Como é resolvida a contradição na história de fundo deste NPC em Maldição de Strahd?

AFAIK não há erratas neste

No entanto, foi assim que eu resolvi ...

Ambos são verdadeiros

Ezmerelda simply doesn’t know that the zombies had anything to do with Richten. She saw him leave and assumed that he spared their lives. Then the zombies came and killed many but not all of her family and Richten assumed that all of them had died. Richten now knows the truth but Ezmerelda doesn’t - it was this that was at the heart of the breakdown of their relationship.

Agora, quão divertido é aquele vai ser quando tudo sair?

Estou executando um jogo de Curse of Strahd lentamente para algumas pessoas, se surgir, acho que existem algumas maneiras diferentes de lidar com isso. A resposta que Dale M dá pode fazer sentido.

A outra coisa é que os dois poderiam ser verdadeiros, porque

van Richten's journal doesn't say that Ezmerelda's family was there. It's possible that this was part of the caravan but she and her family weren't there. He's upset by the caravan so he kills them all, but then tracks down Ezmerelda's family and realizing what he had done was wrong and the additional bloodshed he's caused, he's more willing to forgive them. So both of them could be true simply because van Richten killed off a lot of her family, but not her immediate family.

Há um longo post no reddit aqui discutindo esse problema, sem resultados satisfatórios (na minha opinião). No entanto, um post vinculado este post no Sage Advice em que Chris Perkins afirma "um é uma falsidade e o outro é a verdade".

Supondo que aceitemos isso, há várias coisas que podemos usar para deduzir qual afirmação é verdadeira. Primeiramente:

Ezmerelda's backstory is given directly to the DM in appendix D of the CoS campaign guide. If this information is false, then what other parts of the campaign guide are false?

Por outro lado,

Von Richten's story is given to us as a journal entry---a handout to be read by the players. It is perfectly reasonable for these to contain falsehoods; consider the two versions of Kolyan Indirovich's letter, for example.

Aqui está um motivo potencial para a falsidade:

Von Richten lied in his journal to protect Ezmerelda's identity. Though they fell out, he still cares for her. He knows that he may well die in his attempt to kill Strahd, and in that scenario RvR does not want Strahd to be able to find out about Ezmerelda. He wrote a false story in which Ez dies, and he left this page unburned on purpose (there's no way someone as careful and experienced as RvR would really miss an entire page when burning a journal).

Isso nos deixa com as seguintes perguntas.

How did RvR get his Vistani curse? If his journal entry is a lie, then what really happened?

Publicação de guildsbounty fornece uma resolução satisfatória.

I personally would change the curse from written to verbal; the Vistani could just curse him when they're leaving after he refuses to treat their sick.

Por fim, para explicar o estado atual das coisas:

RvR and Ez parted ways after he could not get over his mistrust of Vistani and thoughts of revenge. Since then he has added the Vistani to his "monster list" and has killed many. This explains his current plan with the tiger.

ALTERNATIVAMENTE

Ignore the book. RvR did murder Ezmerelda's caravan. Ezmerelda is much younger in this version of events, and even in his rage RvR couldn't bring himself to kill her. He raised her as his daughter and monster hunting protege. She does not remember her family's slaughter. She also doesn't know what her family did to RvR and his son. Ez and RvR split up for the same reason: RvR doesn't trust Vistani. Benefits of this version of events: i) RvR gets a much darker and more interesting character. ii) We gain a narrative device---a secret only RvR knows, which would turn Ez against him if she found out.

Ezmerelda é "negociado" pelo filho de Van Richten neste momento, então acrescentei ao seu diário: depois que ele desencadeou o ataque de zumbis e voltou para seus aposentos, seu coração afundou de culpa ao ver a jovem garota vistani - não porque sentia pesar pelos seqüestradores traiçoeiros que lhe haviam roubado o filho, mas como a jovem inocente não fazia parte disso, ainda sofreria e provavelmente morreria por conta própria. Como tal, ele cuidaria dela como sua, para que ela sobreviva, e ele diz a ela que uma horda de zumbis havia caído sobre toda a caravana, e ele só testemunhou as consequências. Após semanas de desconexão e retirada, ela implora que ele a ajude a aprender a lutar, para que possa se vingar dos mortos-vivos.