[fsckboy]

Chesterton's fence

[dijit]

The man cannot be living, ergo there can be no reconciliation, ergo the promise/oath can only exist because nobody bothers to remove it; not because we don’t know the reasons for its existence.

Though largely it wouldn’t matter in this case.

[fsckboy]

>The man cannot be living

you still don't know why the curse was put in place, vampirism, reincarnation, Devil incarnate, there are myriad possible reasons.