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It started with decorations. As with every city, the Watch had places where the [Guards] liked to be posted. Places where you got less trouble, free food, or just a breath of fresh air. In every city, there were the good streets and bad streets. Good positions awarded to a [Guard] in need of an […]

(The Last Tide graphic novel will be coming out in August! More details in the Author’s Note below and on the page here. Also, the author is on break until June 23rd for Patreons, the 27th for Public readers!)   Wistram Academy had endured since time immemorial. It had been occupied, knelt to foreign kingdoms, […]

[Spearmaster Level 36!] [Skill – Recall Weapon: Spear obtained!]   [Guardsman Level 17!] [Skill – Eyes In The Back obtained!]   The Drake opened his eyes as the sun hit his head. Sometimes the announcement came in the mornings. If he fell asleep and it didn’t wake him up, it lingered in his mind. Like […]

To those who knew him, Archmage Viltach was known as ‘The Archmage of Terandria’. A curious title—but people would refer to him as the Terandrian Archmage and others would know what they meant. Not the ‘Human Archmage’, because there were three out of the seven. Six now, and only two Humans if you took into […]

Soccer. What a repugnant little word. Football, the sport of sports, was spreading across the world. You couldn’t put the Djinni back into the bottle. And you couldn’t get a Dragon in a bottle in the first place. The point was that the world changed with a game of kick-the-ball. Because, as scholars had observed—the […]

In Rhir, Tom the [Clown] was a [Hero]. Two classes of arguably different natures. Although he would call them the same. He was mad. Laughing, sequestered in his room when not killing things. And beloved. Beautiful women threw themselves at him. People had copied his face paint. He, more than the others, was an icon […]

(Volume 2 of The Wandering Inn is now available for preorder on Audible!)   The Dragon slept in his cave. It was not—unusual. Sleeping Dragons were part of myth and legend. It was only when they woke up that trouble started. Usually. Sleepwalking Dragons were their own set of problems. Or they had been. The […]

(Volume 2 of The Wandering Inn is now available for preorder on Audible!)     One Week Ago.   If you got the invitation, well, that wasn’t anything special. If you attended—that meant something. But not much. If attendance was a sign of complicity, then at least a quarter of Izril’s nobility were guilty. But […]

(The story is now on break until May 23rd! May 26 for Public readers.)   A new day dawned. And with it, a [Princess] rose from her bed. An [Innkeeper] rolled out of her bed and onto the floor. A Hobgoblin [Bard] yawned, checked the sun, and put the pillow over his head. A white […]

Warning: If you are upset by narratives involving consent, please skip this chapter.   For the brave, the dreamers who yearned to see that which no one had ever seen before, another world was a dream. Earth had so few places left that were unexplored. And of them—they were the depths of the sea, crevasses […]

It was so hot. A burning, all-consuming heat. Teresa Atwood gulped water, but it did little to quench her thirst. She felt as if she couldn’t cool down. Her blood was racing. And her heart wouldn’t calm down. The young woman kept drinking. And then she threw up. The water she’d gulped down so fast […]

“We have a new enemy. A name, among the countless species. Magnolia Reinhart.” Xrn spoke calmly to the images of the assembled Queens. Her voice was controlled, but her eyes belied her true state. Darkness crossed each of the colors. Black fury. Klbkch stood by Xrn’s side. Marveling. Not at her, or the unrest of […]

In the darkness, there was fire. And fire, that elusive, dangerous thing, was brightest as night fell around Invrisil. It was a horrible thing. It could burn the land to ash. But it was also essential. And it was at its most beautiful when the shadows closed in. Fire. A contradictory thing. It blazed in […]

“…Yerra?” The question lingered. And that moment, the culmination of an adventure at sea, and the powers that claimed they ruled the waves clashing—all of it ended. Or took an interlude. Until the next time the world deemed the events worthy of notice. And many who heard the question, whether directly from the scrying orb […]

(I will be taking part in an online panel on r/Fantasy on the 23rd of April! Find out more here!)   “The Diamond Swords of Serept. One of the true relics of this world. Six blades, each forged by Serept of Khelt. A [King] beyond mere mortal [Kings]. He reigned for three thousand years before […]

(I will be taking part in an online panel on r/Fantasy on the 23rd of April! Find out more here!)   As was his wont, Niers Astoragon was taking private time for himself, rather than moving from city to city to conduct surprise inspections, or managing his company, teaching his students, or the thousand and […]

The irony was that there was nothing malicious in it. If anything, it was just…tiresome. A necessary task, born out of a mother’s love. She wasn’t even good at her task. Belavierr paused as she strung the glistening red thread made of living sinew through the air. She stepped back to regard her work. And […]

(MouthyMaven (Andrea Parsneau) is recording The Wandering Inn’s Volume 2 audiobook on her server! You can check her out, but be warned–it’s live recording, mistakes, swearing, and all! You can find her server here, as well as times when she records!)   It turned out that summer was hot. Not just in temperature, but…hot. The […]

(The author is taking a break! The Wandering Inn will resume updating on April 11th for Patreon readers. April 14th for Public readers!)   Frustration. Black despair. Rage and helpless…loss. The memories came more frequently, now. It was easier looking into a void. But seeing fragments, incomplete, broken reflections of what had been was far […]

(Two new banners at the top of the stite by Raoul Corella! The inn in spring and winter! Look out for them here and here! Or refresh the page a few times. Big thanks to him!)   It was a love story for the ages. A young [Lord] and [Lady], specifically, Lord Bein of the […]

How…disgusting. All of it. That was their only thought. Profound, absolute disgust. At all of it that happened. Before. And presumably after. This world deserved to burn. It was filled with useless, worthless, squishy things. And they did squishy, stupid things. Let it vanish. Let all things end. But wishes…they never came true. There was […]

*Warning. This chapter contains sexual content and graphic depictions of sex in the text. If you do not wish to read, or feel uncomfortable at the material please skip this chapter. You may miss terribly important and crucial plot points, but this is your choice.   A long time ago, when Erin Solstice was still […]

The Horns of Hammerad sat in a bar. A bar. Not an inn. Or a tavern. Or a dive, or a hellhole, or a pub. A bar. There were differences. They were covered in dust. Stone dust, mixed, mostly limestone but differing in color and consistency. They’d tracked it in, but no one was objecting. […]

Teriarch woke up from his nap. Not because he needed or wanted to; he’d have happily extended the well-deserved rest after the battle with the Wyverns. Rather, a loud, peeping alarm began making noise. An…iPhone began shrilling loudly. The Dragon, sleeping, rolled over. He irritably began to wake, but he might well have just smashed […]

The day after a big party was silence. The Wandering Inn, like the flames that had roared in the fireplaces, was burnt out. All the energy was expended. Even in the [Innkeeper] herself, who defined the inn. Erin Solstice had woken up on the floor. She’d migrated into a bed—mainly by rolling sideways until she […]