Strahd’s Letter to Elisabeth

Malron’s Account

A letter in a heavy wooden chest with clawed iron feet in Durst Manor, where Aera put the amber shard. Strahd wrote it to Elisabeth Durst, his “most pathetic servant”, scorning the souls she had bled for him on her hidden altar⁠4.

The letter

As we found it in the chest:

My most pathetic servant,

I am not a messiah sent to you by the Dark Powers of this land. I have not come to lead you on a path to immortality. However many souls you have bled on your hidden altar, however many visitors you have tortured in your dungeon, know that you are not the one who brought me to this beautiful land. You are but a worm writhing in my earth.

You say that you are cursed, your fortune spent. Your husband took solace in the bosom of another woman, sired a bastard son, and drove you to abandon love for madness. Cursed by darkness? Of that I have no doubt. Save you from your wretchedness? I think not. I much prefer you as you are.

Your dread lord and master,

Strahd von Zarovich