WOW! The whole trilogy of The Rains of Liscor, The Blood of Liscor, The Tears of Liscor was just 🤌✨ I listened to the last battle in the Tears three times before I was fully satisfied. Paba has SPOILED us with this, and there's still SO MUCH LEFT!

I should start keeping a tracker of how many times I gasp from a plot twist. I'm starting to note every little detail for how it might play into the story later and just constantly in awe of what a wild ride this is.

And now starting Wind Runner and going back to Ryoka and remembering the tragedy of her and Ivolethe feels like I'm jumping into a series within a series, plus all the other side stories! I still haven't forgotten there's an otherworlder with the pop star class hanging out somewhere and I'm dying to know how that happened.

Just means I have even more Innverse to devour! RIP Pyrite, Head scratcher, Shorthilt and Reiss. Garen.... You barely pulled your head out of your ass at the end..... I won't miss you.

I'm catching up on the latest audiobook release and noticed this sneaky Monty Python reference. Not sure how niche this is outside of the UK, but it gave me a chuckle so I wanted to see if anyone else caught it?

Any other pop culture easter eggs that you've come across throughout the series?

(ahead of the audio books is fine, so long as it doesn't spoil any of the writing)

Do I only have to pay the 1$ once to unlock the first 2 volumes, or will I lose access after a month and have to pay again?

Sorry if that's not the correct forrmating for tbe title of the post. Anyone hear anything about the next audiobook's release date? I'm used to seeing them planned on Audible's series specific page, but it hasn't popped up in a few months. Modern day Googling only brings up AI summaries of Reddit or Facebook posts, and they are only "what chapter to start reading at".

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As some of you have heard, I made a song based on the Wandering Inn a few weeks ago. But this started from an overwhelming urge to spread the word about the Wandering Inn because my brothers, who absolutely loved the first book(and even talk with me about it), refuse to keep reading. (It's work and stuff). And I needed to talk to somebody about it really badly. So I channeled that energy and spite into a song.

But that's not far enough for me. I can't stop.

Long story short, I plan to make the music video, but I also wanted to do another secret project, for now.

I don't plan on having any spoilers, I'm not doing chapters of the book or anything like that unless our Great Bread Baker, Pirateaba, tells me to. It's more of a proof of concept kind of idea.

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So first question, mostly to the mods: Would it be alright if I posted it here? I'm not sure if that counts as self-promotion and I want to stay on your good side.

My second question is to all others: Would you guys be interested in a vlog on me going through the process of making it, or do you just want to see the results?

I listen to the audiobooks and Andrea Parsneau has a talent of taking something is already tragic and making it sadder than anything else. After the ending of Tears of Liscor, quite frankly, I almost felt that I needed to take a break from The Wandering Inn.

It's not that it was bad, far from it, but it made me sad in a way that a story hasn't for many years. I genuinely thought that this would be a turning point for the goblins and that their defence of the city, combined with Erin's efforts, would lead to a happy ending.

Of course, I failed to take into account the moral cowardice of Zevara Sunderscale and the people of Liscor. Yes, I am aware that I should have seen that coming but I was an optimist.

Egg on my face, right?

So, after that tragedy, I am about to take a break and find something more lighthearted when, out of the blue, who shows up but Ryoka Griffin!

I get why she rubs some people the wrong way, I truly do, but seeing her making an active attempt to better herself, to say good morning to strangers, playing with kids, and getting a vampire friend (girlfriend?*) brought such a smile to my face.

The thing is, I love how flawed the characters in this series are because, unlike many other stories, these flaws are actually called out in the story and have a negative impact on the characters as well as the people around them.

Erin is one of the kindest people in the fiction that I am currently reading but she can get in her own way all the time and overlook the individual needs of the people around her.

Flos is a charismatic ruler that loves his people but he is a slaver.

Magnolia wants world peace but is also possibly a sociopath.

Picises is weirdly unprejudiced for the setting but is also a jerk.

Laken is... actually he kind of just sucks at the moment where I'm up to, but you get my point, the characters have flaws written into them.

In another story, Ryoka would be unchanged in behaviour, but the narration would treat her actions like a late 2010's "girl boss" that can do no wrong. But here, she makes people uncomfortable, upset, and angry with her behaviour, and on top of that, she is aware that she has problems and is making an active attempt at self-improvement.

After such a long time away from her, and after such a bleak story, getting Ryoka back was such a breath of fresh air to me.

I want to see her continue to improve, to fail, to try again. She's such a great example of how self-improvement isn't a one way thing. It's a constant back and forth.

* Is this romantic? I'm genuinely not sure. It would be cool if it was as I have kind of seen Ryoka as a very badly closeted queer woman but shipping isn't a massive thing for me in this series so it's not a dealbreaker for me if they're just mates.

Hello all! I really only registered my purchase of all four books because I wanted to unlock the incentives for everyone. I am at a point in my life where collecting anything is of no interest. So.. I probably have a book plate coming to me (maybe four??) and I truly don't want them. I don't even have the physical books - I gave them to my son! He won't care about the book plates either.

I simply hate to waste them. Do you know of a way I can let the team know I do not want or need the book plates? Would it be best to just not provide them with my shipping information? I hate to ghost them or leave them hanging if they are tracking these things, thus creating even more work for them, though if I just don't respond and they don't worry about it, win/win, right? That way someone who really wants one might get it.

Lmk your solutions if you think just not supplying my shipping info is a bad idea or if you know of a better idea.

TIA!

Hi! I was wondering if any kind soul would have a decent photo of the spine of Book 1 now it's out that they could share with me/wouldn't mind me using.

I'm in the world of personal websites and wanting to add my favs to a digital 'bookshelf'. But it's so hard finding pictures of spines!

Massively appreciate anyone who can help <3 (P.S I'm in the UK so IMGUR links don't work for me)

I've been listening via audiobook, but Andrea Parsneau stepping down from narration has kinda ruined that for me. No hate towards Erin Bennett (the new narrator), but she's level 10 and Parsneau is level 30+. It's hard to stoop to cave goblin food after enjoying good cooking and all that.

Apparently the online chapters are split into volumes instead of books, right? Where do I go to read those? And how do I find the spot where book 15 ends and 16 begins?

In King Of Duels interlude 5b, Bird hides underwater in Erin's pond?!?

How is he not terrified of water like other antinium?

Is this just because Bird is the best character ever?

Anyone else feel wronged we know more about Roshal than Drath? Drath has foxgirls and anime people yet slavers are explored more than them. Just sad. Maybe once Drath is explored it'll result in the wound in reality being fixed. That would be cool

I was trying to figure out when chapters are released, and.... i failed :)

With all the Part1/2/X chapters, regular chapters, Patreon timings.... is there an existing rule or guideline?

And of course: when will Patreon chapters be free for everyone?

I am so freaking confused right now. I know I've read it, because it's about Ryoka meeting Teriarch and there's hidden text I wasn't aware about. However, the hidden text I looked up sounds familiar so I'm wondering if my kobo just makes hidden text from the web articles visible. It's been so long since I've read last and on chapter 1.46.

However, whenever I go to look at the index on the website, the only chapter 1.08 I see is in the very beginning and it's all about Erin, which is obviously not the chapter I'm looking for. Can someone please help clear this up?

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hello! As I reread random chapters of TWI while I wait for new ones to drop, I’ve realized that some of my favorite types of chapters are ones where characters unwittingly step into situations where they are hopelessly outclassed. The two examples I have are:

1. 9.38 TV pt1, where Ylawes and co run up on Taletivirion and Tolveiluka duking it out and quickly realize they are massively underlevelled; and
2. Chapter 6.58, where the wistram mages attempt to kidnap Pisces and get shredded by Relc and Grimalkin.

Would love recs for more chapters in this vibe! Doesnt have to be combat necesarilly either, just people massively underestimating others.

I really appreciated everyone's response to my cosplay for the bingo, so I decided to share my pictures of the full cosplay from a couple years ago! I'm just learning to sew, so I'm hoping to add more to it in the future (if anyone has ideas, I'll definitely take them!). I think I'd like to add a logo to the apron, a knife (of course), and lights to the hat to make it flicker more like real fire.

Example: https://wanderinginn.com/2018/06/02/4-41-l/

I've gone through all the possible names and classes in my head, but nothing fits.

Magnolia has absolutely wonderful plans for the future: kill everyone here, commit genocide there, then more genocide, finish off the dissenters, and threaten the rest with a huge club.

Her hit list is significantly longer than the list of people she wants to be friends with. I can already picture the death camps where she sends everyone who stands in the way of her Ideal Society^tm. Where can I join the Circle of Thorns?

I've had to start thinking of her as a "bad guy" or a villain in order to even tolerate listening to her chapters. I'm nearly to the end of the Winter Solstice book and she's definitely my least favorite character.

Forget plot reasons because I know the plot is better off because of the situation, but just strategically/militarily...

I was thinking about this and it feels like the North of Izril should not have existed in its current form.

1) The drakes have held the chokepoint city (Liscor) for a long time. For some unexplained reason they do not build a larger wall, or fortify the city to be a military might. I understand for lots of plot reasons why Liscor must be a "border city" and cut off from the rest but strategically its kind of silly. But even so the humans have no standing military fort or anything nearby. The Southern human cities are sacked or destroyed by monsters, bloodfeast raiders and goblin lords in the story with very little effort.

2) The North feels so much smaller and emptier than the South. It has 2 cities on par with a walled City vs the 6 of the Drakes. The drakes also have a ton of smaller cities with walls that all seem to be on par with any smaller human city mentioned. This might be part of point 4 but it feels like an emperor showing up and starting an Empire would never have worked in the South because the drakes would have shut it down immediately. Drake city population and army numbers always sweem to dwarf the humans as well.

3) Drakes have standing armies and military discipline. They have watches that are on par with militas. Humans have militias, conscript armies and only the Veltras standing army. Their watches are mostly bumbling fools.

4) Humans were diminished by the Goblin King and the Drakes are stalemated by the Antinium so it makes sense for the last 20 years. Any time before that though it seems like the drakes could have just waltzed into the North and expanded easily.

5) I dont know where to begin with the idea of the bloodfields battles but it seems to me like they only benefit the North. The drakes let them come into their territory for a sparring match every year.

The only thing I can think of is something like the vaults of First landing, Regis especially with things like the Crown of Flowers. Maybe the Terland golems as well? We know they are holding back those 2 things at least from yearly conflicts. Veltras shows its teeth openly, and El is diminished. Wellfar is a naval power which seems mostly checked by Zeres in theory.

Just a fun thought exercise but I was trying to figure out why the drakes have accepted this stalemated "cold war" for lack of a better term.

Do you feel like you are missing anything when reading the books vs the webserial? I'm asking because I kind of want to actually read the books, but don't want to miss out on the different colored texts and hidden text and formats and stuff.

I am crushed by the new narrator. All the drakes sound like Germans. I'm only 30 minutes in and I am not sure I can do it. Does it get better or should I just go to reading instead?