Sarusanda Allester
Info
Race: Human
Class: Ulmist inquisitor
Background
Sarusanda is a member of the Ulmist Inquisition, an organization dedicated to rooting out evil throughout the multiverse. She discovered that the cultists in the Death House obtained something important: a fragment of the Rod of Seven Parts. Sarusanda believes the cultists don’t know much about the rod piece, but she suspects the cultists plan to use it to somehow attract Strahd’s attention.
The Death House cultists’ discovery roused the attention of another wicked group, the priests of Osybus. Unaffiliated with the cultists in Death House, the priests of Osybus are necromancers who steal souls to fuel their evil, life-prolonging magic. They wish to claim the rod piece for use in their necromantic rituals, and they’ve divined the characters’ arrival and know the characters will try to stop them.
Sarusanda heard about the priests’ activities, discovered the presence of the rod piece, and traveled to the village. She has vowed to stop the priests of Osybus’s activities in Death House and any other evil happening there.
Sarusanda needs to act quickly to stop the priests of Osybus and Strahd from acquiring the rod fragment. She doesn’t care if the party takes the artifact; as long as it stays out of her enemies’ clutches, she’ll consider her work done. To this end, she invites the characters to join her cause.
Shortly after she joined the Ulmist Inquisition, Sarusanda’s father—a man named Galias—joined the priests of Osybus. Sarusanda witnessed him commit a terrible act in the cult’s name, though she doesn’t give details, and the inquisitor admits she didn’t arrest her father. Sarusanda considers this her greatest failing.
Galias was fully inducted into the priests of Osybus, and Sarusanda heard that he would be among the cultists at Death House today. She is enraged that she hasn’t found Galias so she can confront him.