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>>19946906
Not going to post an entire spoiler block, so spoilers for Vol 3 or 4 or 5 or whatever.

You posted it yourself: “Calruz was (potentially) completely batshit insane”. However, he was not a crazy guy in a dark alley mumbling to himself and then stabbing some random people because he thought they were aliens. He was organized. He was planning. He was fully aware of what he was doing and the consequences of his actions. Even in my country these are the attributes that distinguishes a crazy psycho who has no clue about what he is doing and a terrorist/serial killer.
And his actions killed many people while he was a leader and he planned to kill many, many more. No court on earth would give him anything but the maximum sentence their country allows. And a strict medieval society like the drake one? They would have had his head in a basket by the time the citizens of Liscor filled the main district to see his execution.

Also, at this point I don’t care much about Erins character anymore. She is more of a plot device. But sure it “fits” her behaviour to protect him. But it only serves the purpose of keeping Calruz alive and the entire drake society not behaving like the drake society.

Honestly it baffles me how anybody can defend this. Calruz is the worst example of the entire novel:
He should have died during skinners attack.
He should have died alone in the dungeon with just a single arm.
He should have died when he was captured by the raskghar.
He should have died during the final fight.
And he should have died when he was imprisoned.

>The Wandering Inn has always been a story about hope.
Ehh. You need consequences. You need tension. But after 5/6/7/8/9 volumes there are ZERO deaths. (And no, some random goblin which stayed at the inn for a week doesn’t count.) Nobody dies. Not Calruz, not Klbkch, not ivolethe. I don’t need Hope when I know for certain everything will turn out perfectly fine.
No, I don’t want this to turn into grimdark novel. But this story is about conflict. About war. Sure, Erin can be goofy in her inn. But the Antinium were planning for another war, the Humans in the north are always scheming and the Goblins are a ticking timebomb. And God knows what horrors are on the other continents. The story would be about hope if these threats are real. But the antinium are suddenly happy normal people. The Human war was bad. But nobody of importance died and everything turns out perfectly fine. And we all know that the Goblin problem will solve itself with Erins naïve worldview and some divine magic bullshit.
That’s the problem.

>As for the Ryoka issue, she constantly gets punished for her fuckups
Yeah. No. At least the parts I’ve read.

Don’t get me wrong, the reason I type all this is because I absolutely enjoyed this webnovel. And I am just sad that I turned out this way.