Known as Arabella in the CoS campaign book. 7 year old Vistani girl and 2nd most powerful fortune teller in the Vistani people. Despite her youth, Valeria has borne witness to brutality and gore from her second sight.
Visions
Valeria is plagued by vivid visions of the past, present, and future. Due to her living in Barovia, these visions are often bleak.
Because of her inexperience in dealing with her visions, Valeria's sight shows up most prevalently in her dreams. Almost every night, she has dreams and nightmares that she can't quite interpret.
Valeria also has powerful instinctual visions, usually triggered by the senses. When she touches another person, she may receive a vision of an incredibly emotional moment for them (a past trauma, or even their fast coming death for instance). Smelling a distinct odor or perfume may also trigger a vision associated the scent. No matter what, Valeria's visions are usually sudden and completely uncontrollable.
Her visions, though clear in appearance, lack context. Unless there are direct markers or dialogue in a vision, Valeria can't tell whether a vision is past, present, or future.
Tarroka
Because her visions are so difficult to understand, Valeria religiously carries around a deck of Tarroka cards, which she uses to interpret them. Her readings are never as telling as Madam Eva's, but they can certainly help sort out what's what.
If you have Valeria do a Tarroka reading for your party, her results are more like blurry photographs with no interpretation. For instance, if you have the players ask her where an artifact is and it's in the giant statue at the Amber Temple guarded by the Arcanaloth, Valeria would say something like this: "There's a man. He's... wearing a cloak with a big hood. But... I can't see his face. It's like the darkness is alive and it's covering his face completely. That's it, that's all I see."
Relation to Strahd
Valeria is a living descendent of Strahd's family line. For the sake of simplicity, Valeria's mother carried the Zarovich blood, but died in childbirth. Luvash and Arrigal are therefore not of the same blood.
From her relation, Valeria technically has the ability to replace Strahd as Dark Lady of Barovia. She can supplant him in the eyes of the Dark Powers and take up leadership, which is a pretty extreme story element. Now, players won't know this right away of course. Even Valeria is ignorant to her lineage. However, the Amber Temple holds more answers than the players could ever fathom. Establishing Valeria as a memorable character will help this revelation later in the campaign.
Roleplay/Personality
Valeria is extremely mature for her age due to her being a gifted seer. As such, she's familiar with death, tragedy, and most emotional experiences in human life. This forced understanding made Valeria grow up fast.
Intelligent. Valeria grasps concepts very quickly and positively hates it when people treat her like she's stupid. Because of her quick uptake, she often gets frustrated with adults that talk down to her. Sometimes, when people are continuously condescending to Valeria, she lashes out verbally. For a little kid that weighs about eighty pounds soaking wet, her words can cut deep when she wants them to.
Extremely sassy. She loves picking on other people, but in ways that don't actually destroy their feelings. Here are some little quotes that Valeria might use:
"Don't you worry. Strahd only goes after pretty people for his consorts."
A: "Wow! You're really brave!" Player: "Why.. thank you. That means a lot." A: "Oh, no. That wasn't a compliment." Player: "What?" A: "Sorry. What I meant to say is that you're definitely gonna die soon."
Before a player takes a bite of their food. "Go ahead. Eat it. I dare you." (Nothing is wrong with the food, she just wants to mess with them.)
Friendship
When Valeria makes a friend, she makes that friend for life. She sort of picks and chooses the people she likes the most and she'll stick up for those people fiercely. She won't tolerate anyone hurting her friends and is potentially a wicked ally to the party.
Like a good little Vistani, Valeria knows just about everyone in their camp and she gets along with them all just fine. However, there's no one that she really, truly connects with. She's far too mature for children of her own age and most adults borderline worship her for her seer abilities. So while Valeria is technically surrounded by family, she's also always a little lonely.
The only exception to this is Arrigal. Valeria thinks the world of her uncle and he is downright her best friend. Arrigal is the only person who actually treats her with respect and values her opinion. Luvash is Valeria's father and yes, she loves him. But she's really Arrigal's little girl.
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