Everyone we have met (or been menaced by) so far. These pages record only what we know — if it isn’t written here, we haven’t learned it yet.
The devil
- Strahd von Zarovich — vampire, lord of the land, our self-appointed host. He has met us. He owns the coins, the gate, and — by his own account — the land itself.
The living
- Madam Eva — the ancient seer of Tser Pool. She read our fates for free, and called Sirius an imbecile. Twice.
- Ireena Kolyana — the burgomaster’s daughter, delivered to Vallaki as promised. Told everything at last — and answered with the bones. Current whereabouts: unknown, and we hate the sentence too.
- Ismark — her brother, the new burgomaster. Honest about the horrors; less honest about crypts.
- Vasha and Radu — the hags’ living larder: Vasha free and scouting the mill; Radu still chained inside. We owe them a return trip.
- Father Lucian — priest of St. Andral’s. His bones came home on our watch, and the ground answered. “I’m not gonna say it’s a bit late…”
- Muriel Vinshaw — wereraven, married into the raven clan, the Ravens’ active part. Fought beside us from Session 11 — and resigned at dawn, Session 13: “too rich for my blood.” We owe her several lives.
- Roger — last of the previous Mistwalkers. The tale is told: his band killed their destined ally — who now has a name: Great Uncle Frederick. Don’t be boring. Don’t kill the ravens.
- Urwin Martikov — our barman. Also a wereraven, which he demonstrated, in our bedroom, with tremendous dignity.
- Danika Martikov — our landlady, whose family owns the winery — the wince, fully explained at last.
- The Bard — “Riptarvo,” who says the devil’s name out loud and watches us with great interest. No mere bard.
- The House of Wachter — Lady Fiona Wachter: robbed by us, scheduled to hang on our word, and magnificent at the fountain anyway. The lads Karl & Nikolai (“Mama’s room is verboten” — not anymore), a decade-fresh corpse on the marital bed, and the raven riding her shoulder openly. Their final form.
- Stella Wachter — the girl behind the moaning door. Catatonic, tended by Ireena — and now the subject of the most public accusation in Vallaki’s history.
- Ernst Larnak — the lady’s shadow, the hands that took the bones — and, as of Session 13, a man who lost a staring contest with a fake baby, twice.
- The Baron of Vallaki — our other employer. Now holds the devil’s own letter, a rewritten history (“there have never been vampires in Vallaki”), and a scaffold waiting on our testimony. He is not lying. Somehow that is still worse.
- Izek — eight feet of enforcer. Returned most of our priest (“a token of friendship”), took our letter, and recites the official version to our faces. We hate that we sort of like him now.
- Victor Vallakovich — the perfect son in the attic. Three samples now: Stella’s years, Sirius’s half hour, Fëanor’s two days. And the accusation is public.
- Milivoj — the orphanage’s kind giant. Cursed victim, confessed bone thief, confined on his word. The bones are home; his sentence comes due.
- Henrik the Coffin Maker — confessed the rest of the chain, checked for nice shoes (negative) — and arrested to the Reformation Center in our place. The list of people we’re responsible for grows teeth.
- The Abbot — the abbot above Krezk, who heals bodies and minds, and reportedly raises the dead. Everything about him comes with a pause first.
- Headmistress Claudia — holding twenty orphans together with no funds. We started badly and ended allies.
- Mostly Felix — the boy in the attic, and the shadow demon that used to answer for him. The demon is in the locket now.
- Father Donavich — the village priest. “Do what you must.”
- Aragal — Vistani rider from the Vallaki camp; wants a Blinsky toy for his daughter, will pay.
- Mary — Lancelot’s owner; her daughter Gertruda is missing.
- Bildrath — the village merchant and his “outsider special” prices.
- The Man in the Tent — he knew all five of our names. He was the doorman; the tent was Eva’s.
The unmasked, in the best way
- The Ravens of Barovia — no longer pen pals: wereravens, seven hundred years against the devil, information brokers with a winery — and one field agent, Muriel Vinshaw, now openly on our side. Their courier Falkon is missing at the winery.
The unmasked
- Granny the Pie-Seller — the kindly pie-seller is a hag named Morgantha, one of three at the windmill. We fought the coven; the coven won. They hold Radu, we hold a grudge, and now we know their weakness. And still: nobody eats another pie. There are no more pies.
The dead, and the at-rest
- Doru † — the priest’s son, Strahd’s cruellest lesson. At rest by our hands.
- Rose & Thorn † — the children of Death House. Buried, freed, grateful.
- The Durst Household — the cult that built the horror under their own home.
The very good
- Lancelot — a dog. The best of us. Home safe.