# Argynvostholt, Upper Floor

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc argynvostholt upper 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-upper-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Argynvostholt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/argynvostholt.md) · level 8
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [The Beacon Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-beacon-tower.md), [Argynvostholt, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.md)
> **Quests:** [A Knight, More or Less](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/a-knight-more-or-less.md), [The Destined Ally](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-destined-ally.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) and 2 more

## Overview

The upper floor of the dragon's house: the knights' dormitory, the dragon's study and the Order's chronicle, the hall of heroes, Sir Godfrey's room, Vladimir's bare quarters, and the door to the beacon tower.

A landing at the head of the great stair. North, the dragon's study, its shelves half burned; west, a dormitory of beds nobody sleeps in; east, a long gallery of statues ending at the tower door. Two smaller rooms south: one bare, one covered in writing.

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

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [The Beacon Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-beacon-tower.md):** Down to the hall of heroes
- **From [Argynvostholt, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.md):** Up the great stair

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Down to the great hall | [Argynvostholt, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/argynvostholt-ground-floor.md) |  |
| 2 | Up the beacon tower stair | [The Beacon Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-beacon-tower.md) |  |

## Map

![argynvostholt upper](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/argynvostholt-upper.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 upper spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-upper-spot1.webp)
*Footlocker*

![loc argynvostholt upper spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-upper-spot2.webp)
*the dragon's desk, a hidden drawer in the dragon's desk*

![loc argynvostholt upper spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-argynvostholt-upper-spot3.webp)
*a plain chest*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[Sir Godfrey Gwilym](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/sir-godfrey-gwilym.md)**, Sir Godfrey's room (#3): when godfrey met and not sir godfrey gwilym with the party and order fate isn't “rest”

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Footlocker | [Playing Card Set](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#playing-card-set), [Dice Set](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#dice-set), 24 gp | open it |
| 5 | the dragon's desk | [Ink](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#ink), [Ink Pen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#ink-pen), [Parchment](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#parchment) ×3, 35 gp | open it |
| 6 | a plain chest | [Book](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#book), 9 gp | open it |
| 7 | the commander's strongbox | [Spell Scroll (Level 1)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#spell-scroll-level-1), 120 gp | lock DC 18 |
| 9 | a hollow in the empty plinth (hidden) | [Ring of Resistance (Cold)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#ring-of-resistance-cold) | Search: Investigation DC 16 |
| 10 | a hidden drawer in the dragon's desk (hidden) | [Wand of Enemy Detection](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#wand-of-enemy-detection) | Search: Investigation DC 16 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Burned bookcases | Arcana 15 | Search the burned books for a spell | Spell Scroll (Dispel Magic) |

### Traps

| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Rotten boards | 13 | 12 | DEX 13 | 2d6 bludgeoning |

## 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 Destined Ally](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-destined-ally.md): Madam Eva's fourth card named the one who will stand with us against the devil.
- [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…
- [The Squire](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-squire.md): A Vallaki boy has run away to Argynvostholt to swear the dead Order's oath, and since the Order won't take the living, he means to wait on…

> [!quote]- The Order's chronicle
> The chronicle of the Order of the Silver Dragon, in many hands. Its founding by the Lord Argynvost, who kept a lamp burning in his tower so that the valley would know it was watched. Tournaments, a flood, a wolf winter. Then the army over the mountains, the passes lost one by one, the house besieged. The last page is in a heavy, careful hand: The house fell tonight. My lord died in the courtyard. They have taken his head to the castle to hang on a wall. The Order will not rest. V.H.

> [!quote]- Writing on the wall
> The whole wall is covered in charcoal, floor to as high as a tall man can reach, in a big careful hand. Names, and after each one a few words. Sir Teodor: pears, and his grey mare. Sir Bastian: arguing. Dame Ilona: her son, who lived. Sir Mattias: songs he got wrong on purpose. Hundreds more. Near the bottom, smudged and gone over many times: Godfrey: Gwenllian, who laughed like a goose. The light. The oath. Remember the oath.

> [!quote]- The duty roster
> A duty roster, kept every night in the same square hand for longer than anyone should keep anything. Gate: Teodor, Bastian. Wall: Ilona, Mattias. Beacon: none. Beacon: none. Beacon: none. Every night the same, and under each night one line: All present. None dismissed.