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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7528076" data-attributes="member: 37579">It bugged the eff out of me initially.Basically, in the setting, Strahd expelled a tribe of invaders (the Tergs) from Barovia, spending his entire youth fighting to free his homeland. He succeeds and sees his brothers fiancée, falls in love, and strikes a pact with ambiguous “Death”. He wasn’t evil until then, but had a choice and fell to darkness out of possessive toxic “lovel. In CoS, Strahd waged wars of conquest and took over the land that became Barovia, and built Castle Ravenloft himself. He was already evil, having tortured and killed an elite order of paladin knights and then silver dragon patron. Then made a deal with the vestiges of dead gods for power. Only after that he met Tatyana. There’s no tragedy in that story. No fall from grace. As far as the Mists go, there are a number of different domains/ kingdoms, with the Mists surrounding the entire continent, not just Barovia. <a href="http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/PortraitHall/JesterMaps/Jester_maps_gallery.html" target="_blank">http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/PortraitHall/JesterMaps/Jester_maps_gallery.html</a>But, as you say, lots of people like the original adventure and not the setting. And lots of people dug this adaptation. So long as someone is happy, it’s a positive thing and good for the game. And the people who are fans of the original adventure are likely much, much more common and numerous than fans of the setting.</blockquote>

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