7.23 LM
Added 2020-05-13 03:10:27 +0000 UTCThe last chapter before my break! See you in a week! (27,200 Words)
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I really like how you juxtaposed how the Lady's skills can be completely good (the Spider) then how the hey run rough shod over people & places (how rude!) big (Liscor) or small (Pryde coming back for round two). Very glad for the character of Lady El -- to balance off the big three & fix the Olesm situation. :( I'll miss her when she flames out.
Beth Rasmussen
2020-05-27 17:17:13 +0000 UTCSupposed to be today on patron, and the 26 for the public release
Jack Trowell
2020-05-23 05:31:04 +0000 UTCWhen is the next new chapter out?
Curtis anthony Moerike
2020-05-22 01:49:31 +0000 UTCI'm confused because I thought the break started when the chapter released on patreon. Thus my week of anticipation is in fact 11 days.
John Coke
2020-05-21 06:47:00 +0000 UTCThat moment where you are excited because Saturday is 2 days away
Amaranthy
2020-05-21 06:29:45 +0000 UTCI'm just glad that Erin seems to have finally realized if she wants her hug bubble to keep existing she'll need to actually leverage her personal power and the connections she's made with purpose instead of whimsy.
Kale Daley
2020-05-21 00:21:31 +0000 UTCYou're not completely wrong, but Lyonette is basically a child as well. She's a teenage runaway that was overwhelmed with what she faced at home. In her dynamic with Erin, she might come across as the more responsible and stable one, and she's standing in as Mrshas mother, which makes her appear older, but from the POVs, I do think it comes across that she's still unsure of herself, often defaulting to going for the opposite of what she thinks her parents/family expect of her. I don't think the Pawn-Lyon-Romance is that far fetched.
m2wester
2020-05-20 20:04:12 +0000 UTCTheir relationship aside, if you are seeing Pawn as having the mind of a child, we are reading the story very differently.
KDP
2020-05-20 19:57:04 +0000 UTCMe too, the shakes are getting worse 😵😳😵😳😵
T34Z0MB13
2020-05-20 05:03:43 +0000 UTCOf course, I could just be grasping at straws and imagining a pattern that doesn't actually exist. Like seeing shapes in clouds.
Dikfor
2020-05-20 03:22:14 +0000 UTCGonna throw a thought out there. A lot of these romantic developments have come to be in the last 2-3 months. During that time, many people have been self quarantined. Perhaps Pirate planned for these developments or perhaps they developed due to a lack of social interaction due to the quarantine. I don't know Pirate's writing process. I never watched the streams. Some writers just write, it flows out of them, similar to an actor's improv. What they feel at that moment gets incorporated into the story.
Dikfor
2020-05-20 03:17:33 +0000 UTCGod I hope it is today 🧟♀️
Caanbo
2020-05-20 01:31:32 +0000 UTCI guess the politician classes will have [Charm] skills of their own. A nobles [Aura] might slip thanks to [Greasy Personality]. And classes like [Communist], [Revolutionary] and [Socialist] will probably have skills like [Power of the People], [Anti Aura Field], [Enduring Heart of Freedom], [All Are Equal] :)
lenkite
2020-05-20 00:00:34 +0000 UTCUmm..actually amongst all those people you just mentioned, Drassi is probably the MOST approachable - the others are intimidating or intense while Drassi gives the [Gossip] vibe. Drake beauty has already been described as having human attraction and vice-versa. And flirting doesn't mean a relationship. But yeah, I don't get the Pawn<->Lyonette sexual relationship at all - it makes little sense to me. They should have stayed as platonic friends.
lenkite
2020-05-19 23:56:20 +0000 UTCYeah, but levelling in InnWorld makes the magic of the world give you sentience, independence and implicit class attributes. Pawn's general knowledge may not be great but he has become pretty wise. Not really a child, but more like wise young adult. But the relationship should have stayed platonic. There should have been no scope for sexual attraction there - it doesn't even make sense
lenkite
2020-05-19 23:50:06 +0000 UTCCome back soon Pirate I need my fix 😝
T34Z0MB13
2020-05-19 20:47:25 +0000 UTCI agree with Mrsha. I like lyonette and I like pawn, but I hate them together. Leaving aside other issues, pawn is basically a child. Even now he still has almost no understanding of social interaction, this is basically rape as far as I'm concerned.
Vladerag
2020-05-18 22:52:03 +0000 UTCI'm a bit surprised this chapter that more wasn't made about three ladies walking through Liscor like they own the place. I mean that's an obvious point against Democracy in a world where people are fundamentally unequal. I wonder how Palass gets around lower level senators and representatives meeting with foreign high level people
Kevin Choi
2020-05-17 22:02:11 +0000 UTCWouldn’t you say that running your family while they are poor would be a bigger challenge? Difficulty raises levels
SaintMaceToTheFace
2020-05-17 17:03:35 +0000 UTCLove Lyonette and Pawn's relationship. While I agree some the recent escalation of their relationship (MR2) did come out of left field I don't really see an issue with it. I hope the nuances of their relationship get characterized more so people are less prone to "hate" on them though. In hindsight in might have been better to slowly trickle in their increasing levels of interaction ever since the dance from oh so many chapters ago but whelp what can you do.
DThornz
2020-05-16 09:31:40 +0000 UTCThe POV characters have been around humans, yes. The writer could create a human character or have rewritten a character with the express intent of being a human love interest for another human. The writer could also create or have rewritten an Earthworlder that's studying materials science and engineering. The absence of either does not mean the writer disapproves of human v human relationships or my particular field of study.
Joshua Flowers
2020-05-16 02:36:33 +0000 UTCThe way you worded that made it a bit difficult to figure out what you meant, but if you're trying to say that the point-of-view characters haven't been around humans much then you're wrong. Erin and Lyonette have been around humans since the magic doorway got linked to Celum, which had been the majority of the story at this point. Ryoka has been around humans since the moment she arrived. Trey has been around humans since the moment he arrived. Humans are a minority in Baleros but they still make up a significant portion of the population, so the UN characters have been around humans since they arrived. Hell, even Laken has been around humans for almost the entirety of his own story. It doesn't even matter though, because no one has batted an eye at the existence of Hawk, one of only a handful of rabbit beastmen on the entire continent. Up until the current volume his existence didn't add much to the story. He could have been replaced with an anonymous courier without affecting the plot, so the only thing he really added was the fact that he was a cute bunny-man that liked drake women. If that's a good enough reason for the author to place a character that wouldn't normally be on the continent into the story, then adding a human character to be a love interest wouldn't have been an issue. Especially since they would just be a step through the magic door away, instead of needing a whole backstory about being abandoned by their parents and adopted by drakes. Hawk very much makes the Doylist viewpoint of "the author has been avoiding human-human relationships among the main cast for some reason" perfectly relevant because it shows that the author is willing to create even less likely characters for less story-important reasons.
Ross
2020-05-15 21:36:55 +0000 UTCThe problem with the Doylist approach being used here is that its based off the statement "There are few Human v Human couples, therefore the author is pushing an agenda/personal preference," which is a logical fallacy. The Doylist approach of "The majority of the cast is non-human and lives in a Drake city, therefore the majority of couples will not involve humans." being ignored because the author could have "[just written in more humans]" is a confirmation bias. Emotionally, it is understandable that your preferred high fantasy couples of Humans vs Humans feels underrepresented, but there's no evidence that points to the author being against them or having a proclivity for something that is not "normal."
Joshua Flowers
2020-05-15 19:01:04 +0000 UTCI received an email with a comment someone would have had to spend a lot of time writing, but it doesn't display here. I can't tell if they decided to delete it, or if Patreon dropped the comment since that is something I've had happen to me multiple times. I want to respond to it in case Patreon dropped the comment, but I'm going to be vague since they might have deleted it on purpose. The complaint about me illustrating my discomfort by using a gorilla as an example isn't really relevant. I wanted to use an example from the real world to get people to actually think about what was going on instead of immediately accepting it just because it's a trope they've seen in fantasy stories before. A gorilla is the closest thing to a person with animal parts that we have in the real world. I considered using a dolphin as the example, but a lot of people wouldn't recognize the chirps they make as a form of language. The rest of your comment was mainly because you seem to have a problem with Doylist vs Watsonian approaches to criticizing a story. I don't like using that phrase because it sounds pretentious. But I can give an example to make it clear what I'm talking about since quite a few of the other commenters also seem to be having trouble with it. Consider the first Pride Parade that was ever organized. Presumably the organizers of that first parade would have had a large representation of homosexual relationships. Now imagine that you are reading a story about that event being organized. And then the first relationship in the story is a heterosexual relationship. It's written in a way that makes perfect sense in-story, so you just accept it and keep reading. But then the second relationship is also hetero, and then the third, and fourth, and it keeps happening. Eventually you have to stop and ask yourself "Where are the homosexual relationships? I know that the way these relationships are written make sense inside the story, but I definitely would not have expected there to be no representation of homosexual relationships at all in these circumstances. Is the author doing this on purpose?" If you stick to just in-story, or Watsonian, reasoning then there is no issue with this happening because it makes sense in-story. If you view what's going on from an outside the text view, which is the Doylist view, then there seems to be something funky going on because it isn't a realistic portrayal, and since the author chooses everything that happens in the story you have to wonder why they made this particular choice.
Ross
2020-05-15 14:54:01 +0000 UTCPersonally, I liked the Saliss part. I wouldn't want it to become a huge part of the story because that's not what I'm reading for, but as part of an interlude I think it added to both Saliss and Chaldion's characters in an interesting way. Really my issues with the relationships boil down to three things: First, and least important to me, is that most of them haven't been written as well as the platonic friendships have. It makes them feel sort of empty. That draws more attention to the fact that the relationships are completely ignoring physical attractiveness, which is something that matters to almost everyone whether they want to admit it or not. Second is that the complete lack of human romantic relationships among our point-of-view characters has begun to feel intentional. And I don't like any of the reasons I came up with for why the author might do that. I read fantasy stories for enjoyment. When I feel like broadening my ideological horizons there are plenty of other things for me to read. Third, and what bothers me the most, is that these relationships feel like borderline bestiality. People can argue all they want about the species all being intelligent, but it doesn't change the fact that all the relevant parts are animal parts, and I find that disturbing. I still enjoy the story. And I'll keep reading and and suscribing to the Patreon as long as Erin doesn't end up with Palt. The rest of it I can slowly get used to, but this one I'm drawing the line at. Even ignoring how much the physical aspect of that relationship would bother me, there's the fact that Palt lacks respect for Erin. He is constantly lighting up his smokes in her inn despite her constantly telling him not to. It's not banter or teasing, he's doing it when he thinks he can get away with it. That shows that he cares more about his personal enjoyment than he cares about her boundaries. He cares so little about those boundaries that he won't even take the time to walk a few minutes outside the inn before lighting up. That complete disregard for how his actions affect someone he is attracted to is a huge relationship red flag. And I have no interest in seeing how that goes.
Ross
2020-05-15 06:56:19 +0000 UTCI think you have a good point. As the story goes on, I suspect more and more that there is an ideological motivation behind the sexual aspects that have been added the story. I mean, Pirateaba is still a pretty damn good writer and this stuff hasn't really diminished how much I enjoy the story because I expect it from writers as culturally liberal as she is, so I knew what I was getting into. However, that doesn't mean I agree with the portrayal of prostitution, or Lyonette's pansexual relationship with Pawn, or even the depiction of Saliss as trans. But at the same time it's fine. Ill keep paying her because the world she has built with the hundreds of thousands of hours she has dedicated to it is pretty awesome anyway.
Christian Matthew
2020-05-15 05:15:13 +0000 UTCErin have unspecified problems with romantic relationships. Trey, he is young and actualey an relationship with the blacksmith (human) is set up a lot more than with gazi. The relationship with Gazi in my opinion is closer to 'best friends' beacuse they Trey feel Gazi understamd him a lot more than the oother of the seven. Geneva have PTSD ++. Siri I suspect is interested in Dave but 'waiting for him to make the move'.
Håvard
2020-05-14 22:02:00 +0000 UTCHavard You say that like you're trying to explain something that is happening in a real place. Everything in the story flows from the author. The characters that exist are there because the author chose for them to exist. Who those characters interact with, once again, is the whim of the author. Pirate chose for the characters not to form human relationships, and that is the issue I am complaining about. But you're also flat out wrong about there not being any oppurtunity for human relationships. The inn has been connected to Celum, a near completely human town, for the majority of the story. There were regulars that came from Celum to eat in Erin's inn all the time. It would have been as easy as pie for one of them to strike up a conversation with either Lyonette or Erin and have a relationship slowly develop. Ryoka met that one human courier that gave her the enchantment that broke the mind magic Teriarch had put on her to make her forget he was a dragon. They struck off an easy going friendship based on respect and common interest in running, and if they had continued meeting up once in a while that could have easily transitioned into romance. But before anyone started really shipping the two, Pirate killed him off in what was, even in-story, identified as an extremely unlikely bit of misfortune. There's also the vampire girl for Ryoka. And TWI’s vampires are in the vein of "exotic human", so I would have considered that to be close enough to count. But that relationship is dead in the water because Ryoka suspects the vampire of having "magical HIV". Trey is in Reim, a human city. He occasionally interacts with Nawal in a way that could transition into a relationship, but it never has and his interactions with Gazi occasionally give off the vibe that Pirate might actually be planning for those two to end up together instead. In the UN group you've got Daly and Geneva as important characters interacting with other humans constantly. But even though Daly seems close to his teammate Siri who he's been through life and death situations with, he's really only interested in lizard folk and walking suits of armor. Geneva, well all but one of the humans she interacts with don't have the right level of maturity for her, and the one that does is also the only person Pirate decided should have a wife back on Earth, so he's conveniently unavailable for any human relationship in-story. Even in the existing context there would have been no difficulty with setting up a normal human-human relationship for one of our PoV characters, but Pirate simply doesn’t seem interested in that. And that is what has begun bothering me.
Ross
2020-05-14 20:21:45 +0000 UTCOn a serious note, I am sorry this has genuinely disrupted your enjoyment of the series. With that said, I think the majority of relationships presented thus far speaks a lot about the individuals' characterization. In the case of Lyon/Pawn, Pawn's obsession with Lyon's status as a [Princess] and her despondence with her position in Liscor, leads to her interpreting his feelings in romantic light and displaying an interest in deepening their relationship. Character wise this marks a pretty large milestone for Lyonette's increased activity in the affairs of Liscor, the inn, and her personal relationships. Relationship-wise, and personally I'm not particularly fond of them, Lyon/Pawn feels like a fairly slow couple as it was definitely not a "love-at-first-sight" pairing. While not explicitly stated, I was of the opinion that they spent their time getting to know one another better before moving on to more intimate couple activities. For Kevin, his hitting on Drassi and subsequently quick shutdown leading to him making conversation and fast friends with Bird simply shows him as a fairly open-minded Earth-worlder as opposed to Imani who clearly doesn't find other species attractive. In the end, not saying that anyone has to enjoy or approve of any of the couples or characters' expressions of sexual attraction, it just seems a little unfair to condemn them and/or hyper-sexualize them outside of the explicit and explicitly marked Mating Ritual chapters.
Joshua Flowers
2020-05-14 20:09:40 +0000 UTCSo, on a comical note, I've been around the internet a couple times and I think there's some gross misrepresentation of what people find sexually attractive biologically inaccurate fantasy/sci-fi inter-species romance.
Joshua Flowers
2020-05-14 19:18:17 +0000 UTCMost of the main cast is young, so expecting established relationships is somewhat surprising. Do the pirate and mage living on an farm count? I guess not as they are not large enough charaters. The wall lord Ilveris (I belive that is the wrong name but mobil and lazy). Did have an if not normal then at least drake on drake relationship until the necromancer stopped that. However he is not human so that does not count. Lots of smaller characters in riverfarm and other human cities but again not important enough. So with a cast of mostley none humans or very young humans you are surprised that there are no human on human relationships that have not been disqualified.
Håvard
2020-05-14 18:52:07 +0000 UTCI didn't notice it either until the recent mating rituals chapter suddenly broke my suspension of disbelief on the relationships. Now the more I think about all the relationships, the more annoyed I get at them. Laken and Durene's relationship still holds up, and I think it was done wonderfully, but most of the others now seem ridiculous. Lyonette and Pawn's relationship probably annoys me the most. It came out of nowhere. They had only had brief interactions with each other until one day Pawn was suddenly shy around Lyonette. Then Lyonette just goes "Oh you must like me. And I think I like you too." Then bam, they're a couple. Their interactions before then had no chemistry. They barely knew each other. Pawn has no primary or secondary sexual features, or any of the other physical features that humans generally find attractive in each other. In fact, being a giant bug, his appearance would be offputting to any human that met him. I was letting all that go and just letting the relationship slide based on the idea that Pawn was attracted to Lyonette, but then it turns out that Antinium don't reproduce sexually at all. The underlying biological drives that lead to attraction just don't exist in that species. Attraction, chemistry, a long standing foundation of trust, all the things that could normally lead to a relationship just didn't exist between these two at the time. The author put them together anyways. I can only imagine it's because Pirate decided that it would make for some interesting drama once Lyonette's family come into the story. Maybe have one of those "but daddy, I love him" moments. The relationship exists because the plot demands it. And that is especially glaring because of how disturbing the idea of having sex with an animal person is. Half-elfs, dwarfs, string people, or even fraelings if there was some magic involved that let you and them be the same size when being intimate. These are essentially humans with some exotic features thrown on. A relationship between any of them and a human wouldn't cause me to bat an eye. It's the parts where I am forced to visualize a human having sex with what could be called a talking animal that I find gross. During mating rituals someone mentioned that a girl could be intimate with a centaur if she used some alchemy to make herself temporarally more stretchy. That put the most disturbing image in my mind. Do you even realize what that would be like for the girl? She would be down there, and since horses are so much larger than people she wouldn't be able to see or even touch the "human" half of the centaur. From her perspective it would be exactly the same as if it was just a normal horse getting it on with her. How can everyone in the story, and those reading it, just brush that off? There's so many things I want to say about the relationships in this story, but I've already thrown out a huge wall of text. So I'm just going to mention what actually annoyed me in this particular chapter. It wasn't Maviola and Olesm. That just made me role my eyes. It was when one of the new Earthers hit on Drassi. He was in a room with a half-elf, a string person, a princess, and an inkeeper who has been described as extremely cute. All of them have in-story reasons to be viewed as really attractive by humans. Half-elfs because of their ethereal origins, string people because they modify their own bodies into an extremely attractive appearance, and the princess because generations of royal skills that make sure offspring have the best possible genetics. So this new guy from Earth, raised with Earth's standards of beauty, is in a room with all these gorgeous and apparently available women, and whose pants does he try to get in? The upright velociraptor. I mean really.
Ross
2020-05-14 18:01:52 +0000 UTCHonestly didn't notice until you pointed it out, I'm just unsure why it matters. I mean, is there some Human v Human couple you've been dying to see happen? Do the other interspecies pairs bother you as well? Or just the Human ones? And is it more focused around Earth humans or does it include humans that have lived with other sentient species for millennia?
Joshua Flowers
2020-05-14 14:10:28 +0000 UTCRegarding the eavesdropping I get the impression that the inner council chambers generally aren't guarded and Maviola walked Olsem all the way to the inner chamber. Regular people aren't really allowed in city hall so they probably just put a few guards at the entrance.
Alan McBrayer
2020-05-14 13:27:32 +0000 UTCIf you consider Bethal and Thomas to be background characters then there aren’t really enough human main characters in proximity to one another for human on human romance.
Alan McBrayer
2020-05-14 13:23:25 +0000 UTCIn a world with many *equally* intelligent races *and* with the possibility of combined offspring (whether through magic or not) this seems rather natural to me. As long as it is aligned with the personalities of the characters in question, I don’t see any issues.
KDP
2020-05-14 09:35:37 +0000 UTCReal Ross would let a dinosaur diddle with him. Anyway if anything Maviola seems to be a flamesexual 🔥 I got the distinct impression that either the youth potion has side effects in terms of youths-follies or that she’s literally the epitome of a pan sexual but sees people’s inner flame instead. Anyway if one asks me what the most annoying bit of the chapter was, it would be that some darn human was able to eavesdrop outside a council room during a critical meeting 😂 although she would have enough crowd control skills to do it I guess
Rukshan
2020-05-14 07:56:15 +0000 UTCerin was more likely to break her fist then break pride is unbreakable Skill and I rather not see erin lose that encounter, so its better that lyon stopped it
Ram nevet
2020-05-14 04:16:41 +0000 UTCIt's been written decently for the most part (except the Pawn and Lyonette thing which just came out of nowhere one day when Lyonette just told Pawn that they like each other, and makes no sense because the Antinium don't even reproduce sexually at all). The issue isn't how well it's written. The issue is that it is the Only thing that is being written. The author chooses what every relationship is going to be, and for some reason the author keeps choosing to put all the important characters into inter-species relationships. Can you really tell me that it makes sense that so many of the characters find themselves sexually attracted to what are essentially giant lizards when here on Earth most people can't even see past some burn scars or a cleft palate? Writing takes planning and forethought. If all of the PoV characters are ending up in abnormal relationships it's because the author chose for them to end up that way. There's really only two reasons why the author would chose to make All of the important relationships inter-species. And it's either some vague political point, or there's a fetish leaking into the story. And, despite how much I enjoy the story, I don't like paying for someone to push either their politics or their fetishes on me.
Ross
2020-05-14 02:14:03 +0000 UTCI agree. I love the current direction of the story and almost all the recent chapters have been so amazing.
Will Murray
2020-05-14 01:53:34 +0000 UTCI disagree. Everything so far has made sense and been handled well.
Russell Todd
2020-05-14 01:24:42 +0000 UTCThomast and Bethal are two unimportant wallpaper characters. How do they change the fact that all of the important PoV characters are single or banging animals?
Ross
2020-05-14 00:08:39 +0000 UTCI just thought pryde deserved to be [minotaur punch]’ed and Lyon stopped that. Plus the three ladies were saying how hard it was to contain her acting together then pryde just handles her this chapter. Guess I just hate reading about people being powerless in a situation especially after the last chapter
Mike Murphy
2020-05-13 22:56:38 +0000 UTCTWI has Thomast and lady Bethal. Also, about 50 widows/widowers
Thoseer
2020-05-13 22:45:43 +0000 UTCOh ffs. Can't we have at least one normal human with human relationship? Every single PoV character is either single or in an inter-species relationship. The first couple of times it was a cute story about love beating the odds. Now it just feels like having a fetish shoved down my throat. And this isn't even just a furry fetish, because those people are still human beneath the costume. At the current rate you might as well have a gorilla from Earth get summoned in and start banging Teres. Gorillas are capable of learning sign language and holding conversations with their keepers. That makes them an intelligent species, and since that currently seems to be the only qualifying factor for relationships in the story, why not go for it? I'll tell you why. It's because it's gross.
Ross
2020-05-13 20:44:24 +0000 UTCBackstory is just that, stuff from the past. No reason a character can't change their preferences as time moves on. Otherwise they'd be too static and 1D.
DThornz
2020-05-13 19:57:52 +0000 UTCMrsha was a kid who was just learning how to walk on two feet. Of course she wouldn't like any of those things at that point in her life. And the "I don't *think* gnolls do acrobatics" comes from Lyonette, who wasn't even sure about it, hadn't even seen anyone do a cartwheel before. Also, in that same chapter: >“Easy! It’s not hard, Mrsha. Although maybe a handstand would be simpler. But I bet you can do it. Want to try one on your own?” >Mrsha shook her head vigorously. But after four more slow cartwheels, she did give it a try. Erin and Lyonette applauded wildly and Mrsha raced around, looking delighted. >“You have to learn to do that so you can show Krshia. She’ll be very impressed. Right, Erin?”
Imran
2020-05-13 19:42:57 +0000 UTCWow that's extreme
Cyclic Addict Recovering
2020-05-13 19:37:17 +0000 UTCI keep seeing comments on how people dislike Lyonnette. Hate is a great motivator for getting people to type, so I would like to provide some balance to the comments you are seeing. Thank you for providing Lyon as a character that balances out Erin, pirateba. Lyon's role also has served as a bridge perspective between "that crazy innkeeper" and the ruling classes (literally! did you get the pun? sorry). Without Lyonnette in the story, we wouldn't really have an "insider" alternative perspective of: how would someone with skills in social deftness handle the situations Erin finds herself involved in? What would happen if someone similarly motivated as Erin is, went about trying to affect change in a not-blunt way? Sure Erin has her moments where she's planned ahead and pulls off a heist with her stratagem, but for the large part she is portrayed as a character who indulges in her impulses to affect change on the weird world. Which really is probably what we all love most about her :) I think it's typically hard for people in general to indulge in BEHOLD! MY WHIMSY Thank you again for the forethought you've invested in this story to incorporate so many perspectives. I hope what I've written helps if you ever felt lonely or down by your characters being hated. I've never written a story (yet?) before, but I could see how much pressure an audience could have on a creator. Hah, I say thank you "again" like I've ever typed this out before. My thoughts here were pretty long overdue given how long I've Patreonized this story for. I cannot state how highly I value my contribution to your Patreon because it is so rare and hard to find reasonable voices in the current age that actually want to listen let alone portray *all* perspectives, instead of shutting down everything into dualities, just because it's easier for us to think about things when they are in categories, and hate.
Cyclic Addict Recovering
2020-05-13 19:35:23 +0000 UTCI despise Lyon. She's trying to become Erin. Notice how she's taken over the inn and how she's usurped many of Erin's friendships. I'm still pissed at her entrance a few chapters back when the inn reopened. Every new chapter I pray Pirate writes Lyonette's death scene.
Dikfor
2020-05-13 19:14:44 +0000 UTCIt seemed obvious to me that Pryde was playing the part of the pompous noble in order to get a reaction out of Erin. It was a dickish thing to do, but to be fair if she came in acting reasonably then she wouldn't get a measure of Erin or the Inn.
Alan McBrayer
2020-05-13 18:14:58 +0000 UTCMaviola's half elven butler is over 300. Maviola is a great great grandmother of a noble child so I'd say she is about 90 assuming the kids around 10 and 20 years per generation.
Alan McBrayer
2020-05-13 18:10:37 +0000 UTCWell [Lady] is not that powerful of a ruling class, perhaps the weakest of the noble classes. She has been the head of one of the 5 families for decades indirectly ruling over more land than most kingdoms of this world with over a hundred lords and ladies beneath her. She is also in her late 80s early 90s and it was said way back in book 1 that most people who live full lives get to level 30 by the time they die. Being level 48 isn't all that high.
Alan McBrayer
2020-05-13 18:06:50 +0000 UTCShe likely wouldn't have interrupted if the Terran's weren't at risk. I look forward to more Pryde vs Erin battles as it is good training for Erin. Erin doesn't do much training and research like she did in the earlier days. Though if Pryde can lift 200 pounds with no [Skill] then Erin is outmatched physically.
lenkite
2020-05-13 17:57:10 +0000 UTCI actually like how Lyon was able to get over her greed and deny Pryde's demand to purchase the weights. If she hadn't interrupted Erin the 7 earthers would have died. She actually did a good job of adopting Erin's methods to deal with both Magus and Pryde. Between overcoming her greed, adopting Erin's method of dealing with powerful people, and finally seeing herself in the 7 earthers I feel she has gotten past her bad habits which have been so annoying in book 7.
Alan McBrayer
2020-05-13 17:49:32 +0000 UTCThanks! Enjoy your well deserved break 🙂
Jennifer
2020-05-13 16:46:23 +0000 UTCIs anyone else pissed about how Pryde acted? Barges in with demands and condescension then is indignant that she isn’t given respect. I didn’t like that Lyon stepped in. I’ve been liking Lyon less and less lately as she tries to curtail Erin more and more
Mike Murphy
2020-05-13 16:17:35 +0000 UTCIt has been shown the more you overcome the greater chance you have to level, Maviola is quite old and is similar to Erin in her own way. So it does seem plausible, if anything Erin is the Major outlier in this world. Not even 30 and shes already level 40.
Sunny
2020-05-13 14:37:53 +0000 UTCHave a great break! We look forward to you getting back! 😘
T34Z0MB13
2020-05-13 14:07:09 +0000 UTCGnolls don’t do acrobatics. Mrsha really didn’t like heights, or cartwheels or anything that altered her sense of gravity in https://wanderinginn.com/2019/06/25/6-28/ This was explicitly stated in that chapter. But here she is doing all kinds of acrobatics. Please fix this - I truly hate it when a backstory completely changes
lenkite
2020-05-13 12:34:31 +0000 UTCThank you for the chapter. Enjoy your break :)
Luca
2020-05-13 09:16:46 +0000 UTCI'm glad Olesm is finally no longer being a mopey little drake. Shame about Maviola and the whole 2 weeks thing but I'm sure Olesm will be alright.
Joshua Flowers
2020-05-13 08:00:41 +0000 UTCHey she's only a little under Chaldions age! How rude! :P
Joshua Flowers
2020-05-13 07:57:36 +0000 UTCHoly crap, Maviola is ~300 years old, and she's only level 49? It really puts Erin in perspective.
rtmp
2020-05-13 07:48:07 +0000 UTCThe idea of tending people's fires is lovely. Thank you for it :)
rtmp
2020-05-13 07:44:50 +0000 UTCMavoila is hereby charged with "corruption of the youth[Olesm] of the city-state [Liscor].
SirThomasXVI
2020-05-13 07:04:46 +0000 UTCMaviola's levels do make sense though. The higher level you are the more you seem to need to innovate and struggle to level. We've seen that Maviola does not shy away from innovating and a [Lady] struggling with a declining household is a good method for her to level with.
Atlas Dwarf
2020-05-13 07:00:49 +0000 UTCWELL, what you say makes sense, but I raise you this: 49 is an awfully specific number, isn't it? Do you think Pirate may be planning something AMAZING and dramatic in which Maviola rises to level 50, and gets a capstone skill that changes everything before burning out in a blaze of glory? Maybe, perhaps, and this is just speculation, something having to do with a certain Stitch Witch? Doesn't that sound exciting???
Adrian Gorgey
2020-05-13 06:34:12 +0000 UTCAmazing job!
Adrian Gorgey
2020-05-13 06:31:43 +0000 UTCOmg this was amazing I loved it. We will miss you until next week
Caanbo
2020-05-13 06:22:58 +0000 UTCIt seems like Maviola's lvl is too high. After that discussion from Lyonette about the better the class you have the harder it is to level and the fact that the El family is so poor, its odd that Maviola is such a high level, it doesn't quite make sense. I feel like it would make more sense for her to be under lvl 40 as a Lady.
Kevin Choi
2020-05-13 06:00:15 +0000 UTCThank you! I’m so glad he is getting off his ass
SaintMaceToTheFace
2020-05-13 04:47:34 +0000 UTCThank you and enjoy the break!
Andrew
2020-05-13 04:42:33 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter and enjoy your break!
MrAlwaysRight
2020-05-13 04:22:59 +0000 UTCSee ya! Go rest up and stay safe.
DThornz
2020-05-13 03:11:31 +0000 UTC
