#Caligo’s Vistani

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Mama Eva and her sons, Arrigal and Luvash🫶

I have changed the Vistani in my game to be half bird people. Mama Eva and her sons are chickens because they are protective and parental to their community.

Arrigal is a Silkie rooster and Luvash is balding🫶 (They usually have wing ears but these three don’t because they are part human but shh it’s a secret)

I know there are a lot of weird racist things they did with the Vistani in the OG game. I just want nothing to do with that in a game that I’m playing for fun with my friends. Also I thought it was weird that Vistani were like depicted inherently very magical and evil even though they are human?? I’m not going to make them all evil man cmon☠️stop this nonsense

Im working on making Vistani a playable race. In a one shot I did before the campaign one of my players was a Vistani and I adore them so so much🫶🫶🫶

In the lore I made up, the god of the mists Caligo (who is a big biblically accurate many-faced angel bird lookin thing) takes favor to the Vistani and blessed them with magic and protection. Over the centuries the Vistani grew to be more like their loving god, they even developed a whistle language to communicate through the dense fog they traversed.

Though Strahd still controls who gets to leave, the Vistani can choose to use the mist to go to other planes if they have a strong connection with Caligo.

The type of bird a Vistani is depends of their personality, although it’s common for a family to be similar to each other like Mama Eva and her sons.

If you were always on the go and have high blood pressure you might be a humming bird. If you were curious and mischievous you might be a parakeet. If you were protective and motherly you might be a chicken. You get it.

Vistani have only four fingers on each hand and a tail of feathers. They have humanoid legs and are almost completely covered in feathers except for the hands, feet, face, and belly. So they can cradle and warm the eggs. Yes they lay eggs. Yes it’s inspired by Falin from Dungeon Meshi, my Orcs are also inspired by that show🫶 go watch it if you haven’t

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Strahd’s wives redraw requested by one of my players 🫶 love the evil polycule

I’m still workin on their designs but I love them so much especially Ludmilla 😊 hi Ludmilla! She is a secretary bird and will fuck you up no question. She is also a Wizard I’m my campaign as she has studied the many tomes in Castle Ravenloft over the centuries

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Caligo wrapped around a golden ring

I love rainbows and color so much, I think It’s fun for the god of something so unknown and scary to be so bright and colorful.

Caligo appears to all that die in Barovia and gently brings them to their new bodies if they are able to reincarnate. Those souls that can’t are sometimes tied to a physical object or just roam the land as a ghost.

The Morninglord has little power here so Caligo picks up after him wherever they can. The Nightmother needs no help with her duties but Caligo likes to bother her for fun.

They use all pronouns btw

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Love this thing

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Caligo the Nebulous, God of the mists!

(Ignore that I spelled it wrong in the drawing I’m dyslexic😭)

They rule over all of the mists not just that of Barovia. Caligo is also the god of the Vistani (and is the reason why they are bird people) it’s common for them to have a cleric of Caligo in the group when traversing the mists.

As you can see Caligo has six different bird heads circled around a mouth with a floating eye in the middle. They have a long serpentine body and two sets of bird legs as well as wings and a tail. (Design is subject to change)

They are neutral in alignment