Through the Mists

Vargas Vallakovich

At a glance

Vallaki’s burgomaster, whose compulsory festivals and insistence on happiness define the town even in the aftermath of Watcher House’s destruction.

Portrait

Vargas Vallakovich, a balding pale man with long iron-gray side hair, wears an oxblood brocade coat and clasps his hands beneath a restrained smile.

Known facts

  • A grieving woman at St. Andral’s said her shoemaker son had been imprisoned for speaking against the burgomaster at the last festival.

  • Governs Vallaki.

  • Mordenkainen said his continual festivals dominate town life.

  • Ernst Larnack described him as self-important and convinced by his own lies.

  • Urwin said the burgomaster orders people to remain happy and keeps up the town’s spirits by command.

  • Izek said Fiona Watcher’s new plan concerned taking control of Vallaki through something involving the burgomaster.

  • The company saw him near the burned house with two enormous mastiffs, commanding people to smile and promising a parade and festival the following day.

  • Izek said he previously worked for the burgomaster and expects to be accepted back after Fiona’s death.

  • Watcher House burned after the party defeated its cult and the animated building; the company later saw militia and covered bodies at the ruins, while the burgomaster insisted that all would be well.

Current relationship

The company has now seen his compulsory happiness firsthand. His next parade and festival are due the day after Session 28; no direct exchange with him or judgment on the company’s involvement in the fire was recorded.

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