Now that we know technically a Ward spoiler I guess, it's time for one of my favorite questions!

How does the Maggie Holt series referenced in Worm differ from Pact the web serial? Speculate!

Some of my guesses to get us started:

Mags kills a dragon. Maybe by getting powerful enough backing to charge in and fight it directly, like Blake couldn't do, or maybe by finding a specialized weapon. This is why the Tinker 0 mercenary team Dragonslayers call themselves Saint, Dobrynja, and...Mags.

Johannes is a villain. Not nearly as sympathetic as we see him. The Maggie Holt series caters to children, and someone whose drawback is "amusement park of torture" does not get to be ambiguous. Even in Pact it's from Mags' perspective that we see the worst of his demesne.

Padraic is a recurring villain. Mags never gets her original name back, but she and what's left of the Duchamps take him down. This is not one of her rounds of blood and fire.

Thorburns are pretty OK, but Behaims are awful. From her point of view, Blake is pretty misunderstood. And Laird tricked her into committing murder, then made sure she took the fall for it with the spirits. Meanwhile, she doesn't see the Thorburn family awfulness as much as Blake does.

The series keeps the title "Maggie Holt" even after she loses the name. It does not switch to following Padraic except maybe a few flashes showing what the antagonist is doing right now.

The main antagonist ends up being the Abyss, not the demons. The opening adventure was a town fading, losing its connections in the sort of way that the Abyss might take advantage of if the goblins hadn't first, and Mags had two different close calls with the Abyss during the Jacob's Bell book. I think this looks like it's being foreshadowed as the Big Bad.

She never gets to be epically powerful, despite trying. In keeping with the Ambassador role, or whatever's left of it after Jacob's Bell sinks, Mags meets with some epic beings and is occasionally allied with/backed by one. There's a lot of predicting and balancing forces beyond mortal comprehension, and it's pretty cool. She personally stays exceedingly weak. She may or may not even get a new implement, and definitely never a demesne. Probably a very good familiar, but that's good in a personality and fit way not as in fighting power.

The third round of blood and fire does end up being the same goblin warlord. Mags allies with the Attwell/Fell family, since some of them hold a grudge against the monster that killed Emily's father. She feels kind of weird about fighting alongside a kid, but both she and the kid see it as just that kind of world. It is during this round of blood and fire that Padraic gets found and defeated. He hates goblins. (This book also mentions why Malcolm's last name was Fell even though his father and grandfather were Attwells. It was part of a plot to half slip Conquest's rope, by giving the second son his mother's last name and practice and saying the first child belonged to the father and therefore Conquest but the second was the mother's. Didn't work.)

Mags runs into a few people trying different schemes to make the world suck less. Most of them die horribly. She herself never tries anything very large-scale but has a lot of smaller victories.

She probably visits the old site of Jacob's Bell. She's the kind of person to do that—see Molly—and maybe her Ambassador thing even requires it. Maybe she recognizes Green Eyes and knows about the sparrows.

Anyone want to disagree? Add more? Write the books?