Overview
A long nave of pews under a sunburst window, an altar on its step, a vestry and a narrow stair down to the crypt where St. Andral's sarcophagus waits.
Resting: Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Vallaki: St. Andral's Church
- From St. Andral's Church: Down to the crypt
- From St. Andral's Church: Up to the church
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the churchyard |  Vallaki | |
| 2 | Out to the churchyard | Vallaki | |
| 3 | Down to the crypt |  St. Andral's Church | |
| 4 | Up to the church | St. Andral's Church |
Map
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
Old Varvara
Vestry chest
the altar
People
- Old Varvara, Praying at St. Andral's: Nave, 08:00–18:00 (#10)
Who turns up at points in the story (6)
- Father Lucian, Chancel (#5): when not (festival begun and not festival over)
- Ireena Kolyana, Nave (#6): when ireena sanctuary is “st andrals” and not ireena with the party
- Ismark Kolyanovich, Nave (#7): when ismark guards ireena and ireena sanctuary is “st andrals” and not ismark with the party
- Lydia Petrovna, Nave (#8): when vallaki backed is “wachter”
- Victor Vallakovich, Nave (#9): when vallaki backed is “wachter” and not victor vanished and not victor vallakovich with the party
- Stella Wachter, Vestry (#11): when stella at church
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Vestry chest | Holy Water, Candle ×6 | open it; Father Lucian's, so taking is theft |
| 13 | the saint's niche | Mace of Disruption (Mace) | open it; only when bones returned |
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 5 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | the altar | Religion 13 | Pray at the saint's altar | 1d8 temporary HP |
Fights
- Glass bursts inward along both walls of the nave. Pale shapes come through the windows head first, like…, in St. Andral's Church: Vampire Spawn, Swarm of Bats. Scales with your level. Part of The Bones of St. Andral.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- St. Andral's Church, when night and not coffin spawn destroyed and not church siege survived and not bones returned and level ≥ 5: 2 × Vampire Spawn, 2 × Swarm of Bats (3700 XP)
- St. Andral's Church, when night and not coffin spawn destroyed and not church siege survived and not bones returned and level ≥ 4: Vampire Spawn, 2 × Swarm of Bats (1900 XP)
- St. Andral's Church, when night and not coffin spawn destroyed and not church siege survived and not bones returned: Vampire Spawn, Swarm of Bats (1850 XP)
Quests and lore
- Carry the Dawn: On the morning of her vows the Morninglord showed Liriel Dawnsong a valley where the sun had not risen in four hundred years, and told her…
- Cold Prayers: Hedda Ironvow dreamed of a dying sun and a silver raven, and left her chapel before dawn to follow the dream. Since she crossed the mist,…
- Lady Wachter's Book Club: Lady Fiona Wachter wants the Baron's chair, and she is not shy about who she would rule for.
- Sanctuary: Ismark wanted Ireena behind walls. Vallaki has walls. Whether it has anywhere safe inside them is another question.
- The Attic Circle: The Baron's son Victor is trying to leave Barovia by magic, and it is not going well for the servants.
- The Bones of St. Andral: Someone has stolen the bones of St. Andral from the crypt of Vallaki's church, and with them the only thing that kept the dead out of it.
- The Cat in the Window: Lady Wachter keeps her daughter Stella locked in a bedroom at Wachterhaus. Stella believes she is a cat. Nobody in Vallaki believes she's…
- The Destined Ally: Madam Eva's fourth card named the one who will stand with us against the devil.
- The Doll Collector: Izek Strazni, the Baron's enforcer, has dreamed of a red-haired woman all his life, and has had her face carved over and over.
- The Festival of the Blazing Sun: Baron Vallakovich holds a festival every week to prove Vallaki is happy. This one, with its great wicker sun, will decide who rules the…
Church register
The register of St. Andral's, in Father Lucian's careful hand. Baptisms, few. Burials, many. A note on the inside cover: The saint lies below in the oak box in the sarcophagus; the gravedigger and I alone know the way of the lid. If I am taken, Milivoj will show my successor. Under it, a later line, pressed hard: May God forgive me for trusting a hungry boy.