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[The author is on break until January 17th! Have good end to your year!]   —The Brass Dragon awoke with sweat on his scales. His head rose, and he looked around. “…Is someone there?” He gazed towards the entrance of his cave, and the young woman… …Wasn’t there. Sleepily, Teriarch’s head rose higher, and he […]

[The Wandering Inn store is having a Solstice sale! Check it out here!]   (Trial of the Alchemist, a mystery-fantasy by Trevor Melanson, is coming out free on Royalroad! Check it out here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/61221/trial-of-the-alchemist-mind-bending-mystery-fantasy)   On the day of the tournament, the <Heroic Quest> in honor of Zeladona, the [Blademistress of Ancients], everyone agreed on […]

[This chapter is 45,000+ words long. Consider breaking it up into chunks. Unless you’re snowed in some airport or something. It may need to last you a month once I go on my year’s end break.]   In the morning, Hethon Veltras was blowing on his fingers as he emerged from a frost-coated tent and […]

This is a story about [Drivers]. At least, in part. They took many forms. Sometimes, they were just [Wagon Drivers]; other times, they were more magical and didn’t actually need horses. They just teleported cargo like the bored [Dockmaster] who did all the actual loading and unloading in Fissival’s Teleportarium. Sometimes—they were the kind of […]

It was one thing to be old. Another, to be the last of something. The Last Dragonlord of Flame was still sleeping day after day when a visitor came to his cave. They passed through the High Passes warily, but with some wisdom, having seen it before. The trick was to not attract attention. Once […]

It had been a long time since Nuvityn, King of Men, Elfwed, Leader of the United Peoples of Erribathe, Descendant of the Hundred Families, heir to the Shrouded Crown and the relics of his ancestors, walked the halls of his palace as an observer and not an occupant. He had other names, other titles accorded […]

(Gravesong is out now on Yonder! Read the first part of the book here!)     Some days, he still dreamed of it. Though it had not been long ago and though he had never learned to control his dreams—the man thought it came upon him like a blessing, a vision. He regretted it. Though […]

(Gravesong is out now on Yonder! Read the first part of the book here!)     The names of the dead began to ring across Izril. Such old names, they provoked echoes. In the new colony of the half-Elves, Zedalien, formerly in service to Maviola El, raised his head. The white-haired half-Elf was watching the […]

[The Merch Store is having a Black Friday sale! Buy stuff here!] [The Blood of Liscor, Book 8 is out on Audible and as an e-book! Find it here!]   Thereafter, for a short while, as with every single time, they took a break. It was not that the days got less busy. If anything, […]

[Join a free gift raffle for Blood of Liscor, the next book on Audible! Open until the 22nd of November for USA residents only.]   (The author is on break until November 26th! I’ll be going to things. Like a wedding. Wish me luck and rest!)   Monsters. They never left. They were never gone, […]

Adventurers in Albez, digging. Adventurers in Liscor, tossing skeletons into the chasm. Adventurers everywhere. However, it wasn’t all about them. While they were up and spending every waking moment in search of treasure, the party that Lyonette had started was still going on in multiple cities. More than three days had passed—this was the seventh, […]

“When did it happen?” “What happen?” He leaned on the pommel of his horse’s saddle. A rich saddle, high-backed and made for long-distance riding. Padded subtly, and enchanted so you had even less chance of slipping during a ride. All the things he didn’t want to show the youngsters. All the things he had never […]

(Author’s Disclaimer: The numbers contained within this chapter are entirely based on one person’s perception and have no necessary connection with reality.)   It was one thing after another, these wild days. It proved the Gnolls were right. They always were when the wind changed. More than [Historians], more than [Kings] and nations—Gnolls had successfully […]

(Trigger Warning: See the link here for details.)   Now you saw it. All the little lies added up. The face staring back at you through the mirror changed. It might be you, that pointed nose, the irises like cat’s eye stone, light brown and sometimes piercing. A fitting stare for a dedicated student, someone […]

Trigger Warning: See the link here for details.   Geneva Scala dreamed of the past, some days. She knew, then, she was in a memory. They called it ‘lucid dreaming’ on Earth, and the [Doctor] had, privately, always thought it was a hoax. Despite people claiming to be able to control their dreams, it bordered […]

(The Wandering Inn survey has a statistics page! Check it out here!)   When she woke up in the inn, Mihaela Godfrey felt like a young woman for the first second of every morning. In that brief moment—it felt like the inn hadn’t changed from when it first opened. Which was silly because it did […]

[The Merch Store has Halloween-themed merchandise! Like this mug! Check out the store here!] [Book 8, Blood of Liscor, is coming out on Audible and as an e-book soon! Here’s the pre-order page!]   (The author is on break until October 25! Are you getting tired of announcements? Are you clicking on the links?)   […]

There was something bittersweet about seeing them coming out the garden to cheers. Together, the [Innkeeper] and the Goblin. And the bee, but she didn’t count. Niers noticed, of course, but only because Apista was flying. He stared blankly at her. “Is that…fire? And here I was going to send her a leg. And a […]

[Andrew Rowe has come out with Book 4 in his series, Arcane Ascension! Silence of the Unworthy Gods (great title, we’re on the same page), is out now! Check out the book and series here!]   In Baleros, there is a [Doctor]. Her name is Geneva Scala, and she needs to be found. She is […]

As they drove away from Riverfarm, Erin was napping. A little witch curiously watched her face as Erin dropped off. One moment, she was full of energy, talking about her [Garden of Sanctuary] and promising to show Nanette around—the next? She quietly fell asleep. Or rather, began dozing. She began murmuring and nodding along to […]

For the daughter of a legend, Wiskeria’s eyes were too normal. They were yellow and green, the two colors separate, not some blend of the two, and quite resembled a plain field of grass and daffodils on a sunlit day in nature. Compared to her mother’s gaze—well, all Erin Solstice knew were stories. Numbtongue had […]

[I wrote an essay because…because. Check it out here. https://stagewandering.wpenginepowered.com/essay-ais-and-the-future-of-writing/]   Some day, huh? What were you supposed to do after meeting a Dragon? Cold shower, lots of cuddling with significant others? Talk with friends and make sure you hadn’t gone crazy? The funny thing was that the instinct to run around in the streets […]

Now, the Dragonthrone. They called it different names, those Humans who had never looked upon a Dragon’s face except set in stone, captured in some snarling mural where their only purpose was to be a beast, mentor, or companion to Humans or other species. That was not the fault of later generations. Every species told […]

The life of an average citizen in Terandria was said to be better than most Izrilians, Balerosians, Chandrarians, and especially Blighted Kingdom citizens. Not because their levels were higher or any nation was more magically or technologically advanced, but because Terandria, as a continent, was safer. As a Human-dominated continent, the interspecies wars, such as […]

[I am on break until the 20th of September! Also, Blood of Liscor, Book 8 of The Wandering Inn is now available for pre-order on Audible!]     Archmage Valeterisa Imarris of Izril had met with the children of Earth briefly to understand their world and witness one of the great phenomena occurring in the […]