The Tapestry (Part 1) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #85

High Rollers DnD

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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0:00.0	Pickax
0:02.0	Pickax
0:05.0	Pickax Welcome back to Althea the Dragon Empire.
0:29.6	Tasked by their ally, Blackwing, an elf of the Faywield.
0:33.2	The party have travelled into the plains and to the city of Vathalian.
0:38.4	Through some clever disguises and deception,
0:41.6	with a close call involving a passing hag courtier
0:44.8	that involved Xanthius being marked by some sort of spell,
0:48.9	the party successfully snuck into the city,
0:53.0	but quickly found themselves with a daunting prospect of navigating
0:56.3	such an unfamiliar place with patrols of unsealy guards and other hazards about. Rowan managed
1:04.0	to convince a local offer them some help who pointed them in the direction of a figure called
1:09.5	the Harlequin.
1:12.4	Waiting in a run-down part of the city, the heroes met this strange being whilst they
1:16.6	were helping out Faye survivors who remained under the boot of the unsealy, and the city's
1:22.2	ruler, a hag queen called Melisari. A mysterious figure, the Harlequin spoke to them in Ilmeran and answered
1:30.0	various questions and offered different bits of aid, agreeing finally to take them to the edge
1:35.8	of the district called the Tapestry, where Blackwing's estate could be found, warning them that
1:41.7	even the unsealy forces are loath to enter it, for many of the
1:45.6	elven mages' wards and guardians remain to protect it. We open with all of you stepping out of
1:56.4	the shadowy doorway that you would step through and finding yourselves inexplicably in another part of the city
2:03.4	a little darker a little cooler tone if we imagine the sort of film grading the dusk side of the city
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