# Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs

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> [!infobox]
> ![loc castle ravenloft spires roofs 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-roofs-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Castle Ravenloft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/castle-ravenloft.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** no
> **Light:** dim, outdoors
> **Getting here:** [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md), [Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-ravens-roost.md)
> **Quests:** [Escher's Petition](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/eschers-petition.md)

## Overview

The roofs of Castle Ravenloft: the south tower's battlements, a walkway to the slate roof of the keep, and a narrow bridge across the drop to the north tower peak, where stone guardians crouch on the parapet.

Wind, and nothing between you and the valley but a parapet. Slate roofs fall away on every side, and beyond them a long, long drop.

**Resting:** no The wind up here would take a blanket and the sleeper in it.

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md):** Up to the roofs
- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-ravens-roost.md):** Up to the roofs

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A hatch down to the tower rooms | [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md) |  |
| 2 | A hatch down to the ravens' roost | [Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-ravens-roost.md) |  |

## Map

![castle ravenloft spires roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/castle-ravenloft-spires-roofs.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 roofs spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-roofs-spot1.webp)
*a guardian that never moved*

![loc castle ravenloft spires roofs spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-roofs-spot2.webp)
*Ravens on the ridge*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[Escher](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/escher.md)**, The south tower roof (#3): when night and (quest escher petition at asked or quest escher petition at held)

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | a guardian that never moved | 60 gp | open it |

**Tarokka treasure spots.** If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Castle Ravenloft North Tower Peak (spires_hollow_guardian)

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 | Ravens on the ridge | Acrobatics 14 | Walk the roof ridge | reveals spires_slick_slates; on a failure: 2d6 bludgeoning damage |

### Traps

| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | slick slates | 13 | 20 | DEX 14 | 3d6 bludgeoning |

## Fights

- *The carvings on the parapet turn their heads. Stone grinds on stone as wings unfold that were never meant to…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md): [Gargoyle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/gargoyle.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md)**, when not peak guardians cleared and level ≥ 11: 8 × Stone Guardian ([Gargoyle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/gargoyle.md)) (3600 XP)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md)**, when not peak guardians cleared and level ≥ 10: 6 × Stone Guardian ([Gargoyle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/gargoyle.md)) (2700 XP)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md)**, when not peak guardians cleared: 4 × Stone Guardian ([Gargoyle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/gargoyle.md)) (1800 XP)

- *Querreth comes down onto the tower roof on red wings, and its chains come with it, full of grey shapes that…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md): [Querreth](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/querreth.md), [Wraith](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wraith.md). Scales with your level. Part of [Escher's Petition](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/eschers-petition.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md)**, when not escher note read: [Querreth](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/querreth.md), 2 × One Who Asked ([Wraith](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wraith.md)) (10800 XP; surprise: party)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md)**: [Querreth](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/querreth.md), 2 × One Who Asked ([Wraith](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wraith.md)) (10800 XP)

## Quests and lore

- [Escher's Petition](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/eschers-petition.md): Every night for nine years Escher has slid the same petition under the count's door: let me see the sun. Now an answer has come back.