Wait, I recognise that pointy hat – didn’t he used to be the star of the series or something? Anyway, I guess he just hangs around and “observes” now, instead of having adventures. Good job we’ve got Leerah and Kayd to do the actual adventuring bit, right?

Ooh look, another new cast member! Everyone please extend a very warm welcome to The Drowning King. Maybe not quite fireball-to-the-face levels of warmth like Leerah but, you know, nice and friendly.

Welcome to Part Three! And for a bit of a change of pace, how about we check in on two characters who aren’t Lemrin Spur? We last saw Leerah in Part One and her current employment by The Gilded Delve was explained over here in Part Two. However, her four-armed, sword wielding companion makes her debut right here in this very episode. Everyone wave and say hello to our newest cast member Kayd, Leerah’s fellow employee in the Delve.

Nothing like a nice cup of tea to end a chapter on. Two chapters down, plenty more to go! Tune in next week for the beginning of Part Three! Which – quick sneaky spoiler – switches away from Lemrin to follow another member of our cast for a little while…

Looks like Frain has been having fun too! And she’s made a new friend as well – I guess that explains the “Disguised Royalty” that appeared on the map back in episode 34.

Some people would posit that running away from your problems is a bad idea. But if you have to, then dropping a bunch of amphibians on your problems first and then running away is totally the way to do it.

Hey look, Hobrob’s back! We last saw him running away from Lemrin at full speed, way back in the very first episode of the series. I wonder what new kind of trouble this fine and upstanding young kleptomaniac could possibly have gotten himself into?

I’m not sure of the exact shelf life of fresh newt cataracts, but I’m guessing it’s not very long. Unless there’s some sort of freshness preservation magic going on, I guess. Will this mystery be resolved in an upcoming episode? Um… probably not?

Trying something a bit different this week – maps! A staple of fantasy fiction, but not something I’ve used in a comic before. And are there perhaps clues on the map to things that are going to happen in later episodes? Yup!

If there was ever a Venn diagram showing the overlap between “cool and mysterious” and “very silly” then I think Lemrin would place nice and centrally within that overlap. Although it’s possible that Frain gets to see a bit more of Lemrin’s “very silly” side than the public at large.