Liane the Wayfarer is a science fantasy short story by American writer Jack Vance, the fourth in his The Dying Earth series.

[1] A vain, overconfident, utterly amoral adventurer who calls himself Liane the Wayfarer is traveling through the forest, contemplating a magic ring he has just found.

It was stolen by a man or monster named Chun the Unavoidable, who hung it in a marble temple in the ruins of the ancient city of Kaiin.

Liane spends the next night in an inn in the civilized section of Kaiin, where the guests demonstrate magical wonders to one another.

Liane finds the tapestry in the temple, but when he pulls it down, Chun is directly behind it, wearing a robe studded with human eyeballs.