![[LadyFionaWachterPathfinder-v1.webp]] # Lady Fiona Wachter _Human Noble, Cult Leader | [[Cult of Asmodeus]] | [[Vallaki]]_ ## Summary A [[Vallaki]] noblewoman and rival of Baron [[Vargas Vallakovich|Vargas Vallakovich]], and the secret leader of a [[Cult of Asmodeus]] hidden behind a book club. She tried to recruit the party into a scheme against the Baron. When [[Strahd von Zarovich]]'s enforcer [[Izek Strazni]] died and the Baron's grip failed, she seized Vallaki and installed herself as Baroness. The party killed her when they arrived to stop her from executing the old Baron. %% ## Now _Concluded._ Killed in her own estate when a disguised Victor, out of patience, fireballed her — moments after learning she was in a room with Strahd's killers. ## Appearance A composed, well-dressed noblewoman who hosts lunches and runs a book club, all impeccable manners over a cult's ambition. ## Personality Poised, contemptuous of the Baron, and openly conspiratorial with anyone she thinks she can use. She reveals more than she should — she let slip to the party at their first lunch that her book club worships Asmodeus. Ruthless enough to launch a coup and stage a public hanging, but she reframes it all as reluctant duty. Alarmed only once: on realizing the people in front of her had killed Strahd. ## Quote _"I only reluctantly launched a coup, and reluctantly allowed myself to be made Baroness."_ ## Connections **[[Vargas Vallakovich]]** — rival; the Baron she deposed and meant to hang. **Nikolai and Karl Wachter** — her two troublemaking sons. ## Background **The rival.** Lady Wachter opposed Baron [[Vargas Vallakovich]], whom she considered a fool. She invited the party to lunch, tried to recruit them into a scheme against him, and revealed her book club was in fact a [[Cult of Asmodeus]]. **The coup.** When [[Izek Strazni]] died and the Baron lost his grip on [[Vallaki]], Wachter's cult seized the town. She made herself Baroness and scheduled the old Baron's execution at sundown. **Death.** The party arrived to stop the hanging, bluffed past her new cultist guards, and told her Strahd was dead. She grew alarmed to be in a room with people who could kill Strahd — and died when a disguised Victor lost patience and fireballed her. Vallaki was liberated and, at the party's urging, turned to democracy. ## Stats **Base:** Fiona Wachter (Curse of Strahd) / Cult Fanatic-tier caster with cult backup. Her death came from a single impatient fireball rather than a drawn-out fight. %%