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you clicked the readmore so you get sad-wet-cat-in-the-rain Strahd

Tristain: one of the PC's love (?) interests, a young lord who finds himself in Strahd's company...

Instead of being a Barovian commoner, I'm focusing on ancient ideas of homeland/country, so my Tatyana is a foreigner to Barovia. And due to other decisions I've made concerning Sergei, the role of someone sun-themed falls to her instead, so she's a Cassandraesque sun priestess and prophetess. One could even call her cursed...

It was especially important to me that she have a little more interiority than what the module really allows, so my Tati has a... complicated relationship with Strahd, which I'll have to get into at a later date. She still takes her own life in the end, but by different means and for a different purpose.

And, most critically, her soul is not being reincarnated across Barovia. Her image is repeated over and over again, whether that be on dryads or in old books or ruined statues or in the face of some doomed young woman, but it's never really her. Strahd had her once, and never again.