(Keep in mind, it'll probably be easy for commited Ravenloft fans and was intended for people who may not have played it for some time; let me know what you think!) :D
http://funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=199986
But fun. Thanks!
Fun, though.
PS, I think it's Tser Falls, not Tsar, but I don't have my books handy.
Just remember, it was meant for people who may not have played the game for sometime; just a little distraction for people who do play regularly. :P
I saw a quiz similar to that on another site a while back but I forget where.
What would be interesting would be to do different versions of that quiz on specific topics... say one dealing in nothing but darklords or one just on the land. Or even better have a different quiz for each domain.
Man this is sad I know the date of the cretaion of barovia but i dont know the date of the discovery of my country...
Hahaha! That's cause reality sucks. ;)
Maraudar
Although the second domain question almost threw me off - I wanted to say "Mordent". And I'm glad to see my boy Hyksosa get a shout-out!
peace!
MSD
I once use this kind of test to study. I created a test for my friends with all the tough questions I thought might be included in my upcoming exam. I got a B+ but I doubt it was thanks to the test.
BTW, Lyssa von Zarovich is Strahd's grand-niece, not his niece. She's the grandaughter of his surviving brother, Sturm.
10/10, here. Pretty cool!
BTW, Lyssa von Zarovich is Strahd's grand-niece, not his niece. She's the grandaughter of his surviving brother, Sturm.
I beleive Lyssa is Strahd's cousin, and that Sturm is just a name Strahd temporarily adopted. He did this because his public stroy is he was also killed in the wedding masacre, and if he immediately became StrahdII everyone would wonder why they didn't know about his son becouse when he was still alive strahd was much more public than he is today. Because he is almost never in public anymore noone is suprised to find he has a son without them knowing, so he can afford to keep his original name, except now it has a number on it. Of course I'm fairly new to RL so this might be wrong.
, is a result of someone at TSR not noticing the gap between Strahd's generation and Anna's, and/or not checking their math. (Besides, if Lyssa *was* their kid, her surname would be Heitman, not Von Zarovich!) It's possible that Lyssa may at one time have claimed to have been descended from this couple, to hide the true antiquity of her link to the family tree, but she's actually far too old a vampire for that, even ignoring the whole artificial-aging issue. 
Strahd *did* pose as his surviving brother, Sturm, when he led the family vassals who drove the Dilisnyas into hiding, but that doesn't mean that Sturm was never in Ravenloft. (There had to be _someone_ who founded the living bloodline of House Von Zarovich, after all!) In later years, Strahd did start re-appearing in public, in the guise of his descendents; all of the various "Strahd ___" identities he's adopted are allegedly descended from himself ("Strahd I"), not his brother Sturm. Indeed, Barovian law officially excludes anyone but the direct descendents of Strahd I from ruling the nation, as S points out in Gaz I (p. 28); this could be how Strahd ensures his living relations don't get cocky during his hibernations, and try to claim the throne for themselves, IMO.
The business about Anna and Tod Heitman being the parents of Lyssa is a mistake, pure and simple. The Anna von Zarovich on the "Bloodlines" family tree isn't Sturm's child, and she's actually separated from Sturm by over a dozen generations. The claim that Lyssa was the daughter of Anna and Tod, in ToD and CotN
Hmmm... you're right, I'm guilty of the same mistake. Anna and Tod are several generations removed from Sturm. BUT Lysssa's original age does match up with her being their child. They were born in 630 and 633. Figure they disappeared and had their child around 645-665. Thoughts of Darkness occured in 739, according to The Domains of Dread timeline. According to Thoughts of darkness, Lyssa is "Very Old (300-399)" and was aged "over 200 years" by her ghost lover. She would physically be in the 74-94 range, and the extra "over 200" years (however you want to explain them) would put her right in the correct vampire Age Category.
So I think the original version of Lyssa WAS Tod and Anna's daughter, but NOT Sturm's Granddaughter. Just his great-great-....grandaughter. Taking the Von Zarovich name seems perfectly logical, especially to be a thorn in (great-great-....)uncle Strahd's side.
Now Gaz I retcons her birth year to 525. But Sturm died in 382 (and his wife in 370). 155 years is an awfully long time for two generations. Strange that they would move her birth back to call her Sturm's granddaughter again without moving it far enough back to work! :/ And if her birth was moved back another 100 years, it would fit being Sturm's granddaughter AND account for the extra 200 years without fiddling with the whole artificial aging nonsense.
So long story short: Sturm existed. Lyssa (and all the other living and unliving Von Zaroviches) are descended from his line. But no one (maybe not even Lyssa) knows how old she is, or who her parents were.