Through the Mists

Vallaki

At a glance

A walled Barovian town identified by Vidic as a Keepers stronghold and governed by Burgomaster Vargas Vallakovich.

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An angled aerial view of Vallaki's timber houses, muddy streets, palisade walls, and eastern bridge beneath heavy gray clouds.

Known facts

  • Festival morning brought posters announcing the Festival of the Blazing Sun with compulsory attendance.

  • The company opened Rictavio’s trapped wagon at the stockyards, released an armored sabercat, and calmed it behind Blinsky’s Toys after a chase that broke a fence.

  • The company killed four vampires in the coffinmaker’s shop, but two escaped. Henrik was left at St. Andral’s, whose sacred protection Lucian restored.

  • People fleeing Krezk were directed toward the town and its church; their arrival was not specifically confirmed.

  • Strahd’s dinner invitation reached the company at the Blue Water Inn.

  • The burgomaster commanded smiles near the ruins and announced a parade and festival for the following day.

  • The company visited Blinsky’s Toys, investigated the stolen protection at St. Andral’s Church, and recovered the relics at the coffinmaker’s shop.

  • A group of Vistani was seen lingering outside the southern gates; their purpose was not established.

  • Lies within Barovia.

  • Serves as the Keepers of the Feather’s headquarters, according to Vidic.

  • Mordenkainen said its burgomaster repeatedly holds parties and festivals.

  • The party entered Vallaki by its eastern bridge and found residents divided between ashen, distant people and those Ernst Larnack called “blessed.” Urwin later identified the soulless gray residents as Shells.

  • Wolf and dire-wolf attacks trouble the surrounding area despite local hunters and trappers.

  • The Blue Water Inn is a Keeper contact point, according to Urwin.

  • Burgomaster Vargas Vallakovich orders the population to remain happy and sustains the town through continual festivals.

  • Fiona Watcher recruited Strahd-devoted acolytes and planned a move involving control of the town and its burgomaster. The party killed Fiona and the four principal acolytes found performing a ritual beneath her house.

  • Fiona kept five notarized property deeds signed by Strahd, but the land and purpose described by those documents remain unexamined.

  • Urwin reported trouble at St. Andral’s Church and directed the party to Father Lucian.

  • Watcher House animated and burned after the cult’s defeat, killing the household NPCs left inside; militia and covered bodies gathered at the smoldering ruins the next morning.

  • Izek intends to return to the burgomaster and directed the company to Blinsky, whose commissioned dolls depict the woman Izek seeks.

  • Van Richten is hiding as Rictavio at the Blue Water Inn. He says his circus materials at the stockyard are part of his preparations and asked the company to stay away.

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