Volume 8 – Page 4 – The Wandering Inn

8.24

May 30, 2021

If you had never heard of her before, well, that was hardly surprising. She was famous, but so were all her siblings by virtue of being born. She was important—but hardly the first son or daughter in her line. In a world where the King of Destruction existed, her fame was very small by comparison. […]

8.23

May 19, 2021

(The author is taking their monthly break! The Wandering Inn will be back on the 29th! The 1st of June for Public readers!)   Ever since Erin had died, every day was like the last. Not the ‘last’ as in ‘the same as every day’, but like the last days ever. The days after the […]

Interlude – Senior Guardsman Relc

May 16, 2021

Hi Dad, Dear Father,   But of course, you could make out the faint charcoal marks. On the actual, neatly rolled-up parchment. A Mage’s Guild [Message] spell would have omitted all of that, and charged ten times what the Runner’s Guild did with their bulk letter deliveries. Twenty times, maybe. Especially for so many words. […]

8.22 HE

May 11, 2021

Ceria to Montressa: Alive. Find Pisces. Ksmvr. Yvlon. Can’t tell where. Teleported. Lost. Chandrar.   Chandrar. The desert continent? How had they gotten there? Where were they? In the hours after the [Message] reached Montressa du Valeross, she tried to contact Ceria nearly three dozen times. She notified friends and family of the Horns, and […]

8.21 L

May 4, 2021

(I am taking a 1-update break, and will be back on May 11th (15th for Public) due to me receiving my vaccine shot…again…which may be miserable. I will update Patrons if a further delay is needed. Thanks for understanding!)   It said a lot about the person that even with all her wealth and gifts, […]

8.20

May 2, 2021

The Horns of Hammerad were dead. Annihilation struck twice. The world ended. No one had even found their bodies. No one could find them. They had perished, doing exactly what they had promised. An adventurer’s dream, challenging one of the greatest death-zones of this era—a true death-zone, which had defied an army of adventurers and […]

8.19 H

April 28, 2021

(The Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is out on Audible! Grab it here! And please consider leaving a review! Thanks!)   As the last of the hopeless adventurers, soldiers in broken armies, careless wanderers, travellers and the lost who had been trapped here over millennia were finally released, their bodies destroyed, […]

8.18 H

April 25, 2021

(The Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is out on Audible! Grab it here! And please consider leaving a review! Thanks!)   He broke the silence not because it bothered him after all this time, but because he wanted to. Because he craved a response. Part of him thought he’d get one, […]

8.17 H

April 13, 2021

(Podium Publishing is offering a TWI-embossed frying pan giveaway for people pre-ordering Book 3 on Audible! Sign up for the competition here!) (Also, I am taking my break early due to getting the vaccine shot and not wanting to be under-the-weather while writing. I will be back on April 24th!)   A little girl lifted […]

8.16

April 10, 2021

(Podium Publishing is offering a TWI-embossed frying pan giveaway for people pre-ordering Book 3 on Audible! Sign up for the competition here!)   Among other things happening that week, Grand Magus Eldavin formally led the censure of the Revivalist party in Wistram, in the process co-opting the loyalties of nearly two-dozen powerful [Mages] in Wistram […]

Interlude – Paradigm Shift (Pt. 2)

April 4, 2021

Sound. A quiet sound was playing. Cara watched. This had all the hallmarks of a real story from Earth. A gentle song, without vocals, somehow managing to be uplifting and sad. The half-Elf was the narrator. Sometimes he walked through the scenes playing on the orbs, other times playing the omniscient narrator. His spells conjured […]

Interlude – Paradigm Shift (Pt. 1)

(Enuryn the [Naturalist] has opened an online store and you can now commission him to make amazing arts here! https://enuryndraws.art/)   The act of welcoming someone else into your home was a gesture with as much possibility and nuance as any other event that might occur in a social engagement. Not that overthought was always […]

8.15

March 30, 2021

(Iron Prince by Bryce O’Conner and Luke Chmilenko has just been released as an audiobook! Also by Podium; consider giving it a try if you’re out of chapters of The Wandering Inn!)   When he first arrived here, he thought it was a glorious adventure. Of course, he’d been confused, scared, intimidated by a world […]

8.14 N

March 21, 2021

Rebecca Brewer, the editor who worked on 8.11 E, has done a Q&A on the Discord server! Read the transcript here. Also, she has done an interview with The Fantasy Inn! Click here to read it!  (The author is on break until March 30th for Patrons! April 3rd for Public readers.)     “If you’ve […]

8.13 F

March 17, 2021

On Sunday, 6 PM EST, Rebecca Brewer, the editor who worked on 8.11 E will be doing a Q&A in the #publishing channel on the Discord server! Join here if you want to watch or participate! Also, she has done an interview with The Fantasy Inn! Click here to read it!   That she could […]

Interlude – The [Rower] and the [Bartender]

March 14, 2021

(Trigger Warning. Click here for details.)   “You should have taken my hand.” He heard it again. Again, and again as he fell. Sinking into the depths. Something denser, deeper, darker than the waters engulfing him. Things in the murk, tugging at him. Whispering. On the Summer Solstice, Luan Khumalo met a stranger. He was […]

8.12 T

March 10, 2021

The old man who sat in a chair in his illustrious quarters was called Eldavin. Or Teriarch. But no one knew that other name. He looked like a half-Elf, although a paragon of one, almost suspiciously flawless from his height to his physique. One would suspect illusion spells, and they would be half-right. Because he […]

8.11 E (Revised)

March 7, 2021

…And then she woke up. The young woman opened her eyes. Erin Solstice sat up in her bed, in her bedroom, in her home with the familiar, bleak skies of winter slowly giving way to spring. The faint sounds of a furnace, the glowing, bright lights of her digital alarm clock were the only disturbances […]

8.10

February 24, 2021

The Wandering Inn is going to be working with editors and holding a contest for paid, professional editors to apply! Please spread the word and find out more details here! Also, the author is on break until March 6th, March 16th for Public readers! See latest announcement for reasons for the delay.     Tkrn […]

8.09

February 21, 2021

The Wandering Inn is going to be working with editors and holding a contest for paid, professional editors to apply! Please spread the word and find out more details here!   The great king raised his hand and spoke a single word. “Advance.” Legions moved. Tens of thousands of bodies, pouring forwards across the ground, […]

8.08 J

February 17, 2021

(Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is coming out on audible! Click the link here to preorder it! Spread the word!)   It was still war. It was always war. And now—in the thick of the third war in as many months, they were beginning to remember. King of Destruction. He had […]

8.07 L

February 14, 2021

(Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is coming out on audible! Click the link here to preorder it! Spread the word!)   “…another defeat for the Dawn Concordat today, after a night-battle we were unable to broadcast. Details are still coming in, but the facts are the facts, isn’t that right, Miss […]

8.06 RT

February 10, 2021

(Flowers of Esthelm, Book 3 of The Wandering Inn is coming out on audible! Click the link here to preorder it! Spread the word!)   The first nation threatened by the kingdom of Ailendamus was Kaliv. The northern-most member of the Dawn Concordat occupied the rocky highlands, even ‘smaller’ mountains and passes leading north. As […]

8.05 I

February 7, 2021

(Trigger Warning. Click here for details.)   Wall Lord Ilvriss collapsed during a routine inspection of Mining Shaft #4 currently in the possession of the Gemscale family of Salazsar. It was, to all present, sudden. One second he was upright, frowning over the adamantine ore recently discovered in this valuable seam. He put a claw […]

8.04 T

January 27, 2021

(The author is on their monthly break until February 6th for Patreons, February 9th for Public readers!)   As the cargo ship approached Wistram Academy, it burst into the sun. It had been raining but a moment ago; now, the [Sailors] relaxed and cheered. They had arrived. And what a long voyage it had been! […]