# Vallaki

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc vallaki 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/vallaki.md) · level 5
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dim, outdoors
> **Getting here:** the travel map (Vallaki)
> **Quests:** [Black Roses](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md), [Count Off](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/count-off.md), [Ireena's Escort](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/ireenas-escort.md), [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md) and 12 more

## Overview

A walled town on the shore of Lake Zarovich, kept cheerful by order of its Baron: a sharpened palisade, a church whose saint has gone missing, an inn of ravens, and a square where a great wicker sun waits to be burned.

A palisade of sharpened logs rings the town. The Old Svalich Road comes in at the east gate and leaves by the west, past a Vistani camp outside the walls. The burgomaster's mansion, Wachterhaus and St. Andral's Church face the square from the north; the Blue Water Inn, the coffin maker and the lockup stand to the south.

**Resting:** Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **The travel map:** Vallaki, in Barovia.

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | East gate: the Old Svalich Road | the travel map |  |
| 2 | West gate: the Vistani camp | [The Vistani Camp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-vistani-camp.md) |  |
| 3 | The burgomaster's mansion | [The Burgomaster's Mansion](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-burgomasters-mansion.md) |  |
| 4 | St. Andral's Church | [St. Andral's Church](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/st-andrals-church.md) |  |
| 5 | Wachterhaus | [Wachterhaus](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/wachterhaus.md) |  |
| 6 | Blinsky Toys | [Blinsky Toys](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/blinsky-toys.md) | not night |
| 7 | The coffin maker's | [The Coffin Maker's Shop](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-coffin-makers-shop.md) | not night |
| 8 | The Blue Water Inn | [The Blue Water Inn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-blue-water-inn.md) |  |
| 9 | Haralamb's door | [Haralamb's Studio](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/haralambs-studio.md) | painter studio open |

## Map

![vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/vallaki.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 vallaki spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-spot1.webp)
*Festival Herald, the festival dais, a ring trodden into the mud by the stocks*

![loc vallaki spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-spot2.webp)
*Town Guard*

![loc vallaki spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-spot3.webp)
*A Big Dog*

## People

- **[Festival Herald](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/festival-herald.md)**, Crier of the Baron's Festivals: Town square (#16)
- **[Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/town-guard.md)**, Watchman of Vallaki: East gate (#24)
- **[Lockup Warden](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/lockup-warden.md)**, Keeper of the Baron's Lockup: Stockade and lockup (#28)
- **[A Big Dog](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/a-big-dog.md)**, Of the Town Square: Town square (#42)
- **[Old Sabin](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/old-sabin.md)**, Lantern-Maker of Vallaki: Market row, 08:00–18:00 (#45)

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (24)
> - **[Baron Vargas Vallakovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/baron-vargas-vallakovich.md)**, Town square (#10, #17, #18, #22): when festival begun and not festival climax; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “baron”; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “wachter”; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “town”; or when vallaki backed is “baron” and day; or when baron fate is “stocks”
> - **[Lydia Petrovna](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/lydia-petrovna.md)**, Town square (#11): when festival begun and not festival climax; or when festival climax and not festival over
> - **[Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/izek-strazni.md)**, Town square (#12, #25): when festival begun and not festival climax and not izek dead and not izek told truth; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “baron” and not izek dead and not izek told truth; or when vallaki backed is “baron” and day and not izek dead and not izek told truth; or when day and ireena with the party and not izek saw ireena and not festival begun and not izek dead and not izek told truth; or when day and not festival begun and not izek dead and not izek told truth
> - **[Lady Wachter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/lady-wachter.md)**, Town square (#13, #10, #19, #23): when festival begun and not festival climax; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “wachter”; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “baron”; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “town”; or when wachter fate is “stocks”
> - **[Father Lucian](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/father-lucian.md)**, Town square (#14, #20): when festival begun and not festival climax; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “town”
> - **[Urwin Martikov](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/urwin-martikov.md)**, Town square (#15, #21, #20): when festival begun and not festival climax; or when festival climax and not festival over and vallaki pledge is “town”; or when vallaki backed is “neither” and day
> - **[Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/town-guard.md)**, East gate (#24): when not vallaki arrived; or when vallaki arrived and ireena with the party and not quest.sanctuary for ireena
> - **[Milivoj](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/milivoj.md)**, St. Andral's churchyard (#26): when day and (not festival begun or festival over)
> - **[Gunther Arasek](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/gunther-arasek.md)**, Town square (#27): when day and (not festival begun or festival over)
> - **[Jory Fenn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/jory-fenn.md)**, Stockade and lockup (#29): when name ilse varga and not kestrel jory met; or when name ilse varga and kestrel jory met
> - **[Goodwife Marta](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/goodwife-marta.md)**, Market row (#30): when not weather is storm
> - **[Old Kolya](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/old-kolya.md)**, Lower town (#31): when not weather is storm
> - **[Ignat the Lamplighter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/ignat-the-lamplighter.md)**, Wachter lane (#32): when ilie fate isn't “lost”
> - **[Anton the Cooper](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/anton-the-cooper.md)**, Town square (#33): when vallaki stocks grumbler
> - **[Old Smaranda](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/old-smaranda.md)**, Market row (#34): when not weather is storm
> - **[Master Costel](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/master-costel.md)**, Market row (#35): when not weather is storm
> - **[Matei](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/matei.md)**, Before the Blue Water Inn (#36): when not weather is storm
> - **[Daciana](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/daciana.md)**, Main street, Town square (#37, #38): when dobre beaten and not ribbons resolved; or when not weather is storm and (not festival over or (quest.ribbons and not ribbons resolved))
> - **[Haralamb](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/haralamb.md)**, Town square, East row (#39, #47): when not festival begun and not weather is storm; or when level ≥ 9
> - **[Watchman Dobre](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/watchman-dobre.md)**, Main street (#40): when not dobre beaten
> - **[Gheorghe](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/gheorghe.md)**, Main street (#41): when not weather is storm
> - **[Catalina](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/catalina.md)**, Lower town (#43): when night and roses vigil and not ana met
> - **[Pyotr Petrov](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/pyotr-petrov.md)**, Lower town (#44): when quest.black roses and not weather is storm
> - **[Sandu](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/sandu.md)**, Market row (#46): when quest one lantern too many at home or quest one lantern too many at done

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | a ring trodden into the mud by the stocks (hidden) | [Ring of Protection](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#ring-of-protection) | Search: Perception DC 12 |
| 52 | a sack under the hovel's step (hidden) | [Heward's Handy Haversack](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#hewards-handy-haversack) | Search: Perception DC 14 |
| 54 | Something under the bench (hidden) | [String](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#string) | Search: Perception DC 13 |

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | the festival dais | Performance 14 | Perform on the festival dais | 20 gp |
| 49 | the Lake Gate | History 12 | Read the Lake Gate's carvings | lore: The founding of Vallaki |
| 50 | Churchyard graves | Religion 13 | Read the epitaphs | lore: Saint Andral |
| 53 | Old Smaranda's herb stall | Nature 15 | Pick the real herbs from the dross | Keoghtom's Ointment |

## Fights

- *Knives come out of sleeves all over the square. Lady Wachter's people were never here to watch the sun.*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tough.md), [Cultist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/cultist.md), [Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md), [Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md), [Bandit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit.md). Scales with your level. Part of [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not wachter cult broken and level ≥ 5: Nikolai Wachter ([Tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tough.md)), Karl Wachter ([Tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tough.md)), 4 × [Cultist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/cultist.md), Hired sword ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Wachter's captain ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), Karl's sword-master ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)) (1900 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not wachter cult broken and level ≥ 4: Nikolai Wachter ([Tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tough.md)), Karl Wachter ([Tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tough.md)), 6 × [Cultist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/cultist.md), Hired sword ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Wachter's captain ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)) (1500 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when wachter cult broken and level ≥ 5: 2 × Hired sword ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Wachter's captain ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 2 × Hired knife ([Bandit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit.md)) (1900 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when wachter cult broken and level ≥ 4: Hired sword ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Wachter's captain ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 4 × Hired knife ([Bandit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit.md)) (1250 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not wachter cult broken: Nikolai Wachter ([Tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tough.md)), Karl Wachter ([Tough](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tough.md)), 3 × [Cultist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/cultist.md), Wachter's captain ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)) (725 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: Wachter's captain ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 3 × Hired knife ([Bandit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit.md)) (525 XP)

- *Izek vaults off the dais with his strange arm already smoking. The Baron's watch closes ranks behind him.*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), [Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md), [Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md), [Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md). Scales with your level. Part of [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not izek dead and not izek told truth and level ≥ 5: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 4 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)), Captain of the watch ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)) (3050 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not izek dead and not izek told truth and level ≥ 4: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 4 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (2600 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 5: 2 × Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Captain of the watch ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 2 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (1900 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 4: Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Captain of the watch ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 4 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (1250 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not izek dead and not izek told truth: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), 3 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (1875 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: Captain of the watch ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 3 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (525 XP)

- *Izek's arm bursts into flame to the elbow. Most of the watch backs away from the priest; the ones who don't…*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), [Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md), [Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md), [Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not izek dead and not izek told truth and level ≥ 5: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Captain of the watch ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 2 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (3000 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not izek dead and not izek told truth and level ≥ 4: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 2 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (2550 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 5: 2 × Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), Captain of the watch ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), 2 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (1900 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 4: 2 × Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)) (1400 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when not izek dead and not izek told truth: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), 2 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (1850 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: Sergeant of the watch ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 2 × Town guard ([Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md)) (750 XP)

- *Izek steps down off the dais, flexing the arm that isn't his. A few of the watch step down with him.*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), [Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md). Scales with your level. Part of [The Doll Collector](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-doll-collector.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 5: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), 2 × Izek's sergeant ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)) (3200 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 4: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md), Izek's sergeant ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)) (2500 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: [Izek Strazni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/izek-strazni.md) (1800 XP)

- *The watch closes in, spears levelled.*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Town Guard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/town-guard.md).

- *Two more girls come over the rooftops at Catalina's call, barefoot, in nightgowns, their arms full of black…*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md), [Swarm of Bats](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-bats.md). Scales with your level. Part of [Black Roses](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 6: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Daria ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (5400 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 5: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), [Swarm of Bats](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-bats.md) (3650 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 4: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (3600 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), 2 × [Swarm of Bats](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-bats.md) (1900 XP)

- *The lids come up slowly. The three of them climb out into the grey daylight blinking and slow, like children…*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md), [Swarm of Bats](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-bats.md). Scales with your level. Part of [Black Roses](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when day and level ≥ 6: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Daria ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (5400 XP; surprise: enemies)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when day and level ≥ 5: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Daria ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (5400 XP; surprise: enemies)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when day: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (3600 XP; surprise: enemies)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 6: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Daria ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (5400 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 5: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), [Swarm of Bats](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-bats.md) (3650 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: Catalina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Irina ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (3600 XP)

- *Two of Dobre's lads come round the corner at a run, and two more out of the guardhouse, and none of them are…*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 6: Watchman Dobre ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 4 × Dobre's lad ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)) (3500 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 5: Watchman Dobre ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 3 × Dobre's lad ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)) (2800 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: Watchman Dobre ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 2 × Dobre's lad ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)) (2100 XP)

- *The rider wheels his black horse in the gateway and comes back in, drawing a sabre, while Dobre's lads come…*, in [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md): [Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md), [Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md), [Scout](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/scout.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 6: Watchman Dobre ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 4 × Dobre's lad ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), The Rider on the Black Horse ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), Rider's Man ([Scout](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/scout.md)) (4050 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**, when level ≥ 5: Watchman Dobre ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 3 × Dobre's lad ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), The Rider on the Black Horse ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), Rider's Man ([Scout](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/scout.md)) (3350 XP)
> - **[Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)**: Watchman Dobre ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), 2 × Dobre's lad ([Warrior Veteran](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/warrior-veteran.md)), The Rider on the Black Horse ([Bandit Captain](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/bandit-captain.md)), Rider's Man ([Scout](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/scout.md)) (2650 XP)

## Quests and lore

- [Black Roses](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md): Last winter Ignat the lamplighter's daughter Catalina was found smiling and white at the lake gate, and black roses came with a card. This…
- [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…
- [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.
- [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md): Lady Fiona Wachter wants the Baron's chair, and she is not shy about who she would rule for.
- [One Lantern Too Many](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/one-lantern-too-many.md): Every festival week the children of Vallaki carry paper lanterns round the square for the Baron. Thirty-one children. Thirty-two lanterns.
- [Ribbons](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/ribbons.md): Daciana gives out yellow festival ribbons in Vallaki's square and writes down everyone who won't wear one. It isn't her who wants to know.
- [Sanctuary](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/sanctuary.md): Ismark wanted Ireena behind walls. Vallaki has walls. Whether it has anywhere safe inside them is another question.
- [The Attic Circle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-attic-circle.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-bones-of-st-andral.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-cat-in-the-window.md): 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 Count's Portraitist](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-counts-portraitist.md): Haralamb, who paints the Baron's wicker sun, was fetched to the castle and kept eleven nights painting a woman from the count's memory. He…
- [The Destined Ally](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-destined-ally.md): Madam Eva's fourth card named the one who will stand with us against the devil.
- [The Doll Collector](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-doll-collector.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-festival-of-the-blazing-sun.md): Baron Vallakovich holds a festival every week to prove Vallaki is happy. This one, with its great wicker sun, will decide who rules the…
- [The Missing Girl](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-missing-girl.md): Arabelle, the young daughter of the Vistani headman Luvash, vanished from the camp outside Vallaki in the night.
- [The Toymaker's Masterpiece](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-toymakers-masterpiece.md): Gadof Blinsky, Vallaki's toymaker, has wanted all his life to see the clockwork jester his master's master made for the count's children.

> [!quote]- Festival notice
> BY ORDER OF THE BARON VARGAS VALLAKOVICH, BURGOMASTER: The FESTIVAL OF THE BLAZING SUN will be held in the town square at noon. Every citizen will attend. Every citizen will be glad. A great sun of wicker will be lit to remind the sky what it is for. Frowning, muttering and remarks about the weather will be noted by the watch. ALL WILL BE WELL.

> [!quote]- Decree on the fence (when not festival over)
> DECREE OF THE BURGOMASTER, the ninth this month: Malcontents found spreading gloom shall spend one day in the stocks, or two if they spread it there. Lamps out at the second bell. The gates close at dusk. Gossip about the castle is gloom. Gossip about the weather is gloom. Gossip about the Baron is treason.

> [!quote]- Decree on the fence (when vallaki backed is “baron”)
> DECREE OF THE BURGOMASTER: The traitor Fiona Wachter has been taken in the act and set in the stocks for the town's instruction. Her house is forfeit to the festival fund. The next festival will be held on the seventh day, and it will be the best yet. ALL IS WELL, as was foretold.

> [!quote]- Proclamation on the fence (when vallaki backed is “wachter”)
> PROCLAMATION OF THE BURGOMISTRESS, LADY FIONA WACHTER: There will be no more festivals. Citizens may frown as they please. The curfew stands. The town gives thanks to its rightful lord for its deliverance, and will show him every courtesy when he calls.

> [!quote]- Council notice (when vallaki backed is “neither”)
> NOTICE: Until the town chooses otherwise, Vallaki is kept by a council of its householders, with Father Lucian Petrovich and Urwin Martikov to speak for it. The stocks are firewood. The curfew stands, because the night has not changed its mind. Bring grievances to the church steps, sober.