Ezmerelda d'Avenir

Ezmerelda d'Avenir is a capable human warrior. She has a magical rapier and knows a series of powerful spells.

She was a student of Dr Rudolph van Richten and followed him to Barovia in order to assist him.

History
Ezmerelda was a student of van Richten, who taught her about lore and how to fight and kill monsters.

Ezmerelda chose to follow van Richten into Barovia in order to help him, although he seems reluctant to let her find him. Ezmerelda advised that she knows the Vistani so was able to obtain their help to pass through the mist into the valley.

The party of Hallgrimm Mikkenson, Sigismund, and Narid Ashplantt first found her upstairs in the Abbey of St Markovia in Krezk. She told the party that the Abbot was not to be trusted, but that she had no interest in him or in retrieving Ireena Indirovich. Her sole focus was to find van Richten. She handily dispatched of the shadows which attacked the party in the Abbey.

The party found her trailer at Baratok Tower but she was not inside either the tower or her trailer. Her trailer contained several useful spell scrolls, pages from her journal written about van Richten's past, and was completely booby trapped with alchemists fire, which Sigismund and Hallgrimm almost tripped.

When Hallgrimm and Narid were on their way to spy on the druids at Yester Hill she appeared on the route and told them that the druids appeared to be planning some kind of ceremony, which Narid suggested could be Wintersplinter. At Yester Hill she turned herself invisible and killed many of the druids before Hallgrimm or Narid could get close to them. After the druids had been defeated she agreed to keep an eye on the hill and retrieve the missing gem from the Wizards of the Wine for the Martikovs, which was thought to be on one of the druids bodies.

When Eklyre Temere accidentally opened a portal to the Nine Hells Hallgrimm sent a note to Ezmerelda to ask her to help, which she exasperatedly did.

She was kidnapped by Strahd on the day of his wedding.