A lot of people seem to not realize that monsters, magic, and levels would have a huge impact on history, compared to Earth.

Earth has nothing like monsters out in the wild for people to deal with as a constant, extremely dangerous threat. There are plenty of animals that are dangerous, sure, but most will tend not to attack unless provoked. The mere presence of actual monsters in Innworld – and especially the ones that pop out of Rhir – would be a massive destabilizing factor for the entire world. You really couldn’t develop things like railroads, or even good, long-distance roads, because monsters would likely either destroy them, or be extremely hazardous for various transportation vehicles using them. Just the roads, alone, would create a huge decrease in logistics all around. Not to mention trying to create those roads and such in a world that is significantly larger than Earth.

Monsters also mean a large portion of the population is dedicated towards keeping those monsters at a manageable level, rather than doing much to advance society.

Having magic means a lot of stuff that Earth depends on technology for becomes redundant. There is little incentive to make a piece of technology if magic can accomplish the same thing easier. Why figure out how to make light bulbs – and all the necessary preceding technologies – when you can just have magic lights?

As well, just as we on Earth might ask “how can I accomplish X with technology,” Innworld residents would probably ask the same but with magic. They often wouldn’t even think of making something with technology, if magic can be used as a substitute. Especially if they knew such magic existed in the past.

Levels mean people wouldn’t always learn the underlying knowledge that goes into doing something. Get a skill to replenish the soil of your farm? Never need to learn about crop rotation. Have a skill that lets you bypass alchemical reactions? Don’t need to learn about elements, and molecules, and all that.

As the author stated in the story, levels also means that when someone high level dies, anything based around that person can fall into decline rapidly. King dies and all his children are low level? There goes your kingdom, probably. That Archmage dies without telling his golems to stand down? Sucks to be the worlds biggest magic school – and all future mages, too!

All of that combined with near-constant warfare, and it’s not hard to imagine things stagnating for hundreds or thousands or years at a time.

And while I can definitely see historians mucking up timelines quite easily, and generally making an unholy mess of historical records… Innworld has some very long-lived creatures. Some half-elves can live multiple hundreds of years. Dragons can live thousands, possibly tens of thousands of years. Other races/creatures can have similar lifespans. Goblins have racial memories that potentially go back thousands of years (to whatever happened that causes Goblin Kings to go berserk). There are also huge events in the world that have definite, verifiable times attached to them, such as when crelers appeared.

So yeah, some historical records in Innworld are probably not terribly accurate. But there are enough that can be verified such that major events really did happen X thousand years ago, and aren’t just made up.

Ryoka says herself here, they have no unified timeline here, which is the biggest issue. Each era has its own dating system, and cobbling different chronologies together can make any scholar mad, because usually the reference points don’t fit properly.
Ryoka can’t trust even the most impartial “historian” from Innworld, because they consider history as a “story” and not as a “science”. In our world, ancient historiographers have done horrible stuff with timelines. Another example, oversimplified down here: There were a dozen mesopotamian city states with their respective dynasties. Of course ancient scribes wrote them down, for each city respectively. “For the last 100 years, in city 1, we had the rulers: arthur the big, kent and dex. In city 2 we had kings: eric, fix, gig, huh, ili. In city 3 meanwhile,…” and so on.
A few generations later, other scribes still copied the records diligently, in the effort to preserve historical records: “From city 1, there were kings Arthur, Big, Cent, Dex, ruling for a hundred years over all lands. AFTERWARDS, the kings Eric, Fix, Gig, Huh I, Huh II, Huh III ruled for a hundred years over all lands with city 2 as their capital. Afterwards…”
When archeologists dug out the latter records, they were presented with many hundred generations of kings who all supposedly ruled over entire Mesopotamia, in succession of each other(!). Way to distort history with no bad intention!

Yet another way to mess up is intentional, when two cultures are competing with each other about who is oldest. In East Asia, for many generations the Chinese invented more and more mythical ancestors (by asking oracles about the distant past, and later scholars copied stuff and organized these divinations into “history”, believing every word of the “Elders”). At the same time other cultures around China did the same, intent on showing that their own culture was nearly as old and venerable as their Chinese hegemons. Sad thing is, a steaming pile of East Asia’s most ancient history was made up in the middle ages. And 2000 years of Korean and 3000 years of Vietnamese oldest history are B.S. from tea leaves.

So I hope it’s just that: No universally-accepted timeline, mixed-up records, unscientifical history-recording and the occasional undiscovered record-tempering.
5000 years will easily look like 20000 years in such an environment, even in a well-sorted library like Magnolia’s. And 5000 years is still a long period we’re talking.

The dangersense skill isn’t all warning. There were instances when it activated just before it was too late. The skill wasn’t explained too well and, at times, it seems contradictory in itself – just look at the big picture. When the new big dungeon was ‘released’ those who had a dangersense skill were alerted. The question is… is that dangersense proportion with the yser’s power? So, of the warning’s too powerfull, shoudn’t the receiver receive side effects due to him/her/it not being able to ‘compute’, i.e. a full warning from a dragon.. in similar novels is supposed to have at least a ‘freeze’ effect in such events (though, that’s not part of this story, my example).

Also, is the dangersense ‘tied’ to the direct danger or not? If there’s an avalanche, it’ll allert the user, but whst if it’s a dangerous creature who’s pasive and doesn’t project any danger/killing intent ? Also, it was admited that the dangersense skill doesn’t identify the treat, what if there are multiple enemies of different natures, i.e. natural disaster followed by caused disasters?

And so on.

I think this would work out much better in actual volumes instead of a web novel. You would have the entire Wistram story as a side story book.

You could also bundle perspectives into books instead of always trying to keep the timelines synchronised. Make 2 characters the main ones in the book. Then catching the others up in a parallel one.

With the web novel format you get whatever the author is currently ready to write and get out there, so if they are stuck a long side story could hit. There isn’t half a year to plan exactly how the small stuff will gel and perspectives shift.

Look I understand what I’m saying is harsh but I also feel it’s valid. The other side stories are very well written and I really liked them but it just got tiring with all the sidetracking from the main story. Have a set amount of perspectives like GRRM or tell ur readers the game plan. Is Erin just becoming one of many main characters or is this volume just unique?

Anyway, all this comes from a place of love. I really love the Wandering Inn and I would honestly buy a copy of the book if it ever came out. Thank you for everything you do.

Entschuldigung is capitalised in German. Otherwise well done!

There’s a redundancy in your reasoning for the wars, as said in the story there are both continuous repeated peace times and war times in the inn world, wouldn’t having both of such times accelerate advances on technology as you said, with war as a catalyst too?

Besides, as I had known it only took our world a few hundred to thousands of years of war and peace to do so. The long time inn world had should allow for more tolerances for the world to grow.

I do not know much about the relationship between war and technology as a whole. But to point out various of your examples, the Library of Alexandria’s main purpose was to show off the wealth of Egypt, with research as a lesser goal. The library was mainly known for its local cultural knowledge and history recordings. So it was obvious why many foreign invaders had tried to destroy the library, like how the christians had tried to overwrite many of the other civilizations religions.

Also many historians have argued that the islamic golden age was already stagnating or on a decline. Like the roman empire, most of their inventions and discoveries happened near the early times of their age. Many problems were already happening before the mongol invasion and they were losing out to the west in scientific advancement, during the advent age of reason and the eventual industrial revolution.

I have some links for reference here.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-Islamic-Golden-Age-end-and-why-was-the-Islamic-World-unable-to-recover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

I agree with you @TheJabar. I can understand some of Erin’s choices and reactions, but I hope we get to see more of the old Erin soon. Love the story, but really feeling what you’re saying as well.

Well, they weren’t a united force. They were still trying to kill each other.