The Crimson Vault of House Varden

Beneath the ruined townhouse of a long-fallen noble house, the party pried open a hidden vault where the vampire lord—once a scion of House Varden—kept the family's most intimate treasures. The vampire had taken what pleased its blood-slick taste: portraits that still smelled faintly of iron, a selection of fine dress and jewelry soaked with the echo of midnight rites, a silvered dagger for dealing with paladins, and one discreetly enchanted blade the vampire used when it needed to feel the old prestige of duels. Some papers and tokens speak to alliances, debts, and a ledger that could be worth as much as any coin when given to the right noble or investigator.