Location from Curse of Strahd by Tracy & Laura Hickman, Chris Perkins / Wizards of the Coast
A walled town where the burgomaster mandates happiness through compulsory festivals — a powder keg of political intrigue, secret cults, and forced smiles.
Vallaki is Barovia's largest settlement and its most politically volatile. Surrounded by wooden palisades and guarded gates, it maintains the illusion of safety — an illusion that Baron Vallakovich reinforces with mandatory weekly festivals celebrating joy, hope, and sunshine, none of which exist naturally in Barovia. Beneath the forced cheerfulness, Vallaki seethes. Lady Wachter runs a secret cult devoted to Strahd from her parlor. Izek Strazni enforces the baron's edicts with a demonic arm and a casual cruelty. The Keepers of the Feather run intelligence operations from the Blue Water Inn. Van Richten hides behind his Rictavio disguise. The coffin maker harbors vampire spawn in his attic. The bones of St. Andral have been stolen from the church. Vallaki is a town of secrets, and every secret is a fuse. The question is not whether it will explode, but which spark reaches the powder first.
Also known as: Vallaki, Town of Vallaki, the walled town