https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/tags/commentary/Recent content in Commentary on Vaults of the ODDHugoen-gbTue, 21 Apr 2026 07:08:25 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/reading-the-count-notes-toward-an-interpretation-of-the-journals-of-strahd-von-zarovich/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:08:25 +0000https://www.vaultsoftheodd.com/reading-the-count-notes-toward-an-interpretation-of-the-journals-of-strahd-von-zarovich/<p>The Peculiar History of the Kingdom of Barovia</p> <p>What follows is not history in the sense that the preceding account is history. That account rested wherever possible on stone, on independent witnesses, on the logic of physical evidence that cannot be easily altered after the fact. This one rests almost entirely on Strahd von Zarovich's own writing, and on a method of reading that runs against the grain of what he intended to be found.</p>