I, Strahd

Dr. Rudolph Van Richten has fought vampires since one of them killed his son. He holds that knowledge is the surest weapon against such creatures, and he believes he has finally located its richest source: Strahd, the most powerful vampire of all.

For close to four centuries, Strahd Von Zarovich has governed Barovia with harsh control. Early on he was a human lord, strict but fair, who won power through war and punished betrayal with death. His days were filled with soldiers, assassins, taxes, and decrees, and under that constant burden he was growing old.

Tatyana changed everything. Her arrival stirred a heart that had long been dead, and she reawakened in him a hope for the youth and joy he had carelessly thrown away, along with a desire that lifted his spirit so high that his later fall was all the more dramatic.

To his people he is now the Devil, a necromancer whose reputation is dark. Few among the living realize he is a vampire lord, and Van Richten is one of the few who do.