# Castle Ravenloft, the Treasury

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc castle ravenloft court treasury 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-court-treasury-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)

## Overview

A vault between the floors, reached by a narrow stair behind a portrait in the King's Hall. The count's hoard lies in heaps on the floor, centuries of tithes he has never needed to spend.

A low vault at the foot of a narrow stair. Coin lies on the floor in drifts, with chests and caskets sunk in it like rocks in snow.

**Resting:** no Not on his gold. Not with the stair the only way out.

![loc castle ravenloft court treasury overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-court-treasury-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):** Secret stair down behind the portrait

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Secret stair up to the King's Hall | [Castle Ravenloft, the Court of the Count](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-court-of-the-count.md) |  |

## Map

![castle ravenloft court treasury](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/castle-ravenloft-court-treasury.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 treasury spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-castle-ravenloft-court-treasury-spot1.webp)
*Heaps of coin, a chair on the hoard*

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Heaps of coin | 1200 gp | open it |
| 3 | an iron strongbox | [Manual of Gainful Exercise](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#manual-of-gainful-exercise), 600 gp | lock DC 18 |
| 4 | a casket of gems | 400 gp | open it |

**Tarokka treasure spots.** If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Castle Ravenloft Treasury (court_treasury_hoard)

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 | a chair on the hoard | Arcana 17 | Read the glyph on the bottom step | reveals court_vault_glyph; disarms court vault glyph; on a failure: 3d8 thunder damage |

### Traps

| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | a glyph on the bottom step | 16 | 15 | DEX 15 | 5d8 lightning |

## Fights

- *He sits on his hoard in a chair that has sunk to its knees in gold, turning one coin over and over in his…*, in [Castle Ravenloft, the Treasury](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-treasury.md): [Strahd von Zarovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/strahd-von-zarovich.md), [Helmed Horror](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/helmed-horror.md).