Marika
Children as psychic conduits — foreshadowing.
Children as psychic conduits — foreshadowing.
She is Kolyan Indirovich’s daughter. At his funeral she stood beside Ismark and did not weep. She had wept the night before. She agreed to leave with the party the same morning Ismark asked them. She packed a small bag. She did not look back at the house. She has Sister Feena’s face — the same…
Burgomaster of Old Barovia. On the morning after the funeral he asked the party what he could not ask anyone else in the village: take her east, to Zaleskiy Gorod, before what has been watching decides to stop watching. He will not go with them. He cannot. There is a house to hold together, a…
Miklós Farkas — a hunter from the outer holdings east of Zaleskiy Gorod, half a day out from the city, on a small goat-farm off the main road at the split ash. Late thirties. Bulghar. Lean from a lifetime spent walking more miles than riding them. Practical, observant, and until nine days ago known to…