Barovia: A History of Conquest & Colonization
Written By Lars Moldovar, et al.
Found in the Kolyanovich private library, this tome offers a dry and somewhat surprisingly critical record of the history of Barovia and its colonization by Strahd von Zarovich. Reading through the work offers the following revelations:
The Religions of Ancient Barovia
The Ancient Gods of Barovia
Strahd’s Conquest of the Greater Barovian Valley
Winning over the Barovian Heart
Strahd and the Vistani
The Final “Liberation” of Barovia from the Warlords of Olde
The Era of Strahd the King
The Economics of a Post-War Barovia
In Conclusion…
The final chapter offers a number of daring critiques of Strahd's politics and economic policies and makes a reference to an engagement between Strahd's far more popular brother, Sergei von Zarowich, and a Barovian woman, Lady Tatyana. The author speculates on the wedding commencing within the year of this tome’s publication and of it being a “typical consumerist’s engorgement on the attentions and capital of the oppressed Barovian classes.”
Found in the Kolyanovich private library, this tome offers a dry and somewhat surprisingly critical record of the history of Barovia and its colonization by Strahd von Zarovich. Reading through the work offers the following revelations:
The Religions of Ancient Barovia
The Ancient Gods of Barovia
The ancient people of Barovia followed a long lost religion centered around four divine domains. Two of the domains belong to named gods: Morninglory of the Morninglord, and the eclipse of the moon into darkness, named Mother Night. The other two domains are only remembered by their iconography: a forest of frozen trees tended by ravens, an enormous spire at the center of a vast and flat plane.
Strahd’s Conquest of the Greater Barovian Valley
Winning over the Barovian Heart
Strahd's conquest was initially quite unpopular. Strahd’s family was denied their thones in a far away land and his campaign in Barovia was largely seen as a big fish being kicked out of the big pond only to land in the small one. Strahd’s methods were also seen as problematic as, “[his] proclivities and penchants for the occult and profane were only overshadowed by the visceral and bloodthirsty means by which he baited and defeated his enemies.”
Strahd and the Vistani
Strahd's was once saved by a band of Vistani. This has made a lot of people very angry and has widely been regarded as a bad move.
The Final “Liberation” of Barovia from the Warlords of Olde
Strahd completed his conquest of the Barovian Valley region and its people by the end of 347 BR (Barovian-Reckoning).
The Era of Strahd the King
The Economics of a Post-War Barovia
Strahd the Conqueror began the construction of the Castle Ravenloft in the year 350 BR and named the structure for his mother, the late Queen Ravenovia von Zarovich. Her majesty did not live to see the structure complete.