# Argynvostholt, Ground Floor

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![loc argynvostholt hall 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-hall-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Argynvostholt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/argynvostholt.md) · level 8
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [Argynvostholt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt.md), [The Undercroft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-undercroft.md), [Argynvostholt, Upper Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-upper-floor.md)
> **Quests:** [A Knight, More or Less](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/a-knight-more-or-less.md), [The Dragon's Beacon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-dragons-beacon.md), [The Order of the Silver Dragon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-order-of-the-silver-dragon.md), [The Silver Hoard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-silver-hoard.md)

## Overview

The ground floor of the dragon's house: the great hall where Vladimir Horngaard keeps court over a table of dead knights, the chapel with its dragon window, the armory, a ruined gallery and the servants' hall.

A burned entry hall with a broken statue at its heart; through tall doors north, a great hall where armoured figures sit along a long table; a chapel to the west under a window of coloured glass; an armory, a gallery of fallen banners, and the cold servants' hall.

**Resting:** Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.

![loc argynvostholt hall overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-hall-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Argynvostholt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt.md):** The mansion's front doors
- **From [The Undercroft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-undercroft.md):** The stair up to the servants' hall
- **From [Argynvostholt, Upper Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-upper-floor.md):** Down to the great hall

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the courtyard | [Argynvostholt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt.md) |  |
| 2 | Out to the courtyard | [Argynvostholt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt.md) |  |
| 3 | Up the great stair | [Argynvostholt, Upper Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-upper-floor.md) |  |
| 4 | A stair down to the undercroft | [The Undercroft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-undercroft.md) | tithe told |

## Map

![argynvostholt hall](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/argynvostholt-hall.svg)

**Key:** gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.

### Close up

![loc argynvostholt hall spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-hall-spot1.webp)
*Weapon rack*

![loc argynvostholt hall spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-hall-spot2.webp)
*Pantry cupboard*

![loc argynvostholt hall spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-hall-spot3.webp)
*the chapel altar, a reliquary behind the chapel altar*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (3)
> - **[Argynvost](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/argynvost.md)**, The chapel (#5): when not argynvost beacon lit
> - **[Vladimir Horngaard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/vladimir-horngaard.md)**, The great hall (#6): when vladimir duel won and not vladimir yielded; or when order fate isn't “rest” and not beacon stand begun
> - **[Dead Knight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/dead-knight.md)**, The great hall (#7, #8, #9, #10, #11): when order fate isn't “rest” and not beacon stand begun

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Weapon rack | [Longsword](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#longsword), [Shield](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#shield), [Lance](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#lance) | open it |
| 13 | Iron-bound chest | [Holy Water](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#holy-water) ×2, 60 gp | lock DC 15 |
| 14 | Pantry cupboard | [Candle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#candle) ×6, [Oil](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#oil) ×2, [Lamp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#lamp) | open it |
| 17 | a loose hearthstone (hidden) | [Potion of Healing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#potion-of-healing) | Search: Perception DC 14 |
| 18 | a sword behind the armour stands (hidden) | [Flame Tongue Longsword](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#flame-tongue) | Search: Perception DC 15 |
| 19 | a reliquary behind the chapel altar (hidden) | [Amulet of the Devout, +2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#amulet-of-the-devout-2) | Search: Investigation DC 15 |

**Tarokka treasure spots.** If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Argynvostholt Vladimir ()

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 8 the first time you come ([Random Treasure](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/random-treasure.md)). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.

### Skill checks

| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | the chapel altar | Religion 15 | Pray at the dragon's altar | finds Amulet of the Devout, +2 |
| 16 | Armour stands | Athletics 14 | Shift the armour stands | finds Flame Tongue Longsword |

## Fights

- *Vladimir rises from the winged chair for the first time, and all down the table dead heads turn to watch. He…*, in [Argynvostholt, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.md): [Vladimir Horngaard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vladimir-horngaard.md), [Revenant](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/revenant.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Argynvostholt, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.md)**, when level ≥ 8: [Vladimir Horngaard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vladimir-horngaard.md), Vladimir's second ([Revenant](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/revenant.md)) (4700 XP)
> - **[Argynvostholt, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.md)**, when level ≥ 7: [Vladimir Horngaard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vladimir-horngaard.md) (2900 XP)
> - **[Argynvostholt, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.md)**: [Vladimir Horngaard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vladimir-horngaard.md) (2900 XP)

## Quests and lore

- [A Knight, More or Less](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/a-knight-more-or-less.md): Sir Godrick Pendlebrook was knighted on a deathbed with a soup ladle. He carries his old master's sword into the mists to have it done…
- [The Dragon's Beacon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-dragons-beacon.md): Argynvost lit a beacon at the top of his tower every night so the valley would know someone was keeping watch. It has been dark since he…
- [The Order of the Silver Dragon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-order-of-the-silver-dragon.md): The dead knights of Argynvostholt still keep their watch for a dragon four hundred years gone. Their commander hates Strahd too much to let…
- [The Silver Hoard](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-silver-hoard.md): Argynvost gave his hoard away: every Midwinter the Order left a silver coin on every doorstep in the valley. The last winter's tithe never…

> [!quote]- The oath stone
> Letters cut deep into a slab of grey stone, their edges worn smooth by hands. THE OATH OF THE ORDER OF THE SILVER DRAGON. I will keep the watch while others sleep. I will shield the sleeper and the stranger alike. I will lift up the fallen and ask no price. I will take nothing that is not given. And when the light goes out, I will be the light.

> [!quote]- The roll of honour
> A great book chained to a lectern, its pages swollen with damp. Names in a hundred hands, each with the year that knight took the oath. The last forty names share one date, written in a single hand that pressed so hard it tore the page.