# Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![loc castle ravenloft spires rooms 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-rooms-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Castle Ravenloft](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/castle-ravenloft.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [Castle Ravenloft, the High Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-high-tower.md), [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.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), [The Heart of Sorrow](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-heart-of-sorrow.md)

## Overview

The rooms high in the towers, off a narrow gallery: the count's bats, a stillroom of four glass vessels, a coven at its cauldron, Escher locked in his suite, and a ladder to the roofs.

A narrow gallery with doors on both sides. Somewhere a pot is boiling, somewhere bats are shifting, and behind one locked door somebody is humming.

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

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the High Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-high-tower.md):** The door to the tower rooms
- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md):** A hatch down to the tower rooms
- **From [Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-ravens-roost.md):** A narrow stair down to Escher's rooms

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The door to the high tower | [Castle Ravenloft, the High Tower](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-high-tower.md) |  |
| 2 | Up to the roofs | [Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-roofs.md) |  |
| 3 | A narrow stair up behind the wardrobe | [Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-ravens-roost.md) | spires back stair found or spires back stair told |

## Map

![castle ravenloft spires rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/castle-ravenloft-spires-rooms.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 rooms spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-rooms-spot1.webp)
*the bat-keeper's trunk*

![loc castle ravenloft spires rooms spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-rooms-spot2.webp)
*a glass-fronted cabinet*

![loc castle ravenloft spires rooms spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-spires-rooms-spot3.webp)
*the witches' shelf*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[Escher](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/escher.md)**, Escher's suite (#4): when not escher fight won and not escher saw dawn and not (night and (quest escher petition at asked or quest escher petition at held))

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | the bat-keeper's trunk | [Rope](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#rope), [Vial](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#vial) ×2, 30 gp | open it |
| 6 | a glass-fronted cabinet | [Potion of Healing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#potion-of-healing) ×2, [Alchemist's Fire](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#alchemists-fire) ×2, [Acid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#acid), [Vial](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#vial) ×3 | open it |
| 7 | the witches' shelf | [Herbalism Kit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#herbalism-kit), [Basic Poison](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#basic-poison), [Candle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#candle) ×4, 25 gp | open it |
| 8 | Escher's dressing table | [Perfume](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#perfume), [Fine Clothes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#fine-clothes), 180 gp | open it |
| 9 | something in the cauldron's ashes (hidden) | [Wand of Fear](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#wand-of-fear) | Search: Perception DC 15 |

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.

### Locked and secret doors

- Escher's door: lock DC 16

## Fights

- *Around the cauldron, women in black rags look up all at once with the same wet smile. The brew heaves, and…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md): [Barovian Witch](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/barovian-witch.md), [Black Pudding](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/black-pudding.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md)**, when not cauldron coven cleared and level ≥ 11: 8 × [Barovian Witch](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/barovian-witch.md), [Black Pudding](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/black-pudding.md) (1900 XP)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md)**, when not cauldron coven cleared and level ≥ 10: 6 × [Barovian Witch](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/barovian-witch.md), [Black Pudding](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/black-pudding.md) (1700 XP)
> - **[Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md)**, when not cauldron coven cleared: 4 × [Barovian Witch](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/barovian-witch.md), [Black Pudding](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/black-pudding.md) (1500 XP)

- *Escher's smile goes long in the teeth. The bats in the canopy of his bed come down like a dropped curtain.*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md): [Vampire Spawn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vampire-spawn.md), [Swarm of Bats](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/swarm-of-bats.md).

## 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.
- [The Heart of Sorrow](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-heart-of-sorrow.md): At the top of Castle Ravenloft's high tower hangs a crystal heart that takes Strahd's wounds before he does.