[Notices by the Butcher]

[Better Dread than Dead]

[These notices are posted throughout Vallaki. They, eerily enough, seem to not be written with ink but instead with blood.]
 

LET IT BE KNOWN!
 
THOSE WHO SIDE WITH PRETENDERS SHALL BE SHOWN NO MERCY; THOSE WHO SPURN THE LOVE THE COUNTESS HAS FOR HER SUBJECTS... SHALL BE GIVEN NO QUARTER. LET IT BE KNOWN THAT I, VASLAV MARHKOV, ONCE THE BUTCHER OF INVIDIA, NOW DEVOTED SERVANT OF COUNTESS LYSSA VON ZAROVICH, FIRST OF HER NAME, SHALL BROOK NO TREASONOUS ACTIVITY HERE IN VALLAKI, AND THAT THOSE WHO JOIN THE PERFIDIOUS WACHTER FAMILY AND CHOOSE TO TREAD UPON THE PATH TO THEIR OWN RUIN, SHALL RECEIVE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH.