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Ok so im re-listening to the series. Currently on witch of webs.

Jelequa is currently enjoying the company of another.

There is a scene where Moore asks seaborn if what they do is natural?

So obviously doesn't describe what the have been doing but got me thinking.

It occurs to me that the selphids natural body omissions mobile about the body.

Soooo could she move her natural body into her host bodies openings and bring her natural body into use?

Thus negating the lack of sensation from dead nerves and actually having sex her self?

(spoilers for Macbeth)
Just finished listening to Hell's Warden, which is the final audiobook of Volume 6, if I'm not mistaken. (I have only consumed this series via Audiobook, I am currently on chapter 4 of Garden of Sanctuary Audiobook)

At the beginning of volume 6 the story shows Geneva introducing the world to C-Sections, something that wasn't done until then, however during the Interlude - Players of Celum, it's discussed that Macbeth is one of their best plays, yet I can't seem to wrap my head around the fact that one of the biggest plot points IN Macbeth is that the Witch's prophecy is "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth", and is killed by Macduff, someone who was born via C-Section, thereby fulfilling the prophecy:

How does Erin convince the players the validity of the story of Macbeth, and how do the Players of Celum translate that to their audiences, if C-Sections are not a thing in this world, and introduced to it by Geneva on another continent?

If this is resolved in a later volume. I do not mind if you spoil me because this is actively taking up space in my brain thinking about it and I'd rather get a resolution on this.

I was prepared for the voices to change going into book 16, and I'm sure i will eventually get used to the new voices (except for my poor Niers), but does the speaking pattern improve at all? Theres a lack of inflection and intonation so far, which makes it read like this is a highschool kid called on to do a class reading.

I'm still only a few chapters in so I'm hoping Erin hits her stride. The voices just feel flat and lack any real emotion, and some sentences just feel awkward. It's hard to immerse myself in the story. Does it improve in the later books?

Up to Volume eight and I have start to notice alot of the original main cast getting sidelined and becoming Bums.

Magnolia, Numbtongue, Relc, and Kilb... Who else falls under this umbrella?

When Erin finally posts her legendary quest, who do you think will attack Roshal? I can see the demons, Floss, Khelt, released slaves, and Magnolia sending armies there.

Who do you also think would attack Roshal?

I just finished the 18 wandering inn audiobooks and then the three from the singer series and the most recent update I can find on the fourth book is from this subreddit from a year ago. Any update since then on the fourth book?

Additionally, I love Erin Bennett as a narrator but hearing Andrea Parsneau in this series was like hearing the voice of an old friend again.

There will likely be some mild spoilers in the comments so read with caution!

Is the Duck (the selfid Mind) a reference to the wandering inn fans? Also a few chapters earlier when the Unicorn said to Ryoka that certain ducks fly faster than her was that also a reference to how we name ourselves.
It just seems like there are other land based birds or even non bird animals that could work for both cases. Was this intentional?

Just what the title says

we started as goblins which is fine, cool that works new story goblins aren't evil it's subversive it's well written i'm invested.
crazy new revelations and improvements to their QoL happening in every volume i'm with it.

then we get antinium which also works coz it's relatively organic and a "shock" in terms of finding out this supposedly hive mind species is all just full of naive babies.
they're gradually growing up and i'm invested in seeing all the different variants and storylines and whether they make it back to rhir.

next the gnolls which is more of a species in decline but still you can have sympathy for their struggle to keep their place in the world.
i don't really care about them apart from specific characters, seems like they kinda deserve to decline coz what's the point of a nomadic species that is too weak to hold their land.

onto the demons which tbh i don't understand at all, just fucking leave guys teleport out be guerillas be pirates why are you fighting this insane king in rhir in a land war like just leave seems like you guys are punching your nuts for no reason.
i don't care about these peeps at all, every chapter reading about them further reinforces how insane and pointless their worldviews/struggles are.

then we have the djinn who were genocided long ago and are perma slaves coz of systemic issues very sad kinda unfixable.
cool from worldbuilding perspective but like...how do i empathise with a being made of magic. you'll figure it out guys.

sariant lambs? very cool i like reading about their struggles. very "humanity fuck yeah" if you read those kindsa stories aka a species of pure grit and determination.
i'm rooting for them to kill the system and get leveling.

vampires. eh, i have read and watched too much vampire fiction to care. inherently too dangerous to be allowed to live. just stake them all and let the gods handle them.
** lucifen/agelum** - kinda sad but like gnolls, it's obvious they died out coz they don't have a purpose in innverse anymore.

giants - big, very cool. wish we could see more about them instead of vampires.
every time i read an ability description that was clearly designed to kill them i get sad.

turnscales - maybe it's coz i'm aggressively hetero myself but i don't get the chapters about them, they seem to be treated like they have red color skills for no apparent reason but also simultaneously are super fatalistic about changing public perception of themselves.
i do read their chapters and sympathise even if i think it doesn't make sense in a worldbuilding perspective.

if there are any other persecuted minority groups not in this list i care so little about them i have memory holed them.

I'm on volume 5 at the moment, about 2/3 through in a section with the Half-Seekers and Gryphon Hunt, and I keep thinking about dungeons following their conversation about the different "dungeon types".

They've spoken about how dungeons attract monsters through their magical auras, and how they generate danger, reset traps, often reshuffle their interiors, and some dungeons have had people diving into them for years and years to find loot in deeper and deeper parts of the dungeon.

My question is; are dungeons purely kept around for adventurers to use to level up, and the subsequent economic benefits to nearby towns and cities? Or are they kept around as historically important the same way in our world ruins are preserved to study? Because if they're kept around because people want to get at the loot they contain surely there are much more efficient ways to get to that loot. It's especially perplexing to me especially when thinking about the Antinium considering they're such capable builders / construction workers. If the dungeon is posing such a threat to their hive, why do they not start at the surface, excavate AROUND the dungeon, and just descend disassembling it room by room as they go?

You wouldn't get backed into a corner, you could always retreat into open space or to behind the walls of a nearby city. Parties of adventurers could establish camps around the perimeter and just turn it into a matter of containment. The risk posed by traps would be way less. Stuff wouldn't respawn and reset because it wouldn't have anywhere to do that.

I can't help but think you'd be able to 100% a dungeon and get everything inside it if you just erased it top-down with a massive construction team over a long period, pocketing all the loot as you went.

Niche for a new "Dungeon Demolitionist" class maybe?

I'd love to know more about the magical aura of a dungeon though. Would the aura be dispelled as the structure was taken apart? Would the magic linger in the building material like bricks and stone blocks? What would happen if a dungeon was deconstructed, and the building material utilised for expansion or maintenance of the city? Would the city start showing weird dungeon characteristics?

I know that there's a lot of pretty loose worldbuilding, but I do actually love the fact that it makes me think about all of the unanswered questions and implications of things!

I am currently waiting for end of the month for the next kindle book of TWI to be released and was hoping to get recommendations on anything somewhat similar to read until then. Preferably also available via Amazon and on the kindle. Thanks in advance!

Hi all!

Stumbled onto this MASSIVE series on audio this week.

Only on book one and I’m already intrigued.

I have stage 4 CRC so I’m looking for an audio series that will not only keep my mind busy on chemo infusion days, but on the off days to keep the brain Goblins from giving me dark thoughts.

Looks like I found it!!

As much as I love the inn world, I hate that Erin has become interludes and side character than the main protagonist. My heart aches for more Erin stories.