Received in Session 14 · from Ireena Kolyanovich
The Great Map
The great map of Barovia from the burgomaster's mansion, taken down on Ireena's order. Ravens, wolves, a castle at the top, and names we have only heard.
We first saw it at Wachterhaus, framed behind glass at the top of the stairs: wolves, the moon, and somewhere the goats and the cows. Sirius thought it was art. Drew, who knows cartography, committed as much of it to memory as she could, since copying it would take hours and stealing it would mean carrying something very big. We left it on the wall.
The burgomaster's mansion had the same map hanging on its first floor, with the colours inverted. After the festival, with the Baron dead, we asked whether we could take it. Ireena said, "Guards, on my authority, unhang this map." It's with us now, and Drew carries it.
What is written on it, top to bottom:
BAROVIA, under a castle drawn at the very top
VALLAKI, on the left, where the red roads meet
BEREZ, on the right, beside a great crescent moon
ARGYNVOSTHOLT, below Berez, next to a dragon's head dripping blood
ST. MARKOVIA, a church on a hill
KREZK, at the bottom, under the church
The rest is pictures, with no names. Among them: two small gateways on the roads, a windmill, a wolf's head, a spread of cards, a goat's head, a hut standing on roots, a tower in a round lake, a bunch of grapes, a sword, a raven, a bare tree, a sunburst, a mouth full of teeth dripping blood, and dark round pools along the rivers. Two great ravens and two wolves frame the border.
From Ireena Kolyanovich.