Overview
Below the main floor: the servants' hall, the kitchen where Cyrus Belview still cooks for his Master's guests, the larder, the wine cellar with one bricked-over rack, the guardroom of a watch nobody relieved, the lift winch, and the jailers' stair down to the dungeon and on to the crypts.
Low vaulted passages smelling of smoke, onions and something under the onions. A kitchen fire is the only warm thing for a hundred feet in any direction.
Resting: Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Catacombs: Stairs up to the dungeon
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Stairs up to the larders
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: The lift cage, up to the larders
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor: The servants' stairs down to the kitchens
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs up to the main floor |  Castle Ravenloft, the Main Floor | |
| 2 | Stairs down to the dungeon |  Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon | |
| 3 | The long stair, down to the crypts |  Castle Ravenloft, the Catacombs | |
| 4 | The lift cage, down to the cells | Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon | larders lift ready |
Map
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
the larder shelves
the watch's lockers
the lift winch
People
Who turns up at points in the story (1)
- Cyrus Belview, The kitchen (#5): when not larders cyrus slain
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | the larder shelves | Ration ×6, Oil ×2, Tinderbox | open it |
| 7 | a painted box under the bed | Candle ×3, 7 gp | open it |
| 8 | the watch's lockers | Longsword ×2, Chain Shirt, Shield, 40 gp | open it |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Castle Ravenloft Wine Cellar ()
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 10 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Fights
- Dead men in the castle's livery sit up on their pallets. Two suits of armour by the door turn their empty…, in Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen: Wight, Helmed Horror, Strahd Zombie.
- Cyrus's shriek goes down the guards' run like a bell. Boots answer it, and some of them are not boots., in Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen: Wight, Helmed Horror, Strahd Zombie.
- Cyrus snatches up a cleaver in one hand and a ladle in the other, weeping., in Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen: Mongrelfolk.
Quests and lore
- The Cook's Guests: Below Castle Ravenloft's kitchen, the cook keeps his Master's guests fresh in the cells.