# Blood of the Vine

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/blood-of-the-vine.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![loc blood of the vine 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-blood-of-the-vine-1.webp)
> **Region:** [The Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-village-of-barovia.md) · level 3
> **Resting:** Safe
> **Light:** dim
> **Getting here:** [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md)
> **Quests:** [Count Off](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/count-off.md), [Cut After Noon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/cut-after-noon.md), [Ireena's Escort](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/ireenas-escort.md), [Six Feet](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/six-feet.md) and 4 more

## Overview

The village's last tavern: a smoky common room, a bar with nearly empty casks, Ismark drinking alone and three Vistani women in the corner.

The only room in Barovia where people still talk, if quietly. The wine is Purple Grapemash No. 3, and there isn't much of it left.

**Resting:** Safe: a Long Rest here isn't interrupted.

![loc blood of the vine overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-blood-of-the-vine-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md):** Blood of the Vine

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the square | [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md) |  |

## Map

![blood of the vine](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/blood-of-the-vine.svg)

**Key:** gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.

### Close up

![loc blood of the vine spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-blood-of-the-vine-spot1.webp)
*Arik, Wine casks*

![loc blood of the vine spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-blood-of-the-vine-spot2.webp)
*Alenka, Mirabel, Sorvia*

![loc blood of the vine spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-blood-of-the-vine-spot3.webp)
*Scholar's satchel, a slit in the satchel's lining*

## People

- **[Arik](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/arik.md)**, Barkeep, Blood of the Vine: Behind the bar (#3)
- **[Alenka](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/alenka.md)**, Vistana: Common room (#4)
- **[Mirabel](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/mirabel.md)**, Vistana: Common room (#5)
- **[Sorvia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/sorvia.md)**, Vistana: Common room (#6)

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[Ismark Kolyanovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/ismark-kolyanovich.md)**, Common room (#2): when not ismark met

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Scholar's satchel | [Paper](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#paper) ×3, [Ink](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#ink), [Ink Pen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#ink-pen), 4 gp | locked, with nothing to pick |
| 10 | a slit in the satchel's lining (hidden) | [Eyes of Minute Seeing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#eyes-of-minute-seeing) | Search: Investigation DC 14 |

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 3 the first time you come ([Random Treasure](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/random-treasure.md)). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.

### Skill checks

| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Wine casks | Nature 12 | Judge the wine | lore: The wizard's wine |
| 9 | Hearth | Performance 13 | Play for the room by the hearth | 6 gp |

## Quests and lore

- [Count Off](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/count-off.md): Ilse Varga's mercenary company marched into the mists a year ago at the invitation of someone who signed himself S. She was meant to march…
- [Cut After Noon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/cut-after-noon.md): The woodcutters of Barovia cut what they need by noon and go home. Grigore's son stayed late, and brought something back.
- [Ireena's Escort](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/ireenas-escort.md): Strahd has fed on Ireena Kolyana twice. Her brother Ismark believes she'll be safer behind the walls of Vallaki, to the west.
- [Six Feet](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/six-feet.md): Old Mihail the sexton digs graves before anybody has died. There's always somebody by the end of the week.
- [The Burgomaster's Burial](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-burgomasters-burial.md): Kolyan Indirovich, burgomaster of the village of Barovia, died three nights ago. His children want him buried in the churchyard, and no…
- [The Lantern in the Roadhouse](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-lantern-in-the-roadhouse.md): The Grey Goose roadhouse burned twenty winters ago, and every night a lantern burns in its upstairs window, though there's no upstairs any…
- [The Polite Caller](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-polite-caller.md): Widow Ileana's husband Teodor died three winters ago and still knocks at her shutter every night. He has never once asked to be let in.
- [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-wizard-of-wines.md): Druids from Yester Hill have driven the Martikov family out of their winery and taken the magic gems, the family's three vine stones, that…

> [!quote]- A scholar's note
> Third night in the village. The barkeep has said eleven words to me, four of them 'wine'. I have the castle's outline drawn from three sides now, and a list of the windows that are lit. One is lit every night: high in the east tower, a library or I am no judge of shelving. Tomorrow I go up the road. If anyone finds this, send it to the college at Mirabar, where they still have my good pen. Tell them I was right. Tell them he knows I am reading. A. M.