Vistani

Does she at all look like

a Vistani? Like a...

Oh, no, no, no.

Like, you notice the stitches.

It can be heard from the other side.

And as you move to enter, You hear the sound of chalk breaking, followed by a muffled curse immediately after.

In Vistani.

Oh! And, uh...

So we get some info on playing different factions in Ravenloft.

There's Keepers of the Feather, info on how to play characters who are members of Keepers of the Feather, and then also a fairly chunky section on playing Vistani, which changes some of the approach from Curse of Strahd.

So this is definitely post, like, Curse of Strahd revamped.

And so all of that, you know, all the discussion around that was happening at the time.

They definitely present Vistani not as, these are Strahd's G-word minions, right? They are presented as a group of people who, because of their nature, can travel freely through the mists where most others cannot.

Um, and there's even, uh, that's part of why the mist Walker, uh, gift is in that section in the beginning.

So if you wanted to play a Bastani, you could portray it by having that gift where you can move through the mists and guide people through it.

So, have fun with it.

I do know her only by name

you have heard tales of Esmeralda like uh You don't really know from which Vistani encampment she's from, but you do know that she's a Vistani that doesn't mingle with her folk.

She basically travels around beyond the mists, hunting monsters here and there.

But you did hear tales about her.

Yep.

Um, and then we get the Vistani exodus, so they pack up their wagons and leave.

Uh, the Barovians are happy to see them go.

You know what's crazy? Is that we have, we have information on what Ismark is up to at the end of Curse of Strahd when Strahd is killed.

No hint at it.

Yeah.

And just that when Strahd reforms, the Vistani come back.

It's like, wait, what is she supposed to be doing with all of this? What, does, what does she know?

It is

... you're in this very claustrophobic place and people can't leave unless, no one can leave unless you're a certain, a lineage, the Vistani.

Yeah.

And so of course you're gonna rely on these little bits of hope to, to numb the pain for a little bit.

Campfires flickered in the distance, the music drifting through the trees.

The Vistani welcomed the travellers with wary smiles and knowing eyes.

At the heart of the camp sat Madame Eva, ancient and ageless, her gaze piercing through time.

She beckoned Stumpy forward.

We left off on echoes of elsewhere.

We left the Vistani camp, where we had our fortunes read, doom and gloom, very predictably.

We took a shortcut through the woods, which was... worked out okay because we met our new friend uxis um the very tall man with um seemingly very good intentions um we've learned that he has some sort of connection to new eden perhaps he saw us briefly when we were in that parking lot and we and i had a trash can thrown at me We met him, buried, actually burned the ghouls.

And despite getting attacked on our first shortcut, we decided, I mean, everyone else decided that we were going to do a second shortcut.

They are watching as you approach motionless to your right.

You can see the cliff over the side and a very, very far drop below 7, 8, 900 feet below is where the river continues.

Had you gone north from the Vistani camp, you would have been at the bottom of that cliff, not the top.

So I think once we get into range, Father Gregor will remove from his back a 10-foot pole from his back and we'll get very far away from these gargoyles and poke at them a little bit.