# Castle Ravenloft, the Old Tombs

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> ![loc castle ravenloft catacombs tombs 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-catacombs-tombs-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Castle Ravenloft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/castle-ravenloft.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [Castle Ravenloft, the Catacombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-catacombs.md)
> **Quests:** [The Pool of the White Sun](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-pool-of-the-white-sun.md)

## Overview

The oldest tombs under the castle: Sergei von Zarovich's white tomb, a hall of stone guardians, and the vault where King Barov and Queen Ravenovia lie side by side.

Below the crypts the stone changes: older, paler, cut with more care. Somebody loved the people buried here.

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

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Catacombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-catacombs.md):** Stairs down to the old tombs

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs up to the catacombs | [Castle Ravenloft, the Catacombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-catacombs.md) |  |

## Map

![castle ravenloft catacombs tombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/castle-ravenloft-catacombs-tombs.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 catacombs tombs spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-catacombs-tombs-spot1.webp)
*Queen Ravenovia's sarcophagus*

![loc castle ravenloft catacombs tombs spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-catacombs-tombs-spot2.webp)
*Sergei's sarcophagus, a basin of still water*

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Queen Ravenovia's sarcophagus | [Perfume](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#perfume), 60 gp | open it |

**Tarokka treasure spots.** If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Castle Ravenloft Sergeis Tomb (); Castle Ravenloft Tomb of Barov and Ravenovia (cat_ravenovia_sarcophagus)

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | a carved family | History 15 | Name the carved family | lore: King Barov and Queen Ravenovia |

## Fights

- *Strahd stands at the foot of his brother's tomb with one hand on the stone. He finishes what he was saying to…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Old Tombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-old-tombs.md): [Strahd von Zarovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/strahd-von-zarovich.md), [Dire Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.md), [Swarm of Bats](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-bats.md).

- *Three of the stone knights were never stone. They step off their plinths into the aisle, visors turning…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Old Tombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-old-tombs.md): [Strahd's Animated Armor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/strahds-animated-armor.md), [Helmed Horror](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/helmed-horror.md).

- *He is sitting on the edge of the dais between his mother and his father, and the shadows of the vault stand…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Old Tombs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-old-tombs.md): [Strahd von Zarovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/strahd-von-zarovich.md), [Specter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/specter.md).

## Quests and lore

- [The Pool of the White Sun](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-pool-of-the-white-sun.md): At the pool in Krezk, Ireena saw a young man in the water who knew her by another name.