Keepers of the Feather

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Keepers of the Feather

A secret order founded by wereravens with the stated mission of gathering intelligence, finding allies, and accumulating whatever tools it takes to one day defeat Strahd and free Barovia from his curse. They have been at this for some time. The progress is ongoing.

Origins and Membership

The order was founded by wereravens. Their lycanthropy — the ability to transform into ravens — is treated as a gift rather than a curse, bestowed by a wind spirit named Rebog and traditionally obtained through months of ritual and meditative transformation. Not everyone associated with the Keepers is a weraraven; the order has broader membership. But its founding lineage is, and its symbol is the feather.

The Blue Water Inn in Vallaki operates as a Keepers safehouse. The innkeepers Danica and Irwin are its local leaders. Their family — the Martikovs — are wereravens; Irwin's father Davian Martikov owns the Wizard of Wines Winery to the north.

Methods

The Keepers use their raven forms for intelligence gathering. They maintain a rookery above the Blue Water Inn's stables, housing hundreds of ravens. The inn's attic contains straw nests used by the family when in raven form, a locked iron strongbox, and two trapdoors — one into the master bedroom, one into the boys' room. A hidden door leads from the master bedroom to the loft above the stables.

Their intelligence operations have been active in Vallaki for some time. They vetted the party while they slept on their first night at the inn, which led to the confrontation of Session 9.

Known Assets

Goals

First Revealed

Session 9; Danica revealed herself as a weraraven and named the faction after being confronted by the party following a midnight intelligence operation gone sideways