# Castle Ravenloft, the Chapel

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc castle ravenloft chapel 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-chapel-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Castle Ravenloft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/castle-ravenloft.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-main-floor.md)
> **Quests:** [Carry the Dawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/carry-the-dawn.md), [Cold Prayers](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/cold-prayers.md)

## Overview

The castle's chapel: broken pews in the dark, a window that lets in no morning, and an altar under a thick grey quilt of dust. One of the Tarokka's places, and a room where Strahd may wait for the end.

Pews in rows, some split, some fallen. A tall window of coloured glass, black now. A saint whose face has been cut away. An altar so deep in dust it looks soft.

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

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-main-floor.md):** The church doors of the chapel

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back to the chapel passage | [Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-main-floor.md) |  |
| 2 | Back to the chapel passage | [Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-main-floor.md) |  |

## Map

![castle ravenloft chapel](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/castle-ravenloft-chapel.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 castle ravenloft chapel spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-chapel-spot1.webp)
*the altar, under its dust, something under the altar's dust*

![loc castle ravenloft chapel spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-chapel-spot2.webp)
*the poor box*

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | the altar, under its dust | [Candle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#candle) ×4, [Holy Water](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#holy-water) ×2, [Holy Symbol (Reliquary)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#holy-symbol-reliquary) | open it |
| 4 | the poor box | 7 gp | open it |
| 6 | something under the altar's dust (hidden) | [Amulet of the Devout, +3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#amulet-of-the-devout-3) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |

**Tarokka treasure spots.** If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Castle Ravenloft Chapel (crg_chapel_altar)

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | the pews | Religion 16 | Pray in the count's chapel | finds Amulet of the Devout, +3; on a failure: 2d6 necrotic damage |

## Fights

- *Someone is kneeling at the altar. He finishes whatever he was saying, rises, and turns. In the front pews,…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Chapel](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-chapel.md): [Strahd von Zarovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/strahd-von-zarovich.md), [Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md).

## Quests and lore

- [Carry the Dawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/carry-the-dawn.md): On the morning of her vows the Morninglord showed Liriel Dawnsong a valley where the sun had not risen in four hundred years, and told her…
- [Cold Prayers](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/cold-prayers.md): Hedda Ironvow dreamed of a dying sun and a silver raven, and left her chapel before dawn to follow the dream. Since she crossed the mist,…