The Witch of Webs

The Witch of Webs is Book Twelve of pirateaba's The Wandering Inn. Emperor Laken Godart's Unseen Empire is at peace and prosperous, but a coven of witches has descended on his capital, Riverfarm, seeking a bargain — led by Belavierr, the ancient and unsettling Witch of Webs, mother to Laken's own General, the [Witch] Wiskeria. As Ryoka Griffin, the Wind Runner, grows fascinated by Belavierr against every warning, the witches' old ways and older magic put the Empire, and everyone in it, at risk. At 1,700-plus pages, it is pirateaba writing at the scale the long-running LitRPG series has been building toward: dense with political texture, character interiority, and folklore rendered with genuine menace.