[SPOILERS] Season 4 Overview of Curse of Strahd from Dragon+

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From Dragon+
http://www.dragonmag.com/5.0/#!/article/106799/101258316




The new season of the D&D Adventures League, which ties into the Curse of Straw storyline, starts in March 2016. In part one of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, strange things are afoot in the Moonsea region. The factions have called together all those willing and able to investigate on occurrences in the area surrounding Phlan. Dark whispers and unseen terrors lurk in the misty shadows that exist between this world and someplace much more sinister. Can players unveil the horrors before it is too late?


According to Chris Lindsay, D&D Product Marketing Specialist and Guildmaster, the new season concerns a power that his been awakened from within The Amber Temple (see Chapter 14 of Curse of Strahd).


"Esmae Amarantha, Strahd's most powerful witch, has exercises a new found power to expand her master's domain to encompass lands outside of Barovia," he tells Dragon+. "Being totally dedicated to the vampire, she has allowed Strahd to direct her efforts, which have found a foothold in the Forgotten Realms, more specifically in a small region of the Moonsea. The Adventures League season for Curse of Strahd will involve our heroes seeking the death of this particular witch in order to free the Moonsea from the vampire's reach."


At the conclusion of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the bonds connecting the two worlds begin to fade and characters can choose to return to the Moonsea Region or remain in Barovia to play through Curse of Strahd.

 

[Pauper]

At the conclusion of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts, the bonds connecting the two worlds begin to fade and characters can choose to return to the Moonsea Region or remain in Barovia to play through Curse of Strahd.

So it's an actual campaign-wide event rather than tied to a specific module? That should ease a lot of concerns about characters getting inadvertently trapped in Ravenloft.

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Pauper

 

[Z. H. Darkstar]

So it's an actual campaign-wide event rather than tied to a specific module? That should ease a lot of concerns about characters getting inadvertently trapped in Ravenloft.

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Pauper

And since we know which module is the end of MF&AH, we know where the exit is. I'm going to safely assume that the end of the T2 set of modules holds the other exit.

 

[Tyranthraxus]

What I find interesting is that its the Dark Powers who decide how much land/people/structures a Dark Lord get.

This Witch and her 'new found power'... that power must be a gift of the Dark Powers and that never ever comes without a price. Wouldnt surprise me if the Witch is probably not even in league with Strahd anymore or these new Lands are likely to disappear as soon as acquired.