Side Quests

91 side quests, by region and the party level they're built for. Most start from a rumour: ask the townsfolk Heard anything interesting?

Into the Mists (level 1)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Last Muster	Marshal Dragomir	Every night, riders made of bones go east along the Old Svalich Road to the Gates of Barovia, and none of them comes back.
The Last Traveller	Ilarion	A young man in rags and beautiful boots sits at the edge of the mists on the Old Svalich Road, asking what day it is.

Death House (level 2)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Rest for Rose and Thorn	Rose	The Durst children died in their locked attic room, and their ghosts are still waiting there for someone to come back for them.

The Village of Barovia (level 3)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Cut After Noon	Grigore	The woodcutters of Barovia cut what they need by noon and go home. Grigore's son stayed late, and brought something back.
Mary's Daughter	Mad Mary	Mad Mary's daughter Gertruda, sixteen and never once allowed outside, slipped out of the house a few nights ago and hasn't come back.
Six Feet	Old Mihail	Old Mihail the sexton digs graves before anybody has died. There's always somebody by the end of the week.
The Burgomaster's Hound	Lupu	The dead burgomaster's wolfhound howls every night at the mansion's study wall, not at the wolves.
The Goatherd's Count	Goodwife Petra	Goodwife Petra's grandson Erno counts one more goat every evening on the high pasture than he owns.
The Nursemaid's Grave	Old Mihail	Old Mihail the gravedigger says a girl in a nursemaid's cap stands at the churchyard wall by night and won't come in. Nobody ever brought her to him.
The Oat Thief	Bildrath Cantemir	Somebody is stealing four sacks of oats a week from Bildrath's back room, and the lock is never touched.
The Polite Caller	Widow Ileana	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 Priest's Son	Father Donavich	Screams rise from beneath the village church. Father Donavich's son Doru came back from Castle Ravenloft as something else, and his father keeps him locked below.

The Old Svalich Road (level 4)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Called by Name	Big Tobar	Big Tobar's son went into the trees after his dead mother's voice. Every night since, a voice from the gorge under Tser Falls has called his father in the boy's.
The Count's Huntsman	Old Paraschiva	On cold nights a horn sounds in the Svalich woods, and in the morning whoever the count is displeased with lies under the crossroads gallows, run to death.
The Dancing Bear	Lavinia	Lavinia's bear Bujor, who has danced on the Tser Pool camp's stage for nine years, broke his chain in the night and went up into the woods.
The Grey Mare	Radu	The black carriage that drives itself stopped by Radu's horse pen, and left a purse on the gatepost. Now his best mare is tied at the crossroads, waiting for midnight.
The Hanged Man at the Crossroads	Luminita	A young Vistana hangs from the gallows where the Old Svalich Road crosses the Ivlis, and a girl at Tser Pool is waiting for her brother to come home.
The Lantern in the Roadhouse	Arik	The Grey Goose roadhouse burned twenty winters ago, and every night a lantern burns in its upstairs window, though there's no upstairs any more.
The Spiders' Gully	Iancu	Iancu's cousin Tsura rode the falls path with a letter three days ago. Her horse came home with web on its saddle.
The Tinker's Wagon	Iosif the Tinker	A Vistani tinker sells trinkets from a green wagon at the crossroads, and the travellers who buy from him don't come back down the road.

Vallaki (level 5)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Black Roses	Ignat the Lamplighter	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 morning there were black roses on the chandler's step.
Lady Wachter's Book Club	Lady Wachter	Lady Fiona Wachter wants the Baron's chair, and she is not shy about who she would rule for.
One Lantern Too Many	Old Sabin	Every festival week the children of Vallaki carry paper lanterns round the square for the Baron. Thirty-one children. Thirty-two lanterns.
Ribbons	Daciana	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.
The Attic Circle	Lydia Petrovna	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	Father Lucian	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	Stella Wachter	Lady Wachter keeps her daughter Stella locked in a bedroom at Wachterhaus. Stella believes she is a cat. Nobody in Vallaki believes she's ill.
The Count's Portraitist	Haralamb	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 can't stop painting her.
The Doll Collector	Izek Strazni	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 Hunters at the Inn	Szoldar	Two hunters in the corner of the Blue Water Inn sell wolf ears to the Baron at a copper apiece, and want help with the one wolf he pays three hundred gold for.
The Missing Girl	Luvash	Arabelle, the young daughter of the Vistani headman Luvash, vanished from the camp outside Vallaki in the night.
The Ravens' Ransom	Urwin Martikov	Urwin and Danika Martikov's younger boy flew out of the inn's window after dark to look at the castle, and didn't come home.
The Toymaker's Masterpiece	Gadof Blinsky	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.

Old Bonegrinder (level 6)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Children in the Mill	Ilinca Vrana	Two children from the village under the castle are caged in the loft of Old Bonegrinder, the windmill where Morgantha and her daughters bake their dream pastries.
The Fourth Sister	Mouse	Once Morgantha is dead, a girl sells plain pastries on the miller's lane below Old Bonegrinder, and says her Granny is coming for her thirteenth birthday.

The Wizard of Wines (level 6)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Black Row	Davian Martikov	Once the Martikovs are home, the Seventh Row of their vineyard comes up black every night, and every morning it has been picked bare.
The Son Who Didn't Fly	Stefania Martikov	Davian Martikov has never forgiven his son Adrian for coming home alone from Yester Hill, where his youngest, Elvir, was taken.
The Third Stone	Davian Martikov	The third of the Martikovs' vine stones, the winery's magic gems, was stolen last autumn and carried to Berez, the drowned village, where a witch lives.
The Wizard of Wines	Davian Martikov	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 keep its vines alive.

Krezk (level 7)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Clovin's Audience	Clovin Belview	Clovin Belview, the abbey's errand-runner, has written jokes for forty years and wants to tell them once to people who could choose not to laugh. Krezk won't open its gate to a Belview.
Lighter Than It Should Be	Anna Krezkova	Somebody leaves carved toys on the five Krezkov graves at the Pool of the White Sun every night. Nobody in Krezk carves like that.
The Burgomaster's Son	Anna Krezkova	Ilya Krezkov, the burgomaster's last child, has been burning with fever for a month.
The Gate of Krezk	Krezk Watchman	Krezk keeps its gate shut to strangers. It opens for a reason, and the burgomaster decides what a reason is.
The One-Horned Billy	Dragos	The one-horned billy goat in Krezk's pens belongs to nobody, because nobody is brave enough. He turned up last spring, already grown, with a ring on his horn.
The Pack's Runt	Little Petru	Of the five children brought home from the werewolves' den, the smallest came home different, and something big circles the farms below Krezk's wall.
The Pool of the White Sun	Ireena Kolyana	At the pool in Krezk, Ireena saw a young man in the water who knew her by another name.
The Waystone	Clovin Belview	Every night somebody goes over the Abbey wall and down the Krezk road to light the candle at the old sunburst waystone.

The Abbey of St. Markovia (level 7)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Mother's Ninth Improvement	Mother	Mother, the Belviews' matriarch, hasn't left the abbey since she was carried up the mountain as a baby. Now that the Abbot is done improving, she wants to go down to Krezk.
The Abbot's Bride	The Abbot	The Abbot of St. Markovia is stitching a bride for the lord of Barovia from Krezk's dead, and believes a wife will cure him.

Yester Hill (level 7)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Barrow on Yester Hill	Freydis	The druids dug the mountain folk's dead out of the mounds at the foot of Yester Hill and stacked their skulls up the slope. Freydis has come for her grandmother.
The Druid Who Came Back	Davian Martikov	Davian's pickers watch a lantern go round and round the crown of Yester Hill at night, where the Gulthias tree burned, like somebody digging.

Argynvostholt (level 8)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Dragon's Beacon	Argynvost	Argynvost lit a beacon at the top of his tower every night so the valley would know someone was keeping watch. It has been dark since he died.
The Order of the Silver Dragon	Sir Godfrey Gwilym	The dead knights of Argynvostholt still keep their watch for a dragon four hundred years gone. Their commander hates Strahd too much to let him die.
The Silver Hoard	Sir Godfrey Gwilym	Argynvost gave his hoard away: every Midwinter the Order left a silver coin on every doorstep in the valley. The last winter's tithe never went out.
The Squire	Cosmin	A Vallaki boy has run away to Argynvostholt to swear the dead Order's oath, and since the Order won't take the living, he means to wait on the squires' graves until he's dead.

Lake Zarovich (level 8)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Baron's Island	Old Nistor	Some nights the Baron's boat rows out to the Reed Isle on Lake Zarovich with somebody tied up in it, and rows back with nobody.
The Bell Under the Lake	Old Nistor	Old Nistor, the last fisherman on Lake Zarovich, says the fish went deep forty years ago. He knows why, and he's never told anyone.

The Werewolf Den (level 8)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Children in the Pen	Mirela	Five children taken from the farms below Krezk, kept in a pen in the werewolves' den until their first moon.
The Pack in the Hills	Zuleika Toranescu	A pack of werewolves dens in the hills above Lake Zarovich. Its leader serves the castle, and its old leader hangs in chains for refusing to.

Van Richten's Tower (level 8)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Drowned Library	Mordenkainen	Something whispers up the old well on the shore of Lake Baratok, from the archmage Khazan's library under the lake: don't come down.
The Hunter's Tower	Ezmerelda d'Avenir	A dead archmage's tower on an island in Lake Baratok, kept now by Rudolph van Richten and warded against one person in particular.
The Name Over the Door	Mordenkainen	Mordenkainen says the archmage who built the tower on the tarn never died: he moved downstairs, and he's waking.

Berez (level 9)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Witch of Berez	Baba Lysaga	In the drowned village of Berez, Strahd's old nurse keeps house in a hut that walks, with one of the Wizard of Wines' stolen gems and a secret about a dead girl.

Mount Baratok (level 9)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Forgotten Storm	The Mad Mage	Every evening lightning lands on the ring of glass on Mount Baratok. The mage told it something once, and it's still doing it.
The Mad Mage of Mount Baratok	The Mad Mage	A powerful wizard lives alone on Mount Baratok with his memory gone. Someone took it on purpose.
The Mage's Lost Pages	Mordenkainen	Mordenkainen's memory came back with pages missing: letters in a hand he knows better than his own, and no name with it.

The Tsolenka Pass (level 9)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Frozen Pilgrims	Sergeant Dorin Valcu	Nine pilgrims from Vallaki went up the Tsolenka Pass forty years ago to ask the Amber Temple never to be cold again. Their lamp came back down. They didn't.
The Last Egg	Tibor	Tibor the egg-hunter, camped at the Tsolenka landing, says the roc of Mount Ghakis lays once in eleven years, and this is the year. He has a buyer.
The Tsolenka Gate	Sergeant Dorin Valcu	The road to the Amber Temple crosses the Tsolenka Pass, through a guard tower whose portcullis has been down for centuries.

Castle Ravenloft (level 10)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Escher's Petition	Escher	Every night for nine years Escher has slid the same petition under the count's door: let me see the sun. Now an answer has come back.
The Cook's Guests	Cyrus Belview	Below Castle Ravenloft's kitchen, the cook keeps his Master's guests fresh in the cells.
The Heart of Sorrow	Escher	At the top of Castle Ravenloft's high tower hangs a crystal heart that takes Strahd's wounds before he does.
The Jester's Key	Pidlwick II	Pidlwick II, the clockwork jester of the high tower, is running down: the ravens took his wind-up key.
The Unnamed Crypt	Pidlwick II	One crypt in Castle Ravenloft's catacombs has no name on it, and something in it holds the count's doors.

Mount Ghakis (level 10)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
The Mountain's Heart	Freydis	The mountain folk say Grandfather Stone, asleep in Mount Ghakis, is walking, since the count's men cut a quarry in the mountain's south face.
The Warm Snow	Sergeant Dorin Valcu	Sergeant Valcu's log has forty years of smoke on the north shoulder of Mount Ghakis, snow that melts in midwinter, and the count's cart going up every new moon with a cage on the back.

The Amber Temple (level 10)

Quest	Given by	What it's about
Something with a Lid	Exethanter	Exethanter, the forgetful lich of the Amber Temple, has lost his phylactery. He hid it very cleverly.
The Amber Debt	Exethanter	Exethanter has an old note pinned under all the others, in his own hand: DO NOT GO BELOW THE VAULT. YOU SEALED IT. YOU DO NOT REMEMBER WHY. THAT IS WHY.
The Amber Temple		High above the Tsolenka Pass, a temple of amber where dead powers talk and bargain, and where the lord of the valley once made his.
The Guide to the Temple	Sergeant Dorin Valcu	Since the Tsolenka gate opened, a man has led three parties up the goat path toward the Amber Temple and come down alone each time.
The Wailing Hall		In the frozen reading hall of the Amber Temple, a dead woman weeps over a book that will not stay whole.

Companions

Quest	Given by	What it's about
A Knight, More or Less		Sir Godrick Pendlebrook was knighted on a deathbed with a soup ladle. He carries his old master's sword into the mists to have it done properly, by the Order of the Silver Dragon.
A Seat at the Table		Ratatouille learned magic so that people would sit with him. He crossed the mists to apprentice himself to the Wizard of Wines, a master of the arcane and the table both.
Aurel's Last Chapter		Silvain Aster's colleague Aurel Mirescu went into the mists after a book written in a vampire's own hand, and wrote home exactly once: He knows I am reading.
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 to carry the dawn there.
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, her god has been very far away.
Count Off		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 with them.
Grandda's Trail		Thistle was raised in the deep woods by a trapper called Fen Burley. He followed a wolf the size of a pony into a wall of fog and never came back. She followed his trail blazes in.
The Fine Print		Kip Smudgewick signed a devil's contract to save his family's apricot orchard. The devil has offered him one way out: a signature from the lord of a land of mists.
The Last Lesson		Wren Featherfoot's old master, a dusk elf called Sorrel, died before Wren's training was finished, and left him one errand: a sealed letter for a brother named Kasimir, in the valley where the sun does not rise.
The Woman in the Locket		Tamsin Tealeaf lifted a silver locket from a coach with no driver and no horses he could hear. The woman painted inside it has called his name in his dreams ever since.