Overview
Under the roof the dark is full of small sounds: feathers settling, claws shifting on wood, a hundred birds deciding what you are.
Resting: Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs: A hatch down to the ravens' roost
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms: A narrow stair up behind the wardrobe
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up to the roofs |  Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs | |
| 2 | A narrow stair down to Escher's rooms |  Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms |
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 great nest, Small bones
a glint of brass in a nest, a ring in a raven's nest
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | the great nest | Mirror, 35 gp | open it |
| 5 | a ring in a raven's nest (hidden) | Ring of Evasion | Search: Perception DC 15 |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Castle Ravenloft Ravens Roost (spires_great_nest)
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.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Small bones | Acrobatics 16 | Climb the rafters to the high nests | finds Ring of Evasion; on a failure: 2d6 bludgeoning damage |
Traps
| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | a rotten board | 13 | 13 | DEX 13 | 2d6 bludgeoning |
Fights
- The roost goes up all at once: a black storm of wings and beaks and shrieking, pouring down off the beams., in Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost: Swarm of Ravens.
- The roost goes up all at once: a black storm of wings and beaks and shrieking, pouring down off the beams., in Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost: Swarm of Ravens.
Quests and lore
- The Jester's Key: Pidlwick II, the clockwork jester of the high tower, is running down: the ravens took his wind-up key.