that was a tale i heard from some dnd friends who ran it with fem!strahd and the players ended up hitting on her and... i'm not sure how it went... but helped her with barovia domination or something
strahd being a woman puts a whole new twist on the irina obsession, although you may also want to flip the gender on that one too if you feel like people would get upset about a queer villain
Oh what's this? Lady!Strahd? Please tell me more, mysterious and wonderful pdf