The Harlequin (Part 1) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #84

High Rollers DnD

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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0:00.0	Pickax
0:02.0	Pickax
0:05.0	Pickax Welcome back to Althea the Dragon Empire.
0:28.6	Our heroes have travelled into the Plainar realm of the Faye-Wield in order to fulfil a favour to theven mage blackwing. This strange magical world has been
0:40.9	taken over by the unseely fay, the hags and the fermorians, and quickly the party see what kind of
0:48.2	rule these individual creatures impose on the plane of life. A prisoner wagon of captured satyrs led along the road which the party travel on,
0:59.0	and Gruff stands out to challenge these near-do-wells and rescue the prisoners inside.
1:04.0	A quick but intense battle ensues, and the party succeed in freeing the captured Fay,
1:11.4	as well as a fairy who is captured inside a lantern,
1:15.2	who then lead them on the rest of their way
1:17.3	until they reach the end of their path,
1:19.6	and the grand city of Vathalian awaits.
1:24.3	I think I'm going to pick things up with reading out a little something which I wrote.
1:31.3	Oh, here's a little song he wrote.
1:32.7	A little poem which was, it was in the last episode as well,
1:36.7	but I think it's a good setup as we see this, you know,
1:41.4	from your position in the tree line looking out,
1:44.0	you see this beautiful sort of silvery
1:47.4	grey city which is carved into the trunk of a enormous colossal tree that stretches up and
1:57.2	its boughs and its branches form the very sky that seems to form the Faye-wield.
2:02.7	The upper spires, these beautiful palaces, these elven buildings, carved into the trunk itself,
2:09.6	eventually begin to build outwards and down, spilling into the lower roots and branches of the
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