Ann Campbell

Continuity Problem

Ann Campbell and her family are described as being from Dementlieu and she is described as being killed over a century ago on the Wescote Estate in Mordent. The continuity problem is that she and the rest of the Campbells cannot have come Dementlieu over half-century before it existed. Hence it is suggested in John W. Mangrum's timeline that Ann become Anna Clause and that the Campbells become the Clauses from Krezk in Barovia.

Ann Campbell or Anna Clause was born in the first half of the prior century. Her family was wealthy and had immigrated to Mordent in the last decade or two. In 643 BC, an arranged marriage was imposed upon her and Burton Wescote. Her family had had somewhat tense relations with the Wescotes. On the night of the marriage, she was involved in the death of Michael Wescote, Burton's brother, in what may or may not have been an accident. Shortly thereafter, she was chased into a bog by Burton's hounds. There she drowned, but not before cursing Burton to an eternity of suffering. Burton in fact lived for over century, during the last ten decades of which he aged not a day, was haunted by her ghost, and witnessed the bogs devour his estate. In 743 BC, he sought the intervention of adventurers. They were able to break the curse, putting thereby an end to Burton's life, the Wescote family, and her haunting of the Great Moor.

Data from the Ravenloft Catalogue

		Howls in The Night
		Howls in The Night - p21,27,30
		Howls in The Night - pp30-31
		Howls in The Night - pp2-8,23-24,30-31