A thick fog that rolled in over the hills of Neverwinter Wood and swallowed the road beneath Garlan Shepard’s wagon. As it thickened, the trees became ghosts in the haze and the road vanished entirely. When it thinned, the party was somewhere else: Barovia.
The mists hang over everything here. The Senostrov brothers at The Gallows Oak are wary of what lurks in them. The Vistani seem to move through them freely, and Laszlo, The Storyteller has offered the party safe passage beyond them in exchange for bringing Arabelle home.
On the road outside Barovia village, Strahd von Zarovich told Retnuh that the mists have a way of unravelling a person’s memory the longer they linger in Barovia. Retnuh found he was already struggling to recall much of his life from before.