Curse of Strahd NPCs

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## Castle Ravenloft NPCs

### Strahd

Count Strahd von Zarovich, Lord of Barovia is the main villain of Curse of Strahd. Strahd is a vampire who appears to be in his mid 40's, but is actually well over 700 years old.

Strahd lives in Castle Ravenloft and seemingly has 2 main motivations.

The first is bringing people to his land to hunt for sport.

The second is to marry women, primarily the reincarnations of his greatest love Tatyana. The current incarnation is a Barovian woman named Ireena.

Strhad currently has 3 wives; Ludmilla, Anastrasya, and Volenta. Additionally, he has his former husband Eschr and his finance Gertruda.

Finally, he is also served by the dusk elf Rahadin

### Ludmilla

Ludmilla Vilsevic von Zarovich, eldest in Strahd's harem. Ludmilla is a vampire who appears to be in her early 30's, but is actually over 300 years old. Ludmila came to Barovia from Faerun, she lived in Krezk and trained her natural magical abilities. She eventually made her way to the Amber Temples in the mountains. There she meet with Rahadin who recognized her beauty and brought her to Castle Ravenloft to show her to his master.

Strahd was of course interested in her beauty, but loved her more for her intelligence and charisma. At the Castle she lived for over a year studying wizard books in Strahd's personal library before she before she was turned.

Having seen how Strahd treats his old wives who no longer interest him, she set out to insure she would always be wanted. While many other brides would attempt to stay relevant would come off as needy. She set to prove that she was loyal to him.

One of the more famous proofs of loyalty was when she went to Vallaki and met Anastrasya. She dated Anastrasya for a while before bringing her to Strahd as his new wife.

She did similar things with many other former wives of Strahd (both those that predate Anastrasya and ones that come after Anastrasya.) Finally, the same holds true for when Strahd was looking to have a husband, Escher was the one who found him in Barovia and led the two of them to meeting.

She is also bestfriends with Rahadin.

She was given by Strahd authority over all mice, rats, and similar rodents in Barovia.

During the game, she got the party's attention by killing Vallaki guards. She then introduced herself and asked for them to kill Anastrasya. The party agreed to try and she additonally invited them to come to the Amber Temple. She also flirted on Thel but did not seem interested in the flirting from Essa. **The party was told to be outside of Vallaki in the morning where they would then be brought by carriage to the Amber Temple.**

### Anastrasya

Anastrasya Karelova von Zarovich, middle in Strahd's harem. Anastrasya is a vampire who appears to be in her late 20's, but is actually over 100 years old. Anastrasya was a native born Barovian, she was of the nobal Vallaki family known as the Karelova, which was one of the most notable families in Vallaki. She was the eldest daughter and was expected to marry and continue the family. However, while she is bi, she very much prefers women over men and after seeing many suitors stated that the only man that would be good enough for her would be Strahd himself.

She started dating Ludmilla and was eventually brought to Castle Ravenloft where she did in fact marry Strahd.

Her younger sister became the head of the family and would merry the heir the the even-more noble Wachter family, merging the two houses. This means that Lady Fiona Wachter is Anastrasya's great great great great niece (give or take a great or two).

She was given by Strahd autority over all wolves in Barovia. This also included the dire wolves as well was control over the pack of werewolves.

During the game Anastrasya first met the party at the Wizard of Wines Winery where she had just finished in a battle against the Wild folk of Barovia to help get the Winery reclaimed by its owner. There, she introduced herself and said she would like the party to kill any two of four woman, being Ludmilla, Volenta, Gertruda, and Ireena. As a show of good faith, she made it so wolves would not attack the party for 3 days and promised wolves would never attack them again if they helped her. She additionally flirted with Suzuki.

She met the party a second time in Vallaki where they (somewhat) stopped her from feasting on the Vallakians. She was almost killed and driven out of town.

### Volenta

Volenta Popfsky von Zarovich, youngest in Strahd's harem. Volenta is a vampire who appears to be 19, but is actually almost 80 years old.

Currently, not much in known about her.

She was given by Strad authority of all the spiders in Barovia.

She was described to be (essentially) a barbarian good at disguising herself.

During the game, she meet with the party on her way to Vallaki, disguised as Ireena. She got onto the party's cart and spent time trying to flirt with Olivia but ultimately was rejected by her. Volenta then revealed her true form and was trying to hold the party hostage into getting her brought into Vallaki. The party however charged for the entry knowing vampires need permission to enter, which she didn't have. Volenta jumped off the cart but drug Essa with her and started to attack. She was scared off by the rest of the party jumping off and left behind a magic item of hers called the Mask of Sarrow, which would give her extra health and would need to be taken to Castle Ravenloft in order to be repaired.

### Gertruda

Is the finance of Strahd and girlfriend of Ireena. She was brought to Barovia as a baby along with her mother, Marry. She is also the younger sister of Vasili von Holtz. Not much is known about her.

### Rahadin

Rahadin is a Dusk Elf and chamberlain of Strahd.