• The point is to make it clear that Vallaki takes itself seriously

Before opening the gates:

• Who are you (Who goes there)
• What's your business in town?
  • Just looking for anything suspicious
  • If the PCs seem doubtful, have the guards latch onto that doubt and drill them
• (optional) What is your relation to Strahd Von Zarovich?
  • They want to filter out Strahd supporters
• Ireena's family name is well know, and she can help with any mistakes here
  • She'll happily present herself to the guards

The Laws of Vallaki:

• Open the gates
• Have the guards give them a rundown of Vallaki law:

Once inside, the mention of the name "Strahd" is strictly illegal, even in written form. Know that even now as I say the name, it is the last time you will hear it within the gates. Instead, if you must refer to the aforementioned individual, you will refer to him simply as, "The Devil."

This noble town holds a festival each week in honor of the resident's general merriment and continued support of the Burgomaster, Baron Vargas Vallakovich. As guests of Vallaki, you will not be required to aid in the preparation for our festivals. However, your attendance and participation in each and every festival is absolutely mandatory for the length of your stay. Failure to attend will be in strict opposition to Vallakian law. The next great Vallakian festival, the Festival of the Blazing Sun, will be held in three days time in the town square.

Failure to comply with any Vallakian law will mark you as criminals to our city and you will be punished as such in accordance to our justice system. If you have any questions, now is the time to ask them.

• Reinforce these laws as much as necessary
• If asked about:
  • the festivals: the guards explain them in the most positive light
  • punishment: only the basics; anywhere between a fine, imprisonment, or in severe cases, execution

Weapons Registry

• Before letting them into town, the guards ask the party to present their weapons for registry
• For each character, a scribe will write a quick sheet with their description, and name as well as a description of all their gear
• One of the guards thinks Elora looks strangely familiar (she's Izek's long lost sister)
• Fake Name: DC12 deception
• Hide Weapon: slight of hand against guard's passive perception
• If caught, guard will just get annoyed and ask for the truth

Inside

• After all this, they let the party in

  This town is absolutely bustling. The streets are teeming with people, far more than you remember seeing in the empty streets of Barovia Village. And some of them even seem to be... smiling. This place almost strikes you as normal. At least compared to the places you've seen thus far in this godforsaken realm.

• The players will probably head west through town from the eastern gate

  • unless they fixate on a specific building, go ahead and skip Arasek Stockyard (N5) and Coffin Maker's Shop (N6)
  • They'll probably be heading to the Blue Water Inn (N2) from a townie's advice, or to St Andral's Church (N1) on Ireena's request
  • They land in Town Square (N8)

This church is dedicated to the Morninglord and named after St. Andral, whose bones once rested under the altar (see the "Bones of St. Andral" section).

Father Lucian Petrovich oversees the church and does his best to raise spirits. Assisting him is an orphan and altar boy named Yeska. A brawny lad with a perpetually furrowed brow named Milivoj (see below) tends the grounds and digs graves.

At night, the church is packed with 2d6+6 frightened Vallakian adults (LG male and female human commoners) and 2d6 equally terrified Vallakian children (LG male and female human noncombatants). Father Lucian offers his nightly congregation his prayers and the promise of St. Andral's protection. Among Father Lucian's nightly flock is a sad old woman named Willemina Rikalova. Her son, the shoemaker Udo Lukovich, has been imprisoned for speaking out against the burgomaster (see area N3m). She prays that her son will be set free.

• Father Lucian will ask Pelanil (cleric) to look into the bones
  • The bones are what offers the church protection
    • St Andral's welcomed people into his home to protect them from Strahd (Vampire Allowance) for so long the spot and his bones (after death) became consecrated
    • But with them gone, the church is vulnerable
  • Until recently, he was the only one who knew of their existence, but he remembers telling Yeska to put him at ease
    • Yeska admitted he told someone, but wouldn't say who
    • Lucian suspects Milivoj
  • He'll show them where they used to be (clear the room first and have Yeska watch the doors)
• If pressed, Yeska tells them he told Milivoj about the bones

• On first entering, read Taproom (N2c) description
• Try to keep the wereravens a secret for as long as possible

A 3-foot-high stone rim surrounds the mouth of this 40-foot-deep, moss-lined well. The inn draws fresh water from this well.

A wooden staircase hugs the outer wall of the inn and leads up to guest quarters on the upper floor (areas N2l and N2m). The sturdy wooden door at the top of the stairs can be barred from the inside.

Damp cloaks hang from pegs in the entrance portico. The tavern is packed with tables and chairs, with narrow paths meandering between them. A bar stretches along one wall, under a balcony that can be reached by a wooden staircase that hugs the north wall. Another balcony overhangs an entrance to the east. All the windows are fitted with thick shutters and crossbars. Lanterns hanging above the bar and resting on the tables bathe the room in dull orange light and cast shadows upon the walls, most of which are adorned with wolf heads mounted on wooden plaques.

The place is lively and homey, filled with the smells of homemade meals and cheery laughter
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• Danika Dorakova usually tends bar while Urwin Martikov busies himself in the kitchen
  • Brom and Bray scamper about
• Between dawn and noon, there are no patrons here, and the Martikovs are upstairs in their bedrooms (areas N2o and N2p) or in the attic (area N2q).
  • From noon to dusk, the taproom holds 2d4 local patrons
  • Between dusk and midnight, 2d8 Vallakians are here
  • In addition, one or more of the following people might be present during this time:
    • Wolf Hunters: Szoldar Szoldarovich and Yevgeni Krushkin are local hunters who frequent the Blue Water Inn. They kill wolves and sell the meat for a living, and their work is dangerous and bloody
      • Both men are grim and have haunted looks in their eyes
    • Wachter Brothers: Nikolai and Karl Wachter are brothers of noble birth
      • They are brash drunkards always looking for trouble, though they are smart enough not to pick fights with well-armed strangers
    • Rictavio: The lone guest of the Blue Water Inn at present is a colorfully dressed half-elf bard who goes by the name Rictavio
      • He regales tavern patrons with stories so outrageous as to be hardly believable, yet he asserts they are true indeed
      • He claims to be a carnival ringmaster from a distant land
      • He's been staying at the inn for almost a month, taking advantage of Urwin Martikov's generosity and good nature
      • When he arrived, he was accompanied by a monkey named Piccolo
        • The monkey wasn't welcome at the inn, so Rictavio gave it to the local toymaker (see Blinsky Toys (N7)).

This hallway contains three curtained alcoves as well as a larger area stuffed with wine barrels.

• The Martikovs store their wine here
• Tucked behind red curtains are three alcoves, each one containing a half-emptied wine barrel lying on its side in a wooden brace
  • Twelve empty wine barrels are piled two high near the door to the kitchen (area N2e)
  • All the barrels have the Wizard of Wines name burned into them
• Nine of the fifteen barrels, including two of the barrels in the curtained alcoves, have the following label burned into their sides, under the winery's name: Purple Grapemash No. 3.
• Six of the fifteen barrels, including one of the barrels in the curtained alcoves, have a different label: Red Dragon Crush.
• The double doors that lead outside can be barred shut from within.

This room looks like the kitchen of someone who loves to cook. It has piles of pots, walls lined with utensils and shelves of ingredients, and all manner of pleasant odors. Two lanterns hang above a sturdy pine worktable in the middle of the clutter. A pot of soup bubbles on the hearth.

• Urwin Martikov is found here during the day
• A cupboard against the east wall holds most of the inn's supply of cutlery and dishware, none of it valuable
• A door in the west wall leads outside and is usually barred from the inside
• {A secret door at the west end of the south wall can be pushed open to reveal a wooden staircase that leads up to Secret Stairs and Hall (N2i)}

• The sliding wooden doors on the west wall of this room are held shut by an iron lock and chain
  • Urwin carries the key to the lock
  • The doors to the north and south can be barred shut from the inside but are usually unlocked

You hear the squawking of birds and the plaintive whinny of a horse as you peer inside this stable. The stalls are clean and well maintained. One of them contains a gray mare. A small door is set into the east wall, and a wooden ladder gives access to a loft overhead. Perched on the wooden railing that encloses the loft are dozens of ravens.

• Any character who has a horse can keep it here for 1 sp per night. The gray mare is a draft horse named Drusilla, and she likes apples
  • The horse belongs to Rictavio
• The small door in the east wall can be pulled open to reveal Storage (N2g)
  • The loft is described in Raven's Loft (N2h)

• This small room lies under a wooden staircase (Secret Stairs and Hall (N2i))
• Hanging from wooden pegs are saddles and barding to equip two horses
• In an unlocked wooden chest are a dozen horseshoes, a wooden mallet, and a mound of horseshoe nails

Dim light spilling in through a pair of dirt-encrusted windows reveals piles of hay with pitchforks sticking out of them. Ravens rule this roost—you can see hundreds of them.

• Characters who search the loft thoroughly find three pitchforks and a locked wooden chest buried under a pile of hay (see "Treasure" below), next to a secret door

• If the characters tamper with the chest, the ravens gather into four Swarm of Ravens and attack

  • If two swarms are killed, the others flee
  • Otherwise, they cease their attacks if the characters leave the chest alone
  • If the fighting continues for more than 3 rounds, Urwin Martikov and two other Wereraven Statblocks hear the ruckus and investigate (in human form)
• A secret door in the back of the loft can be pushed open to reveal a bedchamber (Master Bedroom (N2p)) beyond

  • No ability check is required to spot the secret door, because light in the room beyond slips through the door's cracks

Treasure

• Inside the locked chest are 140 ep, 70 pp, two Elixir of health elixirs of health, three Potion of Healing, and a gray Bag of Tricks
  • The coins are embossed with the profiled likeness of Strahd von Zarovich

A wooden staircase to the north descends fifteen feet to a landing. A window dimly illuminates a short, wood-paneled hallway that runs west to east.

• Guests aren't told about the inn's secret hallway

  • Rictavio knows of its existence because he has heard the Martikov boys opening and closing the secret door closest to his room (Private Guest Room (N2n))
• At each end of this area is a secret door, each of which is easy to spot from inside the hallway (no ability check required)

  • The northern secret door, at the bottom of the staircase, can be pulled open to reveal the kitchen (Kitchen (N2e)) beyond
  • The eastern secret door can be pulled open to reveal a balcony (Great Balcony (N2j)) that overlooks the taproom

A wooden balcony stretches the full length of the taproom, enclosed by a wooden railing carved with raven motifs. The taproom's many lanterns illuminate the rafters and cast ominous shadows on the peaked ceiling.

• The balcony floor is 15 feet above the taproom floor
• A secret door at the south end of the western wall can be pushed open to reveal a wood-paneled hallway (Secret Stairs and Hall (N2i)) beyond

This twenty-foot-long balcony provides a clear view of the bar and has a wooden railing carved with raven motifs. The taproom's many lanterns illuminate the rafters and cast ominous shadows on the peaked ceiling.

• Navigation Shortcuts: The balcony floor is 15 feet above the taproom floor.

• These two rooms have identical furnishings

Two cozy beds with matching footlockers rest in the far corners of this fifteen-foot-square room. Wolf furs are heaped atop each bed. Between the beds, a lamp sits on a table under a shuttered window. Two tall black wardrobes stand against the wall by the door.

• The door to this room can be locked from the inside, and each guest gets a key
  • Urwin and Danika carry spare keys
  • The footlockers and wardrobes are empty and are for the use of guests

Four plain beds with straw mattresses line the north wall of this well-lit room. Each bed comes with a matching footlocker to store clothing and other belongings. A table and four chairs occupy the corner across from the door. An oil lamp resting on the table casts a bright yellow flame.

• The door to this room can be locked from the inside, and each guest receives a key
  • Urwin and Danika carry spare keys
  • The footlockers are empty and are for the use of guests

• Rictavio has a key to this room, which is locked at all times
  • Urwin and Danika carry spare keys
  • The door's lock can be picked, but discretion is called for because the door is in plain view of the taproom below

This small guest room contains a bed heaped with wolf furs, a footlocker, a tall wardrobe, and a writing desk with matching chair. An oil lamp rests atop the desk near a journal bound in a red leather jacket.

• Rictavio sleeps here between midnight and dawn
  • At dawn, he leaves to check on his horse (Stable (N2f)) and his wagon (Arasek Stockyard (N5)), returning to the inn around noon
  • Between noon and dusk, there's a 40 percent chance he is here; otherwise, he's in the taproom (Taproom (N2c))
  • At dusk, he leaves the inn to tend to his horse and his wagon again, then returns to his room to retire for the night
• Rictavio is too clever to leave anything valuable or incriminating in his room
  • The footlocker and the wardrobe contain nothing but common clothes and travel wear

Rictavio's Journal
The journal on the desk is a bit of artifice that Rictavio created to perpetuate the illusion that he is an entertainer in search of new acts for his traveling carnival. His writing makes frequent mention of conversations with Drusilla (which the journal fails to mention is the name of his horse) and recounts many long and tedious journeys by wagon. He has also written about various "oddities" he has seen in his travels, including the following:

• A "werehare" child (a boy who transforms into a rabbit on nights of the full moon)
• A half-orc woman named Gorabacha who could chew through iron chains
• A giant, man-eating plant that had the most remarkable singing voice
• A pair of conjoined goblins
• A small man with no legs named Filmore Stunk, who could drink whole casks of wine without getting drunk

A large, painted toy box rests between two small, cozy beds. Murals of ravens in flight are painted on the walls above the wood paneling.

• Brom and Bray Martikov don't spend much time in this room

• The toy box contains a pile of neglected toys, many of them etched with the slogan "Is No Fun, Is No Blinsky!" The toys include the following:

  • A miniature puppet theater with appropriately sized marionettes of a king, a queen, a prince, a princess, an executioner, a tax collector, a dunce, a vampire, and a vampire hunter
  • A garish toy Vistani wagon hitched to a wooden horse and filled with tiny wooden Vistani figures
  • A pair of painted wooden clown masks, one displaying a mean scowl and the other a frightened expression
  • A wooden top painted with images of scarecrows chasing children through the forest
  • A stuffed (real) bat on puppet strings

• A hidden trapdoor in the 8-foot-high ceiling opens into a secret attic (Secret Attic (N2q)).

Matching end tables flank a large wood-framed bed with a red silk canopy. Across from the bed hangs a tapestry depicting a beautiful mountain valley. The other walls are dominated by a fireplace and a wardrobe.

• Urwin and Danika retire to this room every night before heading to the attic (Secret Attic (N2q)) to sleep
  • This room is for appearances only and contains no valuables
• A secret door at the west end of the south wall can be pulled open to reveal the loft beyond (Raven's Loft (N2h)).
• A hidden trapdoor in the 8-foot-high ceiling opens into a secret attic (Secret Attic (N2q)).

This ten-foot-wide, thirty-five-foot-long attic has a ceiling that slants down toward the west, dropping from a height of eight feet to a height of five feet. Four straw nests cover the floor, and a locked iron strongbox sits against the north wall. A small square opening in the south wall leads outside. Two trapdoors with iron hinges are set into the floor.

• The Martikovs sleep here at night in hybrid form
  • The opening in the south wall is just big enough for a raven or other Tiny creature to pass through
  • The wereravens can use this opening as an escape route
• The strongbox is described in "Treasure" below
• Two trapdoors, clearly visible on the floor, can be pulled open to reveal the bedchambers (areas N2o and N2p) that lie directly beneath them.

Treasure
Urwin carries the key to the locked iron strongbox. The lock can be picked with thieves' tools and a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. The box contains a sack of 150 ep (each coin bearing the profiled visage of Strahd von Zarovich), six pieces of jewelry (worth 250 gp each), and three Potion of Healing.

• When the party gets to the mansion, they should meet Lydia first to get an idea of the extent of The Burgomaster's brainwashing

• The party is led to the parlor (N3b) to wait for Vargas

  • Lydia joins to entertain them
    • She's should be disturbing to the party
    • When Vargas arrives, she only speaks when spoken to
    • Vargas does her talking; what she says is scripted
• Vargas eventually joins

  • he's full of nervous ticks and weird speech patterns
  • meets the PCs only out of necessity
    • If Izek brings them, he pays closer attention
  • be careful not to get on his bad side (he made the strict laws)
    • if things go bad: first stocks, but if there is a scuffle, the consequences go up
    • he will keep sending the guards after them if they somehow run: evil can't go unpunished
• Appealing to Vargas

  • he elates in sharing his belief that his measures work as protection from the The Devil
  • he gloats about the effectiveness of his festivals and his efforts to punish the unhappy
  • he believes Lady Wachter is a source of great evil
    • she's brazenly stopped attending his festivals, claiming thin but acceptable excuses (caring for Stella
    • he thinks she's not only a devil worshipper (Strahd), but a practitioner of dark magic
      • and the cause behind the disappearance of his house staff
    • he hasn't raided her home because of her upper class status
    • so he's desperate for proof of her treachery
      • the players would earn his complete trust if they aid him in taking her down

Framed portraits adorn the walls of this grand foyer, which features a wide staircase with a sculpted railing. A long, carpeted hall attached to the foyer stretches almost the length of the mansion and has several doors leading away from it, including one at the far end. Bundles of twigs are heaped against the walls.

• The twigs are being stored here until they can be fashioned into a wooden effigy of the sun (for the Festival of the Blazing Sun).
• The stairs climb to the upstairs gallery (area N3i).
• The portraits depict the baron, his family, and their ancestors. Close inspection reveals that some of the people portrayed look very much alike.
• Tucked in the northeast corner of the foyer is a vestibule packed with fine cloaks, coats, and boots.

• This parlor contains a fine array of furnishings and draperies, with an overall feminine touch.
• The baroness sometimes entertains guests here.

• Characters can hear the chatter of female voices as they approach this room. The first time they peer inside, read:

A chandelier of wrought iron fitted with wax candles hangs above a polished wooden dining table. Around the table are seated eight women of various ages in comfortable, high-backed chairs. They wear faded clothes, drink tea, and devour cake while a ninth woman, well dressed and very pleased with herself, circles the table and talks excitedly about decorations for the impending festival.

• The women seated at the table are eight Vallakian peasants (LG female commoners) invited to spend time with the baroness, Lydia Petrovna, who is bribing them with tea and cake. Lydia has assigned these women the task of stitching children's costumes and weaving together a wicker sun for the Festival of the Blazing Sun.
• Lydia assumes that the characters are here at the invitation of her husband, the burgomaster. She calls for the maid to take them to the den (area N3e) and then to inform Baron Vallakovich (see area N2l) that his guests have arrived.
• A serving table stands in one corner of the dining hall.

White sheets cover two plain wooden tables in the center of this room. Neatly arranged atop one table is a complete set of polished silverware. The other table is covered with wicker baskets containing turnips and beets.

• The beets and turnips are for the Festival of the Blazing Sun
• Treasure. The silverware set is worth 150 gp.

• Characters who ask to see the burgomaster are brought here.

  Padded chairs and couches line the walls of this cozy, carpeted den. The room reeks of pipe smoke, and mounted on the east wall is the head of an angry-looking brown bear.

• The mounted bear's head is meant to unnerve visitors.

  • It serves as a subtle warning not to antagonize the burgomaster, who spends most of his time in the library (area N3l).
  • Although the burgomaster claims that his father killed the bear, the head was actually a gift given to his family by the late Szoldar Grygorovich, father of the wolf hunter Szoldar Szoldarovich (area N2).

This room contains four simple beds and an equal number of plain wooden trunks.

• The household staff consists of a maid (LG female human commoner) and a cook (LG male human commoner): Velimir (cook), Kresimira (maid)
• The other two beds belonged to the butler (Bratomil) and the baroness's lady-in-waiting (Faina Janek, both of whom have gone missing (see area N3t).
• The trunks contain the staff's clothing and uniforms.

A cook wearing a white apron over a black smock busies himself in this warm, well-appointed kitchen. A staircase in one corner climbs to the upper floor.

• Velimir
• The staircase leads to the upstairs gallery (area N3i).
• A door in the west wall leads to a garden outside.
  • The door is usually locked, and both the cook and the burgomaster carry keys to unlock it.

This pantry contains shelves of foodstuffs, although half of the shelves are bare. Two barrels of wine stand against the east wall.

• The pantry has not been fully stocked for as long as anyone can remember
• The two barrels contain a fine wine called Red Dragon Crush, created by the Wizard of Wines winery—facts burned into the side of each barrel.

If the characters arrive here from the entrance hall (area N3a), read:

The staircase climbs twenty feet to a beautifully appointed gallery that continues toward the west, running almost the length of the mansion. Framed landscape paintings line the walls, and red silk drapes cover a ten-foot-tall arched window of leaded glass.

If the characters arrive here from the kitchen (area N3g), read:

The staircase climbs to a ten-foot-wide gallery that stretches almost the length of the mansion. Breathtaking paintings of landscapes line the walls. Two separate, narrow hallways lead away from the gallery to the north.

• The door to this room is unlocked

• Have Elora enter first if possible

  You open the door to a rather Spartan bedroom. There's the bed, a chest of drawers, and some shelves. Or rather, it would be sparse if it weren't filled with hundreds of handmade dolls. And they all... look... just like... YOU."

Some of the dolls fill a long bookshelf, and others are arranged in neat rows on wall-mounted shelves. Still others are piled atop a bed and a heavy wooden chest.

• Izek Strazni, sleeps here at night. During the day, he is in town taking care of his master's business.

• Izek's chest is unlocked and contains a heap of wrinkled clothes, under which is a nonmagical shortsword.

• A thorough search of the room reveals a few empty wine bottles under the bed. The label on each bears the winery's name, the Wizard of Wines, and wine's name, Purple Grapemash No. 3.

• Izek's Doll Collection. Each doll has a small tag stitched into its clothing that reads "Is No Fun, Is No Blinsky!"

  • Izek had the local toymaker, Gadof Blinsky (area N7), craft the dolls in Elora's likeness.

This handsomely appointed room contains a canopied bed, a low bookshelf, and a full-length mirror in a wooden frame on the wall across from the door. Set into the north wall is an arched window of leaded glass. Nothing here seems unusual.

• Nothing about his bedroom betrays Victor's deviant nature or magical proclivities.
• The books include collections of Barovian fables and tomes about mythology, heraldry, and other innocuous subjects.

Floor-to-ceiling shelves line every wall of this windowless room, and the number of books contained here is nothing short of astounding.

A brass oil lamp sits atop a large desk in the center of the room. The chair behind the desk is comfortably padded and has the symbol of a roaring bear stitched into its back cushion.

• If the burgomaster has not been drawn elsewhere, he is here. Add:

Standing behind the chair, holding an open book, is a bear of a man. His breastplate, rapier, silk tunic, and greasy beard glisten in the lamplight. Resting on small rugs to his left and right are a pair of black mastiffs.

• A paranoid man, he wears his breastplate and rapier even while relaxing in his library.

• Two of his servants, the butler (Bratomil and his wife's lady-in-waiting, have vanished without a trace in the past week, so he has good cause to be worried.

• The baron's desk contains three drawers stuffed with blank sheets of parchment, jars of ink, and writing quills.

  • It also holds thick books of tax records dating back to the times of the baron's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather.

• The baron wears a signet ring and carries three keys: one that unlocks the outside door in area N3g, and two keys for the door and the manacles in area N3m.

• Treasure. The Vallakovich book collection contains old, leather-bound tomes on virtually every subject.

  • Use the Random Book Table (see chapter 4, area K37) to determine the subject matter of a particular book.

• The door to this room is locked. The baron carries the key.

  This door is locked with deadbolt and a large iron padlock that attaches the door soundly to the wall from the outside.

inside:

Chained to the back wall of this otherwise empty closet is a badly beaten man wearing nothing but a loincloth. The iron shackles have cut into his wrists, causing blood to trickle down his hands.

• The man is a Vallakian shoemaker named Udo Lukovich (LN male human commoner). He was arrested during the Wolf's Head Jamboree for carrying a sign that suggested that Vallakians should feed the baron to the wolves.
• Baron Vallakovich has the key to Udo's manacles. The manacles break if they take 10 damage or more from a single weapon attack.
• If the characters release Udo, his first desire is to return to his home.
  • Later, he plans to tell Father Lucian (see area N1) of his ill treatment in the burgomaster's estate.
  • If the baron discovers that Udo has escaped or been set free, he sends Izek to find the shoemaker and bring him back for further questioning
  • Under great duress, Udo provides the names or descriptions of those who liberated him, turning the burgomaster against the characters.

Cloaks, coats, gowns, and other fancy apparel hang from hooks in this closet. Arranged on low shelves are many fine shoes, slippers, and boots.

Time has faded the grandeur of this master bedroom. The furnishings have lost some of their color and splendor. A short pull-rope hangs from a wooden trapdoor in the ceiling.

• The baron and the baroness sleep in one bed at night. Nothing of value is kept here.
• The trapdoor in the ceiling can be pulled down to reveal an attic room (area N3r)
  • An unfolding wooden ladder allows easy access.

This room smells of powder and fine perfume. A vanity with a mirror stands against one wall next to a faceless wooden mannequin wearing a white bridal gown. Mounted on another wall is a full-length mirror with a gilded frame. A door in one corner leads to a garderobe.

• The Baroness used to while away long hours in this room, fondling her perfume collection and searching for solace in her own reflection

• Since her lady-in-waiting went missing several days ago, the baroness has spent almost no time here.

• Bridal Gown. The white gown stored here belongs to the baroness. It reminds the her of happier times.

An iron tub with clawed feet stands against the back wall. Neatly folded towels rest atop a table near the door.

• Characters are most likely to enter this room via a trapdoor in the ceiling of the master bedroom (area N3o).

This dusty, twenty-foot-square room has a high-pitched ceiling that reaches its peak twenty feet above. The wooden rafters are shrouded in cobwebs. Except for an old table with a lantern on it, the room is empty.

• A door in the south wall can be pulled open to area N3s.

This large attic is full of old, forgotten things draped in white sheets. Piled around them are barrels, crates, trunks, and old furnishings covered with cobwebs and dust. You see a clear footpath through the maze.

• Characters can follow a single set of human footprints in the dust that lead to area N3t.
• Searching through the junk in this attic uncovers a few old paintings and antiques, but nothing of value.

• Victor spends most of his time here, leaving only when he needs food or spell components. When the characters first set eyes on the door to this room, read:

Someone has carved a large skull into this door. Hanging from the doorknob is a wooden sign that reads "ALL IS NOT WELL!" You hear a young man's voice beyond.

• Anyone who inspects the carving and succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Investigation) check notices a small, nearly invisible glyph etched into the skull's forehead.

• This is a glyph of warding (5d8 lightning damage) that triggers if anyone other than Victor opens the door.

• The voice belongs to Victor. He is reading aloud from his spellbook.

  • Anyone who listens at the door and succeeds on a DC 14 Intelligence (Arcana) check can tell he's badly pronouncing some kind of teleportation spell.

• If the characters open the door, read:

  Someone has taken old, mismatched furniture and created a study is this dusty, lamplit chamber. Tables are strewn with pieces of parchment, on which strange diagrams are drawn, and a freestanding bookshelf holds a collection of bones. A dusty rug covers the floor in front of a pine box, on which lounges a skeletal cat. Several more skeletal cats skulk about. Most unnerving of all is the sight of three small children standing with their backs to you in the northeast corner of the room.

• If the characters trigger the glyph of warding or otherwise announce their arrival, Victor casts a greater invisibility spell on himself and hides in a corner

  • Otherwise, he's visible

• If the characters can see Victor, read:

  In the center of the room, perched on a stool, is a thin young man with a premature streak of gray in his dark hair. He cradles an open leather-bound book in his arms.

• For practice and for fun, Victor dug up some old cat bones behind the Wachter estate (see area N4) and animated them, creating six Cat skeletons (use the cat stat block, but give them darkvision out to a range of 60 feet and immunity to poison damage, exhaustion, and the poisoned condition). The skeletons attack only when Victor commands them to.

• The "children" standing in the corner are painted wooden dolls dressed in clothing that Victor wore as a child. He pretends they are his disobedient pupils.

• The sheets of parchment are covered with elaborate diagrams of teleportation circles. Victor drew them in an effort to learn the teleportation circle spell, which he's still trying to master (see "Teleportation Circle" below).

• The trunk contains several bolts of silk cloth, needles and thread, and a half-finished wizard's robe. Victor started to make the robe for himself but found the work tedious and stopped.

• Teleportation Circle. Victor's spellbook contains incomplete text for a Teleportation Circle spell, along with the sigil sequences of three permanent teleportation circles, the locations of which aren't described. There's not enough text to prepare the spell properly, but that hasn't stopped Victor from trying to learn to cast it.

• Victor recently inscribed his own version of a teleportation circle on the floor

  • It's hidden under the rug so that his parents don't find it.
  • In the past couple of weeks, Victor has managed to imbue the circle with magic, but he failed to account for several factors. His circle doesn't fade after use, nor does it function like the teleportation circle spell.
  • If the circle is used in the casting of a teleportation circle spell, whether the actual spell or Victor's version of it, any creature standing on the circle when the spell is cast takes 3d10 force damage and isn't teleported anywhere.
    • If this damage reduces the creature to 0 hit points, the creature is disintegrated.
  • Any character who studies the circle and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check realizes that Victor's circle is horribly flawed and potentially deadly when used.
• Victor has tested his circle on two reluctant servants (Bratomil and Faina) (compelled by his suggestion spell), in both cases linking his circle to one of the other circles whose sigils are in his spellbook.

  • Each servant was torn apart before Victor's eyes before vanishing in a flash of purple light. Victor doesn't know how to fix the circle but plans to make more modifications to it before testing it again.

• Treasure. Victor's spellbook contains all the spells Victor has prepared (see the mage stat block in the Monster Manual) as well as the following spells: acid splash, animate dead, blight, cloudkill, darkvision, glyph of warding, levitate, mending, remove curse, and thunderwave.

• Lady Wachter invites them to sit down for dinner, and her servants serve a decadent roast with all the fixings as well as plenty of wine

• She'll ask what they're doing in town and try to get to know them first, but will eventually share the following:

  • She's not happy with the rule of The Baron:
    • Vargas isn't the first terrible Burgomaster of the Vallakovich family. Each Burgomaster has been just as terrible, if not worse, in their rules. Don't the PCs feel such leadership should end with Vargas?
    • Vargas and his captain, Izek Strazni, are brutes. Many believe only Izek is responsible for torturing prisoners, but Fiona knows that Vargas has his own mean streak. Perhaps that is why his wife, Lydia, is so delicate in nature...
    • Fiona tried to do the diplomatic thing and consolidate an understanding with the Burgomaster by arranging the marriage between their children. However, she was unaware that Victor Vallakovich could be as cruel as his father at so young an age. Though Fiona doesn't know what exactly Victor did to make her daughter lose her mind, she knows it must have been horrible. It obviously and truthfully pains Fiona to relate Stella's condition to the party, but she'll do so to impress the corruption of the Burgomaster's family line.
  • Strahd (if he comes up in conversation):
    • Fiona is the only person in Vallaki who will call Strahd by name, directly against Vallaki's laws. She does this because she has no fear of him.
    • Fiona sees no monster in the land but Vargas himself. Fiona believes that Vargas' fear of Strahd is only an excuse to get away with mistreating the people of Vallaki. She believes Vargas actively sows that fear to get the people to follow to him in a great conspiracy. This is false, however. Vargas actively believes the delusions he preaches and is in no way as manipulative as Fiona thinks.
    • As in the raw text, Fiona refers to Strahd as simply a "negligent landlord."
    • If the flow of conversation allows, Fiona will happily relate her meeting with Strahd when she was a teenager (detailed in Fiona) She uses the story to prove how benign she believes Strahd to be.
• At the end:

  • if hostile: she'll thank them and send the party on their way
  • if sympathetic: she'll tell them about the prophesy and that she believes their arrival means the start of a new age she'll ask for the following:
    • She plans to overthrow Vargas during the coming festival
      • she would like the party's assistance
    • She needs additional intel on Vargas and his foul practices
      • She asks the party to go to the mansion to collect information (also maybe the reformation center) to use for the revolt
      • She wants to know how Victor caused Stella's condition
      • She offers a place to stay

The Wachter family, once an influential noble line in Barovia, owns and occupies a mansion in Vallaki. The house's reigning governess, Fiona Wachter, is a loyal servant of Strahd. She seeks to supplant Baron Vargas Vallakovich as the town burgomaster.

The front door is locked and reinforced with bronze bands. All of the servants carry a key, as do Lady Wachter and Ernst Larnak. The door can be forced open with a successful DC 20 Strength check.

If the characters knock on the front door, a servant opens a small window cut into the door at eye height and asks their business. Suspicious-looking strangers aren't invited inside, in case they're vampires.

The front door opens into a narrow vestibule. Three stained-glass doors in wooden frames lead from it.

Two closets flank the front door. The western closet contains Lady Wachter's outdoor clothes; the eastern one contains coats and boots that belong to her children.

A wooden staircase leads up to a balcony. At the foot of the stairs is a landing with three stained-glass doors in wooden frames.

The staircase climbs 15 feet to the upstairs hall (area N2l).

The house cook (see area N4h) rushes about this spotless kitchen most of the day, preparing meals or cleaning up after himself. A washbasin stands in the northeast corner. A slender door in the west wall leads to a small pantry.

This room holds crates of old clothing, as well as three barrels of drinking water, two empty wine barrels, and one full wine barrel. The wine barrels are emblazoned with the winery name, the Wizard of Wines, and the wine's name, Red Dragon Crush.

The back door is locked and similar to the front door (area N4a) in every respect. The vestibule has plain wooden doors leading to areas N4d, N4f, and N4h.

Servants' coats and aprons hang from hooks in this room, and boots are neatly lined up against the wall.

Anyone who searches the closet and makes a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check finds a secret door in the south wall. The door can be pulled open to reveal a stone staircase (area N4g) that leads to the cellar.

Iron torch sconces cling to the wall of a stone staircase that cuts its way through the heart of the old house.

The stairs connect the servants' closet (area N4f) with the cellar (area N4s). Lady Wachter uses this staircase to reach her secret cult lair (area N4t).

The furnishing in this room are bereft of imagination: four simple beds with equally austere wooden chests.

Lady Wachter's four servants (N male and female Commoners) sleep here at night. They include a cook named Dhavit, two maids named Madalena and Amalthia, and a valet named Haliq. The servants know Lady Wachter's secrets, but they would sooner die than betray her.

Lady Wachter greets her guests here, under the watchful eyes of her dead husband.

Here three elegant couches surround an oval table made of black glass. All are set in front of a blazing hearth, above which hangs the portrait of a smirking nobleman sporting a broken nose and a tangle of hair graying at the temples. Several smaller portraits hang on the north wall.

The portrait above the mantel depicts Lord Nikolai Wachter, Fiona's late husband (of whom his sons are the spitting image). The other portraits depict Lady Wachter, her sons, her daughter, and various deceased family members.

The parlor shares the fireplace with the den (area N4k). Ernst Larnak lurks in the den and eavesdrops on any conversation that Lady Wachter has with the characters, so that he can advise her after they depart.

An ornate dining table stretches the length of this room, a crystal chandelier hanging above it imperiously. The silverware is tarnished, the dishes chipped, yet all are still quite elegant. Eight chairs, their backs adorned with sculpted elk horns, surround the table. Arched windows made of a latticework of iron and glass look out onto the small, fog-swept estate.

If the characters aim to oppose the burgomaster, Lady Wachter offers them a warm meal in the dining room as a token of her support and allegiance.

Wood paneling, embroidered rugs, colorful furnishings, and a blazing fire make this chamber stifling. Mounted above the mantel is an elk's head. Across from the hearth, tall, slender windows look out over dead gardens.

Ernst Larnak, Lady Wachter's spy, lounges here when he's not out spying on her behalf.

Treasure. The room contains several items of value, including a golden goblet (worth 250 gp) from which Ernst drinks wine, a crystal wine decanter (worth 250 gp), four electrum candelabras (worth 25 gp each), and a bronze urn with frolicking children painted on its sides (worth 100 gp).

A hallway with a window at each end wraps around the staircase railing. Framed portraits and mirrors festoon the walls, surrounding you with judging looks and dark reflections. You hear something scratching at one of the many doors.

The scratching noise comes from the door to area N4n, which is locked. If the characters call out, a plaintive female voice meows like a cat and says, "Can little kitty come out to play? Little kitty is sad and lonely and promises to be good this time, really she does." A closet at the south end of the hallway holds blankets and linens.

This bedroom contains nothing out of the ordinary: a neatly made bed, a table with an oil lamp on it, a handsome wooden chest, a slender wardrobe, and a window box with drapes.

These two rooms belong to Lady Wachter's sons, Nikolai and Karl. There's a 25 percent chance that one of the maids (see area N4h) is here, tidying up.

The door to this room is locked from both sides, and only Lady Wachter has a key.

This room is musty and dark. An iron-framed bed fitted with leather straps stands near a wall. The place has no other furnishings.

Scurrying away from you on all fours is a young woman in a soiled nightgown. She leaps onto the bed and hisses like a cat. "Little kitty doesn't know you!" she shouts. "Little kitty doesn't like the smell of you!"

The young woman is Stella Wachter, Lady Wachter's insane daughter. A greater restoration spell rids her of the madness that makes her think she's a cat. If she is cured of her madness, she blames her mother for treating her horribly and using her as a pawn to seize control of the town. Stella knows none of her mother's secrets, apart from her mother's desire to overthrow the burgomaster. Stella has nothing kind to say about the burgomaster or his son, Victor, whose very name makes her cringe. With her wits restored, Stella feels she has no one in Vallaki she can count on. She latches onto any character who is kind to her. If the party takes her to St Andral's Church (N1), Father Lucian offers to look after her, and she agrees to stay with him.

The door to this room is locked. Lady Wachter and her servants carry keys. A ghastly sight awaits those who peer into the room:

Across from the door, a fire sputters and struggles for life in the hearth, above which hangs a framed family portrait: a noble father and mother, their two young sons, and a baby daughter in the father's arms. The sons are smiling in a way that suggests mischief. The parents look like uncrowned royalty.

Wood paneling covers the walls of the room. A closet and a framed mirror flank a curtained window to the south. To the north, a wide, canopied bed lies pinned between matching end tables with oil lamps.
There appears to be someone sleeping in the bed

• If inspected closer:
  • The bump in the bed doesn't seem to be moving
• If the covers are pulled back:

Stretched out on one side of the bed is a man dressed in black, his eyes each covered with a copper piece. He bears a striking resemblance to the father in the painting.

Lady Wachter's husband, Nikolai, lies in his bed, impeccably dressed, quite deceased, and under the effect of the gentle repose spell. Nothing of value is on him.

The closet contains shelves of fancy footwear and many fine garments, including a black ceremonial robe with a hood (similar to the ones worn by the cult fanatics in area N4t). On a high shelf rests a locked iron chest. Lady Wachter hides the key to the chest on a tiny hook in the fireplace, under the mantel. A character who takes a minute to search the fireplace finds the key with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check. Use of the key disables a Poison needle trap trap hidden in the lock. A creature that triggers the trap and fails the saving throw against the needle's poison falls unconscious for 1 hour instead of being poisoned for 1 hour.

The iron chest is lined with thin sheets of lead and contains the bones of Leo Dilisnya, an enemy of the Wachter family. Leo was one of the soldiers who betrayed and murdered Strahd on the day of Sergei and Tatyana's wedding. He escaped from Castle Ravenloft, only to be hunted down and killed by the vampire Strahd. The Wachters keep his bones under lock and key so that Leo can't be raised from the dead.

Fortunes of Ravenloft.
If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is in the iron chest that contains Leo Dilisnya's bones.

The double doors to this room are locked. Lady Wachter and her servants carry keys.

This room is crawling with cats. Bookshelves hug the walls, but most of the shelves are bare. Other furnishings include a desk, a chair, a table, and a wine cabinet. The room has an irregular shape, and none of its angles seem quite right, as though the shifting of the house has set the whole place on edge.

Eight cats have the run of the library. These family pets have vicious dispositions, attacking anyone who tries to pick them up. Characters who have a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 10 or higher notice that one cat has a small key hanging from its collar. The key opens the locked chest in (area N4q).

There is a 25 percent chance that one of the maids is here, dusting the bookshelves.

The cabinet holds a fine collection of wineglasses. The desk contains blank pieces of parchment, quill pens, jars of ink, wax candles, and a wax seal.

Most of the Wachter family's book collection was sold off years ago to cover debts, and the books that remain aren't particularly valuable. Use the Random Book Table table to determine the subject matter of a particular book.

A section of the bookshelf that stretches along the southernmost wall is actually a secret door on hidden hinges. The bookshelf can be pulled outward, revealing an open doorway that leads to area N4q.

Behind the hinged panel in the bookcase lies a dusty, ten-foot-square room with a curtained window and shelves lining three walls. On the bottom shelf rests an iron chest. The other shelves are bare.

The key to the chest can be found in the library (area N4p). Use of the key disables a poison needle trap hidden in the lock.

Treasure. The iron chest contains several items:

• A silk bag containing 180 ep, each coin bearing Strahd's stern visage in profile
• A leather bag containing 110 gp
• A wooden pipe that has been passed down through many generations of Wachter patriarchs
• Five scrolls—notarized deeds for parcels of land given to the Wachter family by Count Strahd von Zarovich nearly four centuries ago
• A supple leather case containing an unbound manuscript titled The Devil We Know—a poetic manifesto written by Lady Fiona Wachter attesting that the worship of devils can bring happiness, success, freedom, wealth, and longevity
• A blasphemous treatise bound in black leather titled The Grimoire of the Four Quarters, written by the infamous diabolist Devostas, who was drawn and quartered for his fell practices yet did not die (this is a forgery; the actual grimoire would drive a reader mad)
• A very old letter to Lady Lovina Wachter (an ancestor) from one Lord Vasili von Holtz, thanking Lovina for her hospitality, loyalty, and friendship over the years

Characters who have the Tome of Strahd realize that the handwriting in Lady Lovina's letter is identical to Strahd's handwriting, suggesting that Strahd and Lord Vasili are one and the same.

If the characters approach the cellar door from the outside, read:

A slanted, wooden cellar door with an iron pull ring and iron hinges stands against the foundation of the house.

The door is unlocked. On the other side of the door are stone steps leading to a stone landing with a wooden railing. A longer staircase extends south from the landing, leading down to the cellar.

This large root cellar has a dirt floor. Two ascending flights of stone steps enclosed by wooden railings stand across from one another. Tracks in the earth lead from one staircase to the other, and other trails go from both staircases to the center of the bare west wall. Four neatly made cots are set in a row against the south wall.

Buried under the earthen floor are eight human skeletons—the animated remains of dead Vallakians that were stolen from the church cemetery (area N1) and animated by Lady Wachter. They rise up and attack intruders who cross the floor. The skeletons don't attack anyone who utters the phrase "Let the dead remain at rest" before setting foot on the floor. Only Lady Wachter, her sons, her servants, and her loyal cult fanatics know the pass phrase.

The cots are here for cultists to spend the night.

The footprints in the dirt give away the location of a secret door in the center of the western wall. Consequently, no ability check is required to locate it. The door is soundproof and pivots open on a central axis.

Flickering candles in iron holders fill this room with light and shadows. This room has a ten-foot-high ceiling and a large black pentagram inscribed on the stone floor. At each point of the pentagram rests a wooden chair. Seated in four of the five chairs are men and women in black robes with hoods: a young man who has the face of an angel; a balding hulk of a man; a squat, middle-aged woman; and a taller, younger woman with an unsettling glare. They rise to confront you.

The four people are town residents (LE male and female human Cult Fanatics) whom Lady Wachter has seduced with promises of power, wealth, and long life. They are members of her "book club," eagerly waiting for Lady Wachter to join them, read passages from her manifesto (see area N4q), and maybe conjure up a few coins. Resting on the fifth chair, quietly eavesdropping on the cultists, is the lady's invisible imp, Majesto.

The cultists are gathered here in secret and attack the characters to protect their identities. They are evil Vallakians of no great importance who are tired of living in fear and poverty. Use the "Barovian Names" sidebar in chapter 2 to generate names for them, if needed.

The imp doesn't get involved in the fighting unless Lady Wachter is drawn into the conflict, in which case it fights to protect its mistress.

The pentagram is a nonmagical decoration, though Lady Wachter would have her cultists believe otherwise.

The colorful half-elf bard Rictavio (see area N2 and appendix D) paid Gunther and Yelena a generous amount of gold to watch his carnival wagon, no questions asked. If the characters approach the wagon, read:

The wagon suddenly lurches, as though something big has thrown itself against the inside wall. You hear the cracking of wood, the scraping of metal, and the snarl of something inhuman. Upon closer inspection, you see that the sides of the wagon are spattered with dry blood. You also see an inscription on the wagon's door frame that reads, "I bring you from Shadow into Light!"

Rictavio carries the key to the wagon door. The lock can be picked but is rigged with a [poison needle trap] trap.

Inside the wagon is a saber-toothed tiger (see statblock below).

The wagon also contains the torn-up remains of a doll. A character who makes a successful DC 10 Intelligence (Investigation) check discovers that the doll was once a colorfully dressed Vistanieffigy. Stitched into its tattered pants is a slogan: "Is No Fun, Is No Blinsky!"

Rictavio isn't ready to unleash the tiger on the Vistani just yet. He feeds it by dropping wolf steaks down a 1-foot-square hatch in the wagon's roof. A character who climbs atop the wagon can spot the hatch without needing to make an ability check.

If the tiger is released, it begins stalking through the streets until its keen sense of smell locates either Rictavio (area N2) or Piccolo (area N7). The tiger doesn't attack anyone who isn't a Vistana except in self-defense. It attacks Vistani on sight. Rictavio can make the tiger break off its attack and lure it back into the wagon.

Treasure. The front seat of the wagon conceals a secret compartment that requires a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to find and open. The compartment holds several items:

• An unlocked wooden coffer containing 50 ep bearing Strahd's profile and six gemstones (worth 100 gp each)
• A small prayer book (worth 50 gp) with a green leather cover and indecipherable notes in the margins
• A healer's kit
• Three wooden holy symbols inlaid with silver and in the shape of a sunburst (worth 50 gp each)
• A silvered shortsword
• A hand crossbow inlaid with mother-of-pearl (worth 250 gp)
• A bundle of twenty silvered crossbow bolts
• A worn leather case with gold buckles (worth 100 gp) containing three sharpened wooden stakes, a sack of garlic, a jar of salt, a box of holy wafers, six vials of holy water, a polished steel mirror, and a bone scroll tube with a silver stopper and chain (worth 25 gp). The tube contains a spell scroll of protection from fiends and a spell scroll of protection from undead.

Fortunes of Ravenloft If your card reading reveals that a treasure is here, it is hidden with the other items under the front seat of the wagon, in a lead-lined box.

Arranged haphazardly about the floor of this musty, L-shaped room are thirteen wooden coffins.

• Henrik stores and displays the coffins he has made in this room
  • All of them are empty.
• The door to this staircase has a Glyph of Warding with a Clairvoyance spell attached
  • if anyone besides Henrik or Strahd open the door, Strahd can see what's going on
  • DC 18 Investigation can find the glyph (Strahd's Spell save is 18)
  • When this door is open, Strahd is on his way!!
• When the characters open the door:

As you open the door, a sudden draft chills your spines, and it leaves you with a very uncomfortable feeling. You feel that you're being watched.

A table with four chairs is in one corner of this room, with a lantern hanging from a chain directly above. Two well-made cabinets stand against the east wall. Up against the wall, you see a bedroll.

• The cabinets are packed with worthless items that Henrik has collected over the years.
• Henrik has been using the bedroll because he's afraid to go upstairs for the last several months because of the vampire spawn

This workshop contains everything a carpenter needs to make coffins and furniture. Three sturdy worktables stretch the length of the west wall.

• Henrik builds coffins and keeps his carpenter's tools in this room.

This kitchen contains a square table surrounded by chairs and shelves of provisions.

• Henrik prepares his meals here.

This modest bedchamber holds a cot and several well-made pieces of furniture, including a table, a padded chair, a bookshelf, and a wardrobe.

• Henrik used to sleep here, at night and well into the morning

  • Investigation reveals this bed hasn't been used in months

• The bookshelf contains a handful of storybooks and carpenters' manuals that have been handed down from previous generations.

• Treasure. The wardrobe in the southeast corner has a secret compartment in its base, requiring a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to find.

  • Inside the compartment are two sacks—a large one containing the bones of St. Andral and a small one containing 30 sp and 12 ep. All of the coins bear the profiled visage of Strahd von Zarovich.
• if the bones are taken, the Vampire spawn next door wake up, and start making their way into the town to raise hell

  • at least one of them will try to take the bones
    • this may be a strength vs str or dex contest

This large, drafty room is strung with cobwebs and takes up most of the upper floor. Stacks of wooden planks lie amid several crates marked "JUNK."

• The two southernmost crates contain old junk that Henrik has accumulated over the years

• The six crates in the northern part of the room are packed with earth and serve as resting places for the six vampire spawn that lair here

  • If the characters open one of the occupied crates, all of the vampire spawn burst forth and attack

• Teleport Destination. Characters who teleport to this location from area K78 in Castle Ravenloft arrive at the point marked T on the map.

• Strahd had all the women killed, so they can't procreate
• Kasimir Velikov

• Eren - was once a young farm girl. Once she recovers from her bloodlust and is freed from the event, she flees Vallaki into the woods.
• Vadu - was once a an uneducated peasant with abusive parents. He revels in his vampiric power and will do anything Strahd says.
• Tereska - An honestly cruel individual who lives for the kill.
• Ulrich - was a middle class young man who happened to catch Strahd's eye several decades ago. Once he recovers from his bloodlust and is freed of the event, he recognizes the monster he's become and looks for a way to die.
• Nimira - Desperately seeks Strahd's approval and follows his orders and wishes religiously.
• Rivia - Insane. She has no mind of her own and follows her most beastial instincts.
• Liliana - Delusional and vain. She tries to murder any girl she thinks is prettier than she seduce/bite any man she finds exceptionally handsome. Ugly people are below her regard.

• Location:
  • The church if the characters take the bones there, or chase the vampire spawn
    • the characters enter alone: Strahd is there waiting at the altar
    • the characters follow in behind the spawn and see them hand the bones to Strahd
  • The streets if they spend too much time saving people
    • he descends on Beucephalus where they are
      • the spawn run up and hand him the bones
• Strahd is OP
  • if attacked, he bats them away like flies
    • he has no intentions of killing, atm
  • if he doesn't have the bones, he uses the most efficient way of getting them
    • Vampire Charm, Suggestion, or maybe one of the spawn retrieves them
  • he monologues about St Andral
  • he uses magical fire (Fireball) to incinerate the bones after he monologues
  • The light fades and Strahd has closed the gap between him and (Ireena | the door)
  • He gets to Ireena wherever she is, scoops her up on Beucephalus and is off