# Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost

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> ![loc castle ravenloft spires roost 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-roost-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Castle Ravenloft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/castle-ravenloft.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md), [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md)
> **Quests:** [The Jester's Key](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-jesters-key.md)

## Overview

The long space under the castle's roofs where hundreds of ravens roost on the beams. They hide bright things in their nests, and they watch everything.

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.

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md):** A hatch down to the ravens' roost
- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md):** A narrow stair up behind the wardrobe

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up to the roofs | [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md) |  |
| 2 | A narrow stair down to Escher's rooms | [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md) |  |

## Map

![castle ravenloft spires roost](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/castle-ravenloft-spires-roost.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 spires roost spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-roost-spot1.webp)
*the great nest, Small bones*

![loc castle ravenloft spires roost spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-roost-spot2.webp)
*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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#mirror), 35 gp | open it |
| 5 | a ring in a raven's nest (hidden) | [Ring of Evasion](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#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](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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-ravens-roost.md): [Swarm of Ravens](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-ravens.md).

- *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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-ravens-roost.md): [Swarm of Ravens](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-ravens.md).

## Quests and lore

- [The Jester's Key](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-jesters-key.md): Pidlwick II, the clockwork jester of the high tower, is running down: the ravens took his wind-up key.