Editing Ezmerelda d'Avenir

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'''Ezmerelda d'Avenir''' is an [[Adventurer]] from the [[Demiplane of Dread]] introduced in the [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] adventure module [[Curse of Strahd]] and subsequently canonized in the 5e [[Ravenloft]] campaign [[splatbook]]. She is a student of/heir to [[Van Richten]], a surviving member of the Radanavich family whom Van Richten massacred for selling his son to a [[vampire]] as its sexual slave cum offspring. She lost a leg in that incident, but gets around unimpeded due to using an enchanted wooden prosthetic.

==Controversies==
[[Curse of Strahd]] is full of [[skub]], at least if you look at the major camps of [[Ravenloft]] [[grognard]]s on one side and [[SJW]]s on the other. Ezmererlda is one of those elements that both camps attack, for different reasons.

Old-school fans dislike her because she snarls up the original established continuity for [[Van Richten]]... well, okay, Curse of Strahd does that for Van Richten in general, but Ezmerelda in particular messes up both Van Richten's greatest shame and his subsequent redemption when he came to terms with his racist attitudes towards the [[Vistani]] through interacting with Arturi Radanavich, the original sole survivor of the Radanaviches. Essentially, Ezmeralda at the very least basically retcons Arturi out of the setting entirely and takes his role, whilst also going a step beyond Arturi and becoming Van Richten's appointed heir and/or adoptive daughter... which kind of makes the [[Weathermay-Foxgrove Twins]] superfluous.

SJWs hate her for... well, a couple of things, but the biggest complaints are her connection to the Radanaviches, who are loathed for being highly politically incorrect (leading to their retconning into being ''Vistani Impersonators'' rather than an actual Vistani family in 5e), the fact she is described with the traditional Vistani curse of needing to stay mobile to avoid losing her magic, and the fact she is described in the original Curse of Strahd as being ashamed of her prosthetic and so trying to hide that she has it.

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