The Tarokka Reading

Madam Eva's reading at Tser Pool decides where three treasures lie, who your destined ally is and where Strahd waits at the end. Each card drawn sets one of them. The reading is random per playthrough; the journal keeps her verses (The Seer at Tser Pool).

The Tome of Strahd

Card	Where it is	Her verse
Avenger	Argynvostholt, the dragon's ruined manor: in the keeping of the dead knight who commands it.	Where a silver dragon once kept his hall, a captain with no heartbeat keeps a grudge instead. It lies within reach of that grudge.
Paladin	Castle Ravenloft's crypts, in the tomb of Strahd's murdered younger brother.	Two brothers: one walked into the dark, the other was put into the ground. Look where the good one sleeps.
Soldier	The Tsolenka Pass: the guard tower above the mountain road.	High where the road climbs over the mountain's shoulder, a pale tower keeps a gate that nobody uses. Its sentries have not blinked in years.
Mercenary	Castle Ravenloft's treasury, under heaps of gold.	It lies where a lord counts what he has never needed, buried under coin heaped like snowdrifts.
Myrmidon	The werewolves' den in the hills above Lake Zarovich, at their shrine to Mother Night.	Follow the howling into the high hills above the cold lake. The wolves keep a mother there who never bore them.
Berserker	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the crypt of a general once called the Mad Dog.	Among his honoured dead lies a general whose own men called him a mad hound. It is in his tomb, under him.
Hooded One	The Amber Temple, high in the mountains, beside the statue with no face.	Climb to where the snow never melts and the air won't fill your lungs. There is a temple there, and a great statue whose sculptor never finished the face. Look at its feet.
Dictator	Castle Ravenloft, at the throne in the audience hall.	A seat made for one, in a hall made for the many who were meant to kneel before it.
Torturer	Vallaki, the burgomaster's mansion: a locked room full of dolls.	Behind a town's bright banners stands a house where something has gone wrong, and in it a room crowded with small, still faces. Every one of them is hers.
Warrior	Castle Ravenloft, deepest of all: in Strahd's own tomb.	It lies in the room where he sleeps the day away, beneath everything, guarded by the oldest dark in the valley.
Transmuter	Castle Ravenloft, at the top of its highest tower, among the stone guardians.	Climb his highest tower until your knees shake, and mind the carvings on the parapet. Not all of them are carvings.
Diviner	Madam Eva's tent at Tser Pool. She kept it for us.	You need not walk far. It has been under my own canvas all along, waiting for the hands the cards would send.
Enchanter	Berez, the drowned village: at the stone monument to a girl named Marina.	In a village the river swallowed, the mud remembers a girl he loved once, and keeps her in stone. Ask the hag who rules the reeds.
Abjurer	Argynvostholt, at the top of its dark beacon tower.	The dragon's house has a lamp at its crown that nobody lights any more. Climb to where the light should be.
Elementalist	The Amber Temple, past the amber guardians at its doors.	Far up the mountain road a door is cut into the rock, and two great figures the colour of old resin stand on either side of it. It waits just past them.
Evoker	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the crypt of a minor wizard; his wand is the key.	A small magician sleeps among the castle's grand dead, remembered by nothing but his name on a stone. What he carried in his hand unlocks what he guards.
Illusionist	Vallaki: in the locked carnival wagon of the showman staying at the Blue Water Inn.	A ringmaster has rolled into the walled town with a painted wagon he lets nobody near. Ask yourself what a showman keeps locked up that he never shows.
Necromancer	Castle Ravenloft, in the room where a woman's portrait hangs above the fireplace.	In his house a lady made of paint and varnish keeps her place above the hearth. She has watched it burn for centuries. Look where she looks.
Conjurer	Berez: in the hut of the witch Baba Lysaga.	Where the river ate a village whole, an old woman keeps house on the wreck, singing to the child she raised long ago. Take it from her kitchen.
Wizard	The old wizard's tower on Lake Baratok; his name opens it.	A tower stands in a cold mountain lake, and the mage who built it is long dead. Its door still answers to him, and to the one who served him. Find out who they were.
Swashbuckler	Castle Ravenloft: a warrior's tomb watched by gargoyles.	Somewhere in his house a famous killer is laid out on a stone slab, with winged stone guardians crouched at his head and his feet. He won't miss it.
Philanthropist	The Abbey of St. Markovia above Krezk, in its old wards.	Above the walled village stands a holy house that has become a kennel for madness. Look in the rooms where the young were once kept.
Trader	The Wizard of Wines winery, in the press house among the vines.	Follow the vines to the house that pressed the valley's last good wine. A bargain was struck there that nobody has paid.
Merchant	The Wizard of Wines: in an emptied cask in the winery's cellars.	Somewhere a barrel that held the best vintage in the valley stands as dry as a skull. Knock on it.
Guild Member	Castle Ravenloft: a dark cellar of bottles that is also somebody's tomb.	Down where his wine sleeps in racks, one rack holds no wine. A tradesman was walled in among the bottles, and it is with him.
Beggar	The Vistani camp outside Vallaki, with the grieving dusk elf.	Among the wagons outside the walled town sits an elf with dusk-dark skin who mourns a sister. He keeps it, and he will trade it for a road into the mountains.
Thief	The churchyard in the village of Barovia, among the graves.	Go back the way you came, to the village, and dig where the mourners stand. It sleeps under somebody else's name.
Tax Collector	The Vistani camp outside Vallaki, in their chief's locked chest; his missing daughter is the key.	It rides in a wagon of my cousins by the lake town, in a chest whose owner has lost a daughter. Bring the girl home, and the lid will open for you.
Miser	Castle Ravenloft: hidden behind a hearth, deep inside the keep.	Find the hearth in his keep that is always burning, and ask why a dead man needs a fire. Behind it is something he keeps and never spends.
Rogue	Castle Ravenloft, among the ravens' nests under its roofs.	Follow the birds that will not leave his roofs. Where they sleep, a clever hand tucked something bright among the twigs.
Monk	The Abbey of St. Markovia above Krezk, behind its sunburst.	A holy woman's house stands above the walled village, and its brightest symbol hides a hollow. Look behind the light.
Missionary	The abbey garden above Krezk: inside the scarecrow.	Where frost lies on the beds of a walled garden, a man of straw stands sentry with a stitched mouth. He holds it closer than any gardener would.
Healer	Krezk: in the blessed pool beside the shrine of the White Sun.	Beyond the last gate in the valley, where the walls keep out everything but snow, there is water that remembers the sun. Wade in.
Shepherd	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the tomb of his mother, Queen Ravenovia.	Go to the woman who bore him. She sleeps beneath his house, and she has kept this for her son's enemies.
Druid	Yester Hill, at the foot of the evil tree the druids tend.	West of the vines the old dead are heaped into a hill, and from them grows one tree that drinks wrongly. Those who go there in green worship it. Go anyway.
Anarchist	Castle Ravenloft's dungeon, in a hall built of bones.	Somewhere in his pits, his old enemies were made into furniture. Sit at their table, and mind the lamp.
Charlatan	The old windmill on the Vallaki road that the villagers call the Bonegrinder.	A windmill leans on a crag above the road with its sails stopped. Something in it bakes, and something in it cries.
Bishop	The Amber Temple, in a treasure heap beyond its amber doors.	In the mountain's golden halls, behind a door that glows like honey held to a candle, the gifts of forgotten gods lie heaped up. It is among them.
Traitor	Vallaki: locked away in Lady Wachter's house, beside a set of old bones.	Behind the walled town's finest door, a widow raises a glass to the castle every night. Her strongbox holds it, and an old enemy's bones keep it company.
Priest	Castle Ravenloft, in the ruined chapel.	In his house there is a room built for kneeling, and nobody has knelt there in centuries. Look under the dust of its last prayer.

The Holy Symbol of Ravenkind

Card	Where it is	Her verse
Avenger	Argynvostholt, the dragon's ruined manor: in the keeping of the dead knight who commands it.	Where a silver dragon once kept his hall, a captain with no heartbeat keeps a grudge instead. It lies within reach of that grudge.
Paladin	Castle Ravenloft's crypts, in the tomb of Strahd's murdered younger brother.	Two brothers: one walked into the dark, the other was put into the ground. Look where the good one sleeps.
Soldier	The Tsolenka Pass: the guard tower above the mountain road.	High where the road climbs over the mountain's shoulder, a pale tower keeps a gate that nobody uses. Its sentries have not blinked in years.
Mercenary	Castle Ravenloft's treasury, under heaps of gold.	It lies where a lord counts what he has never needed, buried under coin heaped like snowdrifts.
Myrmidon	The werewolves' den in the hills above Lake Zarovich, at their shrine to Mother Night.	Follow the howling into the high hills above the cold lake. The wolves keep a mother there who never bore them.
Berserker	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the crypt of a general once called the Mad Dog.	Among his honoured dead lies a general whose own men called him a mad hound. It is in his tomb, under him.
Hooded One	The Amber Temple, high in the mountains, beside the statue with no face.	Climb to where the snow never melts and the air won't fill your lungs. There is a temple there, and a great statue whose sculptor never finished the face. Look at its feet.
Dictator	Castle Ravenloft, at the throne in the audience hall.	A seat made for one, in a hall made for the many who were meant to kneel before it.
Torturer	Vallaki, the burgomaster's mansion: a locked room full of dolls.	Behind a town's bright banners stands a house where something has gone wrong, and in it a room crowded with small, still faces. Every one of them is hers.
Warrior	Castle Ravenloft, deepest of all: in Strahd's own tomb.	It lies in the room where he sleeps the day away, beneath everything, guarded by the oldest dark in the valley.
Transmuter	Castle Ravenloft, at the top of its highest tower, among the stone guardians.	Climb his highest tower until your knees shake, and mind the carvings on the parapet. Not all of them are carvings.
Diviner	Madam Eva's tent at Tser Pool. She kept it for us.	You need not walk far. It has been under my own canvas all along, waiting for the hands the cards would send.
Enchanter	Berez, the drowned village: at the stone monument to a girl named Marina.	In a village the river swallowed, the mud remembers a girl he loved once, and keeps her in stone. Ask the hag who rules the reeds.
Abjurer	Argynvostholt, at the top of its dark beacon tower.	The dragon's house has a lamp at its crown that nobody lights any more. Climb to where the light should be.
Elementalist	The Amber Temple, past the amber guardians at its doors.	Far up the mountain road a door is cut into the rock, and two great figures the colour of old resin stand on either side of it. It waits just past them.
Evoker	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the crypt of a minor wizard; his wand is the key.	A small magician sleeps among the castle's grand dead, remembered by nothing but his name on a stone. What he carried in his hand unlocks what he guards.
Illusionist	Vallaki: in the locked carnival wagon of the showman staying at the Blue Water Inn.	A ringmaster has rolled into the walled town with a painted wagon he lets nobody near. Ask yourself what a showman keeps locked up that he never shows.
Necromancer	Castle Ravenloft, in the room where a woman's portrait hangs above the fireplace.	In his house a lady made of paint and varnish keeps her place above the hearth. She has watched it burn for centuries. Look where she looks.
Conjurer	Berez: in the hut of the witch Baba Lysaga.	Where the river ate a village whole, an old woman keeps house on the wreck, singing to the child she raised long ago. Take it from her kitchen.
Wizard	The old wizard's tower on Lake Baratok; his name opens it.	A tower stands in a cold mountain lake, and the mage who built it is long dead. Its door still answers to him, and to the one who served him. Find out who they were.
Swashbuckler	Castle Ravenloft: a warrior's tomb watched by gargoyles.	Somewhere in his house a famous killer is laid out on a stone slab, with winged stone guardians crouched at his head and his feet. He won't miss it.
Philanthropist	The Abbey of St. Markovia above Krezk, in its old wards.	Above the walled village stands a holy house that has become a kennel for madness. Look in the rooms where the young were once kept.
Trader	The Wizard of Wines winery, in the press house among the vines.	Follow the vines to the house that pressed the valley's last good wine. A bargain was struck there that nobody has paid.
Merchant	The Wizard of Wines: in an emptied cask in the winery's cellars.	Somewhere a barrel that held the best vintage in the valley stands as dry as a skull. Knock on it.
Guild Member	Castle Ravenloft: a dark cellar of bottles that is also somebody's tomb.	Down where his wine sleeps in racks, one rack holds no wine. A tradesman was walled in among the bottles, and it is with him.
Beggar	The Vistani camp outside Vallaki, with the grieving dusk elf.	Among the wagons outside the walled town sits an elf with dusk-dark skin who mourns a sister. He keeps it, and he will trade it for a road into the mountains.
Thief	The churchyard in the village of Barovia, among the graves.	Go back the way you came, to the village, and dig where the mourners stand. It sleeps under somebody else's name.
Tax Collector	The Vistani camp outside Vallaki, in their chief's locked chest; his missing daughter is the key.	It rides in a wagon of my cousins by the lake town, in a chest whose owner has lost a daughter. Bring the girl home, and the lid will open for you.
Miser	Castle Ravenloft: hidden behind a hearth, deep inside the keep.	Find the hearth in his keep that is always burning, and ask why a dead man needs a fire. Behind it is something he keeps and never spends.
Rogue	Castle Ravenloft, among the ravens' nests under its roofs.	Follow the birds that will not leave his roofs. Where they sleep, a clever hand tucked something bright among the twigs.
Monk	The Abbey of St. Markovia above Krezk, behind its sunburst.	A holy woman's house stands above the walled village, and its brightest symbol hides a hollow. Look behind the light.
Missionary	The abbey garden above Krezk: inside the scarecrow.	Where frost lies on the beds of a walled garden, a man of straw stands sentry with a stitched mouth. He holds it closer than any gardener would.
Healer	Krezk: in the blessed pool beside the shrine of the White Sun.	Beyond the last gate in the valley, where the walls keep out everything but snow, there is water that remembers the sun. Wade in.
Shepherd	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the tomb of his mother, Queen Ravenovia.	Go to the woman who bore him. She sleeps beneath his house, and she has kept this for her son's enemies.
Druid	Yester Hill, at the foot of the evil tree the druids tend.	West of the vines the old dead are heaped into a hill, and from them grows one tree that drinks wrongly. Those who go there in green worship it. Go anyway.
Anarchist	Castle Ravenloft's dungeon, in a hall built of bones.	Somewhere in his pits, his old enemies were made into furniture. Sit at their table, and mind the lamp.
Charlatan	The old windmill on the Vallaki road that the villagers call the Bonegrinder.	A windmill leans on a crag above the road with its sails stopped. Something in it bakes, and something in it cries.
Bishop	The Amber Temple, in a treasure heap beyond its amber doors.	In the mountain's golden halls, behind a door that glows like honey held to a candle, the gifts of forgotten gods lie heaped up. It is among them.
Traitor	Vallaki: locked away in Lady Wachter's house, beside a set of old bones.	Behind the walled town's finest door, a widow raises a glass to the castle every night. Her strongbox holds it, and an old enemy's bones keep it company.
Priest	Castle Ravenloft, in the ruined chapel.	In his house there is a room built for kneeling, and nobody has knelt there in centuries. Look under the dust of its last prayer.

The Sunsword

Card	Where it is	Her verse
Avenger	Argynvostholt, the dragon's ruined manor: in the keeping of the dead knight who commands it.	Where a silver dragon once kept his hall, a captain with no heartbeat keeps a grudge instead. It lies within reach of that grudge.
Paladin	Castle Ravenloft's crypts, in the tomb of Strahd's murdered younger brother.	Two brothers: one walked into the dark, the other was put into the ground. Look where the good one sleeps.
Soldier	The Tsolenka Pass: the guard tower above the mountain road.	High where the road climbs over the mountain's shoulder, a pale tower keeps a gate that nobody uses. Its sentries have not blinked in years.
Mercenary	Castle Ravenloft's treasury, under heaps of gold.	It lies where a lord counts what he has never needed, buried under coin heaped like snowdrifts.
Myrmidon	The werewolves' den in the hills above Lake Zarovich, at their shrine to Mother Night.	Follow the howling into the high hills above the cold lake. The wolves keep a mother there who never bore them.
Berserker	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the crypt of a general once called the Mad Dog.	Among his honoured dead lies a general whose own men called him a mad hound. It is in his tomb, under him.
Hooded One	The Amber Temple, high in the mountains, beside the statue with no face.	Climb to where the snow never melts and the air won't fill your lungs. There is a temple there, and a great statue whose sculptor never finished the face. Look at its feet.
Dictator	Castle Ravenloft, at the throne in the audience hall.	A seat made for one, in a hall made for the many who were meant to kneel before it.
Torturer	Vallaki, the burgomaster's mansion: a locked room full of dolls.	Behind a town's bright banners stands a house where something has gone wrong, and in it a room crowded with small, still faces. Every one of them is hers.
Warrior	Castle Ravenloft, deepest of all: in Strahd's own tomb.	It lies in the room where he sleeps the day away, beneath everything, guarded by the oldest dark in the valley.
Transmuter	Castle Ravenloft, at the top of its highest tower, among the stone guardians.	Climb his highest tower until your knees shake, and mind the carvings on the parapet. Not all of them are carvings.
Diviner	Madam Eva's tent at Tser Pool. She kept it for us.	You need not walk far. It has been under my own canvas all along, waiting for the hands the cards would send.
Enchanter	Berez, the drowned village: at the stone monument to a girl named Marina.	In a village the river swallowed, the mud remembers a girl he loved once, and keeps her in stone. Ask the hag who rules the reeds.
Abjurer	Argynvostholt, at the top of its dark beacon tower.	The dragon's house has a lamp at its crown that nobody lights any more. Climb to where the light should be.
Elementalist	The Amber Temple, past the amber guardians at its doors.	Far up the mountain road a door is cut into the rock, and two great figures the colour of old resin stand on either side of it. It waits just past them.
Evoker	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the crypt of a minor wizard; his wand is the key.	A small magician sleeps among the castle's grand dead, remembered by nothing but his name on a stone. What he carried in his hand unlocks what he guards.
Illusionist	Vallaki: in the locked carnival wagon of the showman staying at the Blue Water Inn.	A ringmaster has rolled into the walled town with a painted wagon he lets nobody near. Ask yourself what a showman keeps locked up that he never shows.
Necromancer	Castle Ravenloft, in the room where a woman's portrait hangs above the fireplace.	In his house a lady made of paint and varnish keeps her place above the hearth. She has watched it burn for centuries. Look where she looks.
Conjurer	Berez: in the hut of the witch Baba Lysaga.	Where the river ate a village whole, an old woman keeps house on the wreck, singing to the child she raised long ago. Take it from her kitchen.
Wizard	The old wizard's tower on Lake Baratok; his name opens it.	A tower stands in a cold mountain lake, and the mage who built it is long dead. Its door still answers to him, and to the one who served him. Find out who they were.
Swashbuckler	Castle Ravenloft: a warrior's tomb watched by gargoyles.	Somewhere in his house a famous killer is laid out on a stone slab, with winged stone guardians crouched at his head and his feet. He won't miss it.
Philanthropist	The Abbey of St. Markovia above Krezk, in its old wards.	Above the walled village stands a holy house that has become a kennel for madness. Look in the rooms where the young were once kept.
Trader	The Wizard of Wines winery, in the press house among the vines.	Follow the vines to the house that pressed the valley's last good wine. A bargain was struck there that nobody has paid.
Merchant	The Wizard of Wines: in an emptied cask in the winery's cellars.	Somewhere a barrel that held the best vintage in the valley stands as dry as a skull. Knock on it.
Guild Member	Castle Ravenloft: a dark cellar of bottles that is also somebody's tomb.	Down where his wine sleeps in racks, one rack holds no wine. A tradesman was walled in among the bottles, and it is with him.
Beggar	The Vistani camp outside Vallaki, with the grieving dusk elf.	Among the wagons outside the walled town sits an elf with dusk-dark skin who mourns a sister. He keeps it, and he will trade it for a road into the mountains.
Thief	The churchyard in the village of Barovia, among the graves.	Go back the way you came, to the village, and dig where the mourners stand. It sleeps under somebody else's name.
Tax Collector	The Vistani camp outside Vallaki, in their chief's locked chest; his missing daughter is the key.	It rides in a wagon of my cousins by the lake town, in a chest whose owner has lost a daughter. Bring the girl home, and the lid will open for you.
Miser	Castle Ravenloft: hidden behind a hearth, deep inside the keep.	Find the hearth in his keep that is always burning, and ask why a dead man needs a fire. Behind it is something he keeps and never spends.
Rogue	Castle Ravenloft, among the ravens' nests under its roofs.	Follow the birds that will not leave his roofs. Where they sleep, a clever hand tucked something bright among the twigs.
Monk	The Abbey of St. Markovia above Krezk, behind its sunburst.	A holy woman's house stands above the walled village, and its brightest symbol hides a hollow. Look behind the light.
Missionary	The abbey garden above Krezk: inside the scarecrow.	Where frost lies on the beds of a walled garden, a man of straw stands sentry with a stitched mouth. He holds it closer than any gardener would.
Healer	Krezk: in the blessed pool beside the shrine of the White Sun.	Beyond the last gate in the valley, where the walls keep out everything but snow, there is water that remembers the sun. Wade in.
Shepherd	Castle Ravenloft's catacombs, in the tomb of his mother, Queen Ravenovia.	Go to the woman who bore him. She sleeps beneath his house, and she has kept this for her son's enemies.
Druid	Yester Hill, at the foot of the evil tree the druids tend.	West of the vines the old dead are heaped into a hill, and from them grows one tree that drinks wrongly. Those who go there in green worship it. Go anyway.
Anarchist	Castle Ravenloft's dungeon, in a hall built of bones.	Somewhere in his pits, his old enemies were made into furniture. Sit at their table, and mind the lamp.
Charlatan	The old windmill on the Vallaki road that the villagers call the Bonegrinder.	A windmill leans on a crag above the road with its sails stopped. Something in it bakes, and something in it cries.
Bishop	The Amber Temple, in a treasure heap beyond its amber doors.	In the mountain's golden halls, behind a door that glows like honey held to a candle, the gifts of forgotten gods lie heaped up. It is among them.
Traitor	Vallaki: locked away in Lady Wachter's house, beside a set of old bones.	Behind the walled town's finest door, a widow raises a glass to the castle every night. Her strongbox holds it, and an old enemy's bones keep it company.
Priest	Castle Ravenloft, in the ruined chapel.	In his house there is a room built for kneeling, and nobody has knelt there in centuries. Look under the dust of its last prayer.

The destined ally

Card	Ally	Where	Her verse
Artifact	Rictavio	Vallaki, lodging at the Blue Water Inn as the showman Rictavio	A ringmaster with a menagerie of one has come to the walled town, laughing too loudly. Under the laugh is a hunter who has buried everyone he ever loved. Earn his trust.
Beast	Emil Toranescu	The werewolf den in the hills, a prisoner of his own pack	In the den in the hills, one wolf has started to look at his pack the way you look at the castle. When they turn on him, be there.
Broken One	Mordenkainen	A hut on Mount Baratok, above Van Richten's lake	Up the mountain lives a mage who has forgotten who he is. What he has not forgotten is how to bring down a sky. Help him find himself.
Darklord		Nowhere	No hand reaches for yours. The cards set no friend at your side: you will face him with only what you carry.
Donjon	Victor Vallakovich	Vallaki, the burgomaster's mansion, shut in the attic	In the walled town's grandest house, a clever young man has made his attic into a cell and a workshop. Free his mind from that house, and he will lend it to you.
Executioner	Ismark Kolyanovich	The village of Barovia, or already at your side	You have already shaken his hand. A village measured him against his father and found him short. The cards measure differently.
Ghost	Sir Godfrey Gwilym	Argynvostholt, among the revenant knights	The dragon's house is full of dead knights who have forgotten their oath. One of them still remembers, a little. Find him, and make him remember the rest.
Horseman	Kolyan Indirovich	His grave in the churchyard of the village of Barovia; he must first be given back his life	A man of standing lies cold, and a daughter who was never his by blood still keeps his memory. Give breath back to that body and he will stand with you.
Innocent	Parriwimple	Bildrath's Mercantile in the village of Barovia	A gentle giant of a boy sweeps a shop floor for an uncle who doesn't deserve him. He is stronger than anyone has ever told him.
Marionette	Pidlwick II	Somewhere in the towers of Castle Ravenloft	Something clockwork walks the castle's stairs on its own: a jester with a wound-down smile. It knows every passage in that house, and it is lonely.
Mists	Ezmerelda d'Avenir	Wandering; lately seen near the Abbey of St. Markovia above Krezk	A hunter of my blood left the wagons to chase what chases us, and the man who taught her. Catch her if you can; lately she has been seen on the road up to the abbey above the walled village.
Raven	Davian Martikov	The Wizard of Wines winery	Among the vines lives an old man whose family wears feathers by night. He is tired, and proud, and he would like very much to be asked.
Seer	Kasimir Velikov	The Vistani camp outside Vallaki	Beside the walled town, among my cousins' wagons, sits an elf who lost his sister and won't stop trying to buy her back. Walk his road with him a little way, and he will walk yours.
Tempter	Arabelle	Somewhere on Lake Zarovich, in danger	One of our little ones has wandered where she shouldn't, out onto the big water by the walled town. Someone has her who should not. Go quickly.

Where Strahd waits

Card	Room	Her verse
Artifact	Strahd will be waiting in the castle's chapel.	He waits in the room where his family prayed, among the broken pews, under a window that has not let in morning for centuries.
Beast	Strahd will be waiting on his throne in the audience hall.	He receives you the way a lord receives petitioners: seated high in his great hall, with all the time in the world.
Broken One	Strahd will be waiting at his brother Sergei's tomb.	He goes down to stand over his brother's coffin, over the man he could never be. He goes there often.
Darklord	Strahd will be waiting in his own tomb, at the bottom of the castle.	He will be in the room where his own coffin lies, deep below, where the night is oldest and he is strongest.
Donjon	Strahd will be waiting in the hall of bones in the castle's dungeon.	Under the castle, past the cells, there is a room furnished with the dead. He likes to entertain there.
Executioner	Strahd will be waiting on the castle's high balcony overlooking the valley.	He stands at the castle's lookout, high over the valley, admiring his property. He will turn around when you arrive.
Ghost	Strahd will be waiting at his father King Barov's tomb.	He has gone down to visit the king who made him. Father and son, both of them stone now.
Horseman	Strahd will be waiting in the castle's catacombs.	Among the endless crypts below, where his house keeps its dead in rows, he walks between the names.
Innocent	Strahd will be waiting at his brother Sergei's tomb.	He keeps company with the brother he murdered for a woman. He talks to him, sometimes. The brother never answers.
Marionette	Strahd will be waiting near the beating heart at the top of the castle.	Climb until you can hear the castle's pulse, a great glass heart that bleeds for him. He will be standing beside it.
Mists	The cards could not see where Strahd will wait. Anywhere in the castle.	The mist lies over this card; it will not show me. He will be wherever he chooses, and he will choose well.
Raven	Strahd will be waiting at his mother Queen Ravenovia's tomb.	He keeps vigil by the queen who bore him, in the cold beneath his house.
Seer	Strahd will be waiting in his study.	He will be among his books, by a fire that warms nothing, reading old letters he should have burned.
Tempter	Strahd will be waiting above his treasure vault.	Find the painting of the woman he lost. Behind her lies his hoard, and he will be sitting on it like a dragon, counting what it never bought him.

The cards

Card	Deck	Meaning
Artifact	high	A thing of power, and the hold it takes on whoever holds it.
Beast	high	The animal inside the person: hunger, rage, the thing that bites.
Broken One	high	Defeat and despair, and the long, slow work of being mended.
Darklord	high	One ruler of terrible power, alone at the top of everything he owns.
Donjon	high	The cell, of stone or of the mind, and whoever is shut inside it.
Executioner	high	Judgment and its sentence; death delivered as a duty.
Ghost	high	The past that will not rest; something dead that still wants.
Horseman	high	Death itself, riding unhurried. It arrives for everyone, eventually.
Innocent	high	The gentle one who has not yet learned what the world does to gentleness.
Marionette	high	A thing worked by strings: the puppet, the spy, the servant someone made.
Mists	high	The unknown. What lies past the edge of the cards' sight.
Raven	high	Knowledge from a hidden source; help that arrives on an unexpected wing.
Seer	high	Insight and inspiration; the one who sees through to what is true.
Tempter	high	The offer too sweet to refuse and too costly to accept.
Avenger	common	Swords, one. Justice that has started to enjoy itself: a debt paid back with interest.
Paladin	common	Swords, two. A champion of the light who keeps faith even when faith stops keeping him.
Soldier	common	Swords, three. The courage of the ranks: doing what you are told, and paying for it.
Mercenary	common	Swords, four. A blade for hire, loyal for exactly as long as the coin lasts.
Myrmidon	common	Swords, five. A warrior sworn to a cause so large it hides everything else from view.
Berserker	common	Swords, six. Fury that has forgotten its reasons; strength that cannot stop.
Hooded One	common	Swords, seven. The covered face: secrets, suspicion, the stranger nobody looks at twice.
Dictator	common	Swords, eight. Rule by fear; a throne that rests on the people kneeling under it.
Torturer	common	Swords, nine. Cruelty practised as a craft, suffering made to last.
Warrior	common	The master of Swords. The perfect fighter: strength, and no questions asked of it.
Transmuter	common	Stars, one. Change for its own sake; one thing made into another, for better or worse.
Diviner	common	Stars, two. The seer: knowledge of what has not happened yet, and the weight of carrying it.
Enchanter	common	Stars, three. Charm and compulsion; a will bent so gently it never feels the bending.
Abjurer	common	Stars, four. The ward and the wall, which keep danger out and also keep things in.
Elementalist	common	Stars, five. Fire, stone, water and storm, answering to a voice that may not deserve them.
Evoker	common	Stars, six. Power called up to strike; the scholar made into a weapon.
Illusionist	common	Stars, seven. Nothing is what it seems: the mask, the trick, the kind lie.
Necromancer	common	Stars, eight. Mastery over death, which is never quite mastery, and always has a price.
Conjurer	common	Stars, nine. What is called up from elsewhere, and what comes through behind it uninvited.
Wizard	common	The master of Stars. Learning and long study, and the pride that tends to walk beside them.
Swashbuckler	common	Coins, one. Dash and daring; the robber who bows to the purse he cuts.
Philanthropist	common	Coins, two. Charity, true or performed; the giver, and what the gift buys.
Trader	common	Coins, three. The fair exchange and the crooked one; every bargain hides a second price.
Merchant	common	Coins, four. The shop and the scale; the patient pursuit of profit.
Guild Member	common	Coins, five. Belonging bought with dues: the comfort of a fellowship, and its bars.
Beggar	common	Coins, six. Want and need; the open hand, and the pride it costs to hold it out.
Thief	common	Coins, seven. What is taken in the dark, and what was never truly anyone's.
Tax Collector	common	Coins, eight. The share that power claims; corruption that keeps neat accounts.
Miser	common	Coins, nine. Hoarding past all use; wealth that has come to own its owner.
Rogue	common	The master of Coins. Cunning and ambition; the one who always knows the way out.
Monk	common	Glyphs, one. Discipline and stillness; the self held quiet like water in a cup.
Missionary	common	Glyphs, two. Faith carried into strange country, persuading or presuming.
Healer	common	Glyphs, three. The hand that binds wounds, of the body and of the spirit.
Shepherd	common	Glyphs, four. The keeper of a flock; protection that also leads.
Druid	common	Glyphs, five. Root and season, the old order of the wild: merciless, and fair.
Anarchist	common	Glyphs, six. Rules broken on principle; disorder held as a creed.
Charlatan	common	Glyphs, seven. Holy robes worn for profit; the liar at the altar.
Bishop	common	Glyphs, eight. Doctrine and rank; faith grown into an institution.
Traitor	common	Glyphs, nine. Betrayal by the trusted; the knife that comes from beside you.
Priest	common	The master of Glyphs. Devotion and spiritual leadership; the bridge between the mortal and the divine.