# Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping

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> [!infobox]
> ![loc castle ravenloft court weeping 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-court-weeping-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Castle Ravenloft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/castle-ravenloft.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** no
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [Castle Ravenloft, the Court of the Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-court-of-the-count.md)
> **Quests:** [Mary's Daughter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/marys-daughter.md), [The Last Lesson](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-last-lesson.md)

## Overview

The castle's third floor, where the count lives: his bedroom and bath, the gallery where his portrait watches, the lounge where his three brides wait, the guest room where a village girl is kept, and Rahadin's bare room.

A long corridor lined with closed doors. Somewhere along it, always just out of sight, someone is crying very quietly.

**Resting:** no Someone weeps behind the walls all night, never louder and never closer. Nobody sleeps on this floor.

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Court of the Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-court-of-the-count.md):** Stairs up to the rooms above

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs down to the Court of the Count | [Castle Ravenloft, the Court of the Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-court-of-the-count.md) |  |

## Map

![castle ravenloft court weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/castle-ravenloft-court-weeping.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 court weeping spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-court-weeping-spot1.webp)
*a black wardrobe*

![loc castle ravenloft court weeping spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-court-weeping-spot2.webp)
*a jewel box*

![loc castle ravenloft court weeping spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-court-weeping-spot3.webp)
*a small cabinet*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (5)
> - **[Volenta Popofsky](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/volenta-popofsky.md)**, The lounge (#2): when not court brides met and not court brides fought; or when not court brides fought
> - **[Ludmilla Vilisevic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/ludmilla-vilisevic.md)**, The lounge (#3): when not court brides fought
> - **[Anastrasya Karelova](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/anastrasya-karelova.md)**, Anastrasya's room, The lounge (#4, #5): when court brides fought and court anastrasya story and not anastrasya at rest; or when not court brides fought
> - **[Gertruda](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/gertruda.md)**, The guest bedroom (#6): when gertruda given back; or when not gertruda rescued
> - **[Rahadin](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/rahadin.md)**, Rahadin's room (#7): when not rahadin defeated and not gertruda with the party

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | a black wardrobe | [Fine Clothes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#fine-clothes) ×2 | open it |
| 9 | a jewel box | 300 gp | lock DC 17 |
| 10 | a small cabinet | [Perfume](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#perfume) ×2 | open it |
| 11 | a glass cabinet | [Potion of Healing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#potion-of-healing) ×2 | open it |
| 12 | a wardrobe of gowns | [Fine Clothes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#fine-clothes) ×3 | open it |
| 13 | Ludmilla's books | [Book](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#book) ×2, [Perfume](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#perfume) | open it |
| 14 | a plain trunk | [Traveler's Clothes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#travelers-clothes), 3 gp | open it |
| 15 | a painted chest | [Dagger](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#dagger), [Playing Card Set](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#playing-card-set), 45 gp | open it |
| 16 | a sword rack | [Scimitar](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#scimitar) ×2, [Dagger](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#dagger) | open it |
| 17 | a footlocker | [Potion of Healing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#potion-of-healing), 150 gp | lock DC 17 |
| 19 | a space behind the mirror that shows no one (hidden) | [Cloak of Displacement](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#cloak-of-displacement) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |
| 20 | a grimoire among Ludmilla's books (hidden) | [Arcane Grimoire, +3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#arcane-grimoire-3) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | a card table | Stealth 15 | Listen to the brides' gossip unseen | lore: The brides' gossip |

### Locked and secret doors

- the count's bedroom door: lock DC 16

## Fights

- *The painted count turns his head to follow you down the gallery. The armour on either side of him lifts its…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md): [Guardian Portrait](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/guardian-portrait.md), [Strahd's Animated Armor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/strahds-animated-armor.md).

- *Ludmilla closes her book. Volenta claps her hands. Anastrasya turns her face to the wall and does not move.*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md): [Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md)**, when court anastrasya story: Ludmilla Vilisevic ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Volenta Popofsky ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (3600 XP)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md)**: Ludmilla Vilisevic ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Volenta Popofsky ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)), Anastrasya Karelova ([Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md)) (5400 XP)

- *Rahadin rises from his cot as if he has been expecting this, and the screaming rises with him.*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md): [Rahadin](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/rahadin.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md)**: [Rahadin](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/rahadin.md) (5900 XP)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Rooms of Weeping](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-rooms-of-weeping.md)**, when not rahadin defeated: [Rahadin](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/rahadin.md) (5900 XP)

## Quests and lore

- [Mary's Daughter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/marys-daughter.md): Mad Mary's daughter Gertruda, sixteen and never once allowed outside, slipped out of the house a few nights ago and hasn't come back.
- [The Last Lesson](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-last-lesson.md): Wren Featherfoot's old master, a dusk elf called Sorrel, died before Wren's training was finished, and left him one errand: a sealed letter…

> [!quote]- A ledger of names
> Name after name in a neat hand, columns of them, page after page, each with a date and nothing else. The first dates are older than the castle. The newest is last week.