Madame Eva

Madame Eva is the most enigmatic of the Vistani—a seer of immense power and unsettling mystery who holds court within the Mists of Barovia. She is ancient, cunning, and bound to secrets that predate even Count Strahd von Zarovich’s unlife. Among her people, she is a controversial figure: revered by some as a near-divine prophetess, reviled by others as a traitor who sold her gifts to a monster.

Madame Eva appears as an elderly Vistana woman, her body frail but her presence immense. Her eyes shimmer with an unnatural awareness, as if they peer through the world’s illusions and into the twisting strands of fate itself.

• She speaks slowly, each word deliberate, weighty, and laced with implication.
• She reads the future with the Tarokka deck, and her readings are never mere parlor tricks—they are real, profound, and inescapable.

Those who sit before her to receive a reading often emerge shaken—and not all of them survive what she foretells.

Madame Eva seems to understand the structure of the Domains of Dread in a way few mortals or immortals do. She does not seek power or glory, but balance. She rarely intervenes directly, preferring to nudge fate with riddles, clues, and cryptic choices.

• She is rumored to be part of the Vistani’s original bloodline, perhaps even older than Strahd himself.
• Some whisper that she is no longer entirely mortal, and that her soul may be entangled with the Mists themselves.

Her Tarokka readings can alter the course of adventurers’ lives, revealing the means to defeat Strahd—or seal one’s doom.

Among the Vistani, Madame Eva is both matriarch and myth. Some caravans celebrate her, others avoid speaking her name. Most agree on one thing: she is not to be crossed.

• Her tent near Tser Pool is a place of pilgrimage and terror, where the desperate seek answers and the doomed receive confirmation.
• Despite her role in Barovia’s fate, Madame Eva shows little emotion, only the calm detachment of someone who has watched the same tragedy unfold countless times.

Madame Eva is the ancient, inscrutable Vistani seer whose pact with Count Strahd made her the guardian of Barovia’s fate—part oracle, part manipulator, and wholly beyond mortal judgment.