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The rain was still falling as the Lischelle-Drakle family bade farewell to Fierre and Ryoka. Magical typhoon Erannda was still chewing up Baleros’ coastline and provoking sympathetic storms around the world. “But neither rain nor snow and all that.” Fierre looked at Ryoka, confused. The City Runner coughed. “Sorry. Just a saying from back home. […]

(I am taking my monthly 2-update break and will be back on the 3rd of October for Patreons, and the 6th for regular readers!)   The skies, as if enraged as the world was, opened up. Rain began to fall. First in showers, then, with the suddenness of weather, vast downpours. To Mrsha, it looked […]

(A Wandering Inn reader has written their own story, Melas on RoyalRoad! Check it out here and congratulations to hitting the Top 10 on trending, delta201! )   Thereafter. These were the headlines spoken and written in large font across the world. From Wistram News Network and their subsidiary, the Pallassian Times, the Liscorian Gazette, […]

Jecrass’ tired army had raced across their nation and then the border of Medain’s kingdom for nearly a day. They had used every movement-Skill available, run alongside their mounts and used potions to keep both rider and animal alive. They were exhausted. Medain’s heavy cavalry was fresh, having ridden from the capital for less than […]

(The Living Library is an app with a number of interactive stories! A friend of mine, Quill, has finished The Sorcerer’s Tower—give it a read if you’re looking for more stories!) Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.humbletoymaker&hl=en iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-living-library/id1522167504   Vampires were dying. It would be wrong to say they’d been betrayed, though perhaps it felt like it to […]

Serafierre val Lischelle-Drakle was sick. No— Dying. Her father sat by her bed. He had seen it before. He held her hand tightly. Too tightly; he realized he would have snapped a non-Vampire’s bones. He released his grip, but sat there. Himilt Drakle had seen it before. In children. Adults. They passed like this, if […]

Names and titles. It was something, to be known by other people. Be it a local hero or an internationally-recognized name. It was also…strange, to be that person. Named Adventurers. [Kings]. Archmages…few others could understand the feeling. It meant something. The list of names was always changing. And today—a few more names flashed across the […]

(The Wandering Inn now has an official Twitter for announcing releases and sharing fanart! It’s at https://twitter.com/WanderingInn – consider subscribing if you have a Twitter! I don’t use the pirateaba one, but this will be active!)   It began with gambling. Numbtongue was sipping from a cup of Blue Tea while he read the morning’s […]

Then. Ryoka Griffin didn’t know if she liked the Archmage of Izril or was disappointed. Because when she realized how many prisoners had died in those cells—how many intruders…she looked guilty. “I forgot to task myself with monitoring them. Oh no. What an error. And they…starved to death? They would have—without food—oh no. Did I […]

Archmage Valeterisa no longer dreamed. She no longer slept. She was beyond all of that. Or rather, part of her was. She had learned magic. Like those before her, she had delved deeper into the mysteries of spellcraft and magic. Only—in her era, Zelkyr’s creations had sealed the greatest achievements of magedom away. Behind a […]

(The Last Tide is now available for purchase! Please consider buying the comic, and thanks for making this possible!)   The sack of flour was nondescript, but marked by a…city with a tree growing out of it? Erin Solstice peered at it. “What’s this?” “Oteslia’s symbol. It must be what you ordered, Erin.” Lyonette du […]

(The Last Tide is now available for purchase! Please consider buying the comic, and thanks for making this possible!)   “Come here, Cade. Don’t look. Leave him alone, okay?” The little boy toddled back towards his mother. But not without another look at the silent [Marksman]. He looked concerned, but he didn’t cry. He was […]

He had grown up in Pomle all his life. Some of the [Martial Artists] were like that. Others had come from far away. But from his birth, from the time he could walk, into the prime of his life—which included your later thirties thanks to Skills—Orjin had been practicing martial arts. The man knew he […]

“It’s working. It’s…working.” Geneva Scala closed her eyes as the first [Message] reached her. The [Doctor] sagged in her chair, as if someone had drained the energy from her. Relief meant that exhaustion took over. It was actually Idis that got her up to deliver the news. And of course, they had to make sure […]

(The Last Tide is now available for purchase! Please consider buying the comic, and thanks for making this possible!)   Now. The isle was known as Feru’s Paradise for reasons completely unrelated to the present. At some point, it had possibly been a verdant ecosystem, the kind your budding [Biologist]-[Naturalist] and evolutionary theorist would have […]

(The Last Tide is now available for purchase! Please consider buying the comic, and thanks for making this possible!)   Of the emerging forces in the world, the Unseen Empire was a fast-growing, fast-expanding proto-nation. It wasn’t fully large enough to call itself a civilization, yet. But it had unusual elements which were already testing […]

In the way of things, Selys Shivertail found she was bored. Not just ‘bored’, like she got during a slow period working at the Adventurer’s Guild, back in the ‘good old days’ when Liscor didn’t have a single Gold-rank team, much less five. Or the bored you got from being stuck in bed with a […]

(The Last Tide is available for preorder! It comes out in August! Check it out here!) (One of our subreddit mods, Akrasia, is putting on a poll for TWI-readers, like last year! Consider filling it out!)   It began with letters. A letter day—although they weren’t red. Nor did they come in envelopes—mostly. You had […]

(I am taking my week break for this month to rest and recharge after this chapter. I will be back on the 28th for Patreon readers! August 1st for Public readers!)   “Mage-Captain.” The Drake stood to attention and turned as Commander Cirille walked up to her post. At night, the [Necromancer] was one of […]

(Volume 2 is now out on Audible along with a 10-page preview of The Last Tide included! Check it out, and this trailer!)     Lord Hayvon, 5th most powerful [Lord] in the world…allegedly…rode for the walls of Rhir. For the border. He only stopped when the speaking stone lit up. “Lord Hayvon. By order […]

(Volume 2 is now out on Audible along with a 10-page preview of The Last Tide included!)   In Izril, Erin Solstice woke up to Rose screaming. Which was followed by Imani screaming for help. She ran out of her room with a knife and jar of acid as half the guests came out looking […]

In antiquity, the Walled Cities south of the High Passes had been constructed as a network. Not alone. Well, antiquity was a relative term. If you looked, you could clearly find a time when the High Passes weren’t so…high. When Harpies were an indigenous race. When there were more than six Walled Cities. But that […]

(A preview of Volume 2 is now up on Soundcloud! Check it out here! The audiobook will be release July 14th!)   Selphids. The Bodysnatchers of Baleros. Parasitic, one of the most mysterious races in the world. And one of the most reviled, distrusted— Well, not as bad as Demons. Not as bad at all. […]

(A preview of Volume 2 is now up on Soundcloud! Check it out here! The audiobook will be release July 14th!)   Another day passed. And whatever madness, glories, tragedies or acts of fate had passed, the next day the world remained. Well…for now. She woke up in the rolling, bumping darkness and realized she […]

(Warning: Last chapter for Patreons was cut by about 5,000 words. Check the ending so you’re not confused about this one!)   Mrsha had failed. The Fortress Beavers—the last remnants of the Defenders of the Cave—now occupied The Wandering Inn. The [Garden of Sanctuary] was their home. Lyonette had objected; Erin had overruled. The [Princess] […]