The Enchantress

Kerning had known comfort from birth: silks, tutors, and halls where magic was a privilege, not a calling.

Yet the weight of expectation grew heavier than any crown, and so she cast it aside.

She left her family’s walls behind for the open road, chasing a truth that no library could contain.

Brenth, her steadfast guardian, followed as duty demanded.

Together they wandered far, her hunger for knowledge drawing them ever deeper into the mysteries of the world — until the day she met Rand, and together they stepped, unknowing, across the unseen border of Barovia.

There she learned what true darkness was.

The mists did not simply conceal. They corrupted.

Spells twisted, light vanished, and every spark of wonder became something to be feared.

Yet she endured.

Where others sought deliverance, Kerning sought understanding.

The land whispered to her with the voice of forbidden wisdom, and she listened.

She bartered away pieces of herself , for every shard of knowledge demanded a price, in exchange for the power to survive, to protect, to know.

When the final dawn came and Strahd was undone, Kerning stood amidst the ruins not as the girl who had fled her home, but as a survivor tempered by the shadow she once sought to master.

Beside Rand, she chose not to flee the cursed land, but to rebuild it — to weave something new from the remnants of an old nightmare.

Shared Story

These are all characters from our Curse of Strahd campaign:

• Brenth, the Dwarf Paladin;
• Kerning, the Elf Mage;
• Emlon, the Elf Priest;
• Rand, the Vampire Elf Warlock;
• Autari, the Halfling Rogue.

Each ventured into the land of Barovia for their own reasons, yet none could escape its pull alone.

Bound by chance and broken by fate, they fought not only Strahd’s darkness, but the shadows within themselves.

Epilogue

The final image in the concept art section portrays their respective epilogues : the ending of their journey.