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We have the long-awaited Calanfer chapter that someone was asking for! My brain. It was probably my brain. Also, readers have put together a version of Great Plains Sing on Youtube! Hope you enjoy both! (38,500 Words)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsuIF0PEX-c

https://wanderinginn.com/2025/06/21/interlude-vernoue-pt-1/

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Inky

Thank you for the newest chapter!!!

Jimi Kane

An amazing chapter and it’s always satisfying to catch a glimpse of the Inn not in crisis (and it’s quite the change from the Roots epic to watch Lyonette effortlessly dominate a situation). If more poll chapters are in the offing for the future, perhaps Erin could be added as an option in the Side Stories Poll? At the current pace — a chapter about every six months — her character certainly qualifies and we may even see her a bit more often.

Birdie59

Thank you Pirate!

DocAnthea

Yeah poll chapter kinda surprises me because we've just had 3 Toren chapters which were all Poll chapters and now we're immediately going back to poll chapters? Damn. And I agree, Erin is now a minor side character that appears way less frequently than most other characters so I hope she is included in the poll.

FEANUR

Thank you for the chapter. Surprised that we are getting another poll chapter so soon after Toren. I was hoping we could just go back to Erin/Baleros for a while.

Splutty

"Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, it at least should be organized crime."

Phil Wang

Vernoue? What a snooze fest. Not even Paba can make her interesting enough to warrant a chapter compared to literally anyone else. Even Toren was more interesting.

Magnus

Great chapter! Happy to finally see something about Vernoue and Calanfer. Been waiting for these chapters.

RedInkQuill

The depraved intellect of this barbarous country.

Matt Creighton

This isn't a poll chapter , read the introduction more carefully.

Jimi Kane

I’m well aware that this is a mini-chapter that grew in the telling. I was referencing the poll chapter that may follow the second half of this tale (as described in the post-script, which I also read). And somewhat indirectly commenting on the fact that poll chapters (and interludes and all manner of side arcs) have appeared with such regularity that it’s difficult to discern a main story at all, and certainly not one that has much of anything to do with the ostensible central protagonist.

James

Agreed. Fun (barely) or whatever, I guess, but the opportunity cost... why not Seraphel, the better sister?

James

You know, you're allowed to say you need a longer break as long as you don't pull a Rothfuss on us 😉

DocAnthea

Why not Seraphel? Because that would take us to the forbidden continent/plotline that is Baleros lol. In all seriousness, at this point it looks like we'll get a Baleros PoV only once we've caught up to all other side characters.

Wyver

"Shardele nodded along, chewing on lettuce like a very unhappy bunny wearing mascara" That line had me chortling

Christopher

Leireit was such a hoot. He sounds a bit shady, but I hope Vernoue chooses him as her tutor. This would also move her to the New Lands. “ I do like bananas! Not sure about accepting them instead of gold, but we could work that out….Kisses”

Parker

How is she a side character? The world has been expanded and expanded that can’t happen if the story must always include a main character whose defining trait is owning an Inn.

Jimi Kane

Ummm . . . it was irony wrapped around discontent that we’ve been graced with two Erin chapters in the last 53 weeks? Erin plainly is the main character; I am simply a bit grumbly that we don’t see her more. And I will very respectfully disagree with your broader point. The title of the serial is The Wandering Inn. The tagline for the serial is “A tale of a girl, an inn, and a world full of levels.” Erin is literally [The Wandering Innkeeper]. The vast majority of the plot revolves around Erin, the Inn, and the people whose lives have been transformed by Erin or the Inn. It’s all there in the last line of the first chapter: “Thus, the legendary tale of the Wandering Inn began.” Yes, the world has grown immensely, but — in my opinion, YMMV, and I suspect my view is deemed stodgy but I’m old and mostly retired and have earned some stodginess — if the story is NOT about an inn and an innkeeper then it has abandoned the foundation that made it legendary (both in our world and in the Innworld). That new and different story would be excellent, I’m sure. But it wouldn’t be the tale with which I fell in love years ago. And it should have a different name — Innverse Discovery, perhaps? (And yes, the pun is intended.)

mehmed zepcan

Definitely one of the more annoying characters in the story A lust driven genius who gets bored extremely easy definitely wouldn't be someone I would want to learn magic from even if they are my sibling. And can we just say how rude it is to just keep going when you have company?

Zbogus

Who would you pick for a Calanfer chapter? It had to be one of the sisters

James

I feel like we're getting Rothfuss'd at this point.