Soon after retrieving a sword hilt from the guardian accoring to the Reading of Mme. Eva, the party heads back to the town of Krezk where Sierra Del Panadero and Narmo are farming. Sierra was talking to an old lady from the village to see what else could be done to help the village. The old lady Eufrazie Germainovic was very helpful and told her to go get the wine trade back on track. She told us to go talk to Wyann. Wyann Barryll!!! Pulling probably the biggest XD face we've seen in Barovia.
Sierra also noticed a fresh grave near in the garden of the burgomaster Dimitri Kreskov's house. She talked to his wife, Anna Krezkov while the party were invited for lunch at the burgomaster. Anna told her that their daughter Ilya Krezkov was buried a couple days ago. She died from a horrible disease called fuckaroundandfindoutitis or something idk Sierra is not a medic. Wait, Sieraa IS in fact a medic. This led to a knock on the door. It was the Pope.
To be more precise, it was The Abbot. He offers the Krezkovs a chance to resurrect their child, which they gleefully take. It also notably cures all her disease and did not need any components at all. Is he God-blessed or is something sinister going on? Kokmadon believes the former, the rest of the party thinks something fishy is at play.
The party finishes the day and goes nighty night. Everyone dreams, with notably Kokmadon seeing the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind again, and watching the ruby in the cenre of the symbol turn into a beating heart.
Ireena Kolyana hears a voice calling her to the pool in the village of Krezk. So the morning comes and we go to the pool. It has a gazebo, a wooden statue of a man, and a shrine of the Sun at the shore of the pool.
The statue communicates to Kokmadon, revealing that he is Sergei Von Zarovich, Strahd Von Zarovich's long-dead brother. He calls Ireena Kolyana by another name, which is Tatyana Kolyana! We are taken aback, since he says Ireena is an x-number reincarnation of Tatyana. For some reason Strahd is resurrecting her and others over and over. Sergei gives us the chance to release Ireena from this death loop, and she agrees. Right before this, though, we dip the sword hilt in the pool and it creates the LEGENDARY Sun Sword, a blade of pure sunlight and the blessing of the Morninglord! Then it's Ireena's turn. She dips into the pool and her body remains as a soulless husk (semi zombie).
we drop her body off at Dimitri Kreskov. We then prepare to head out for the Wizard of Wines winery, taking a cart along with us. There, we encounter the winery occupied by druids galore and a bunch of Blights. We see an old man in the treeline. He introduces himself as Damien Martikov, father of Urwin Martikov, the barman in Vallaki.
We infiltrated into the winery through the workshop and head into the cellar, where we see six figures in the misty dungeon, one with antlers. Preparing for combat...