Talk:Inheritance/@comment-43782128-20191011163504/@comment-45033776-20200211164736

It isn't clear what happened, but the dead guy apparently isn't the father. Whoever he is, he apparently died killing a bear, and the stash was already partially dug up. Looks like he came for the treasure and was interrupted by the bear.

The fact that the treasure is in a ruined village when the letter kind of implies otherwise suggests the village was maybe abandoned some time after the father's death. Maybe by the time the son was old enough to receive the letter from his mother, the village was long since destroyed. Dead guy could be the son or could be some other guy who looted the letter and came looking for the treasure himself. But whoever he is, he'd have to know what "Old Ule's house" refers to.