# The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc amber temple faceless god 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-temple-faceless-god-1.webp)
> **Region:** [The Amber Temple](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-amber-temple.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [The Amber Temple: the Doors](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-doors.md), [The Amber Temple: the Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-library.md), [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md)
> **Quests:** [A Seat at the Table](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/a-seat-at-the-table.md), [The Amber Temple](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-amber-temple.md), [The Last Lesson](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-last-lesson.md), [The Wailing Hall](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-wailing-hall.md)

## Overview

The temple's great hall, cut out of the mountain around a colossal robed statue whose face was never carved. East lies the ring of amber, where six sarcophagi talk; west, the frozen reading hall where something wails; north, the wardens' cells, the library passage and the stair down to the vaults.

Every sound you make comes back to you a moment later, slightly changed.

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

![loc amber temple faceless god overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-temple-faceless-god-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [The Amber Temple: the Doors](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-doors.md):** Up the stairs to the great hall
- **From [The Amber Temple: the Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-library.md):** The passage back to the great hall
- **From [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md):** Stairs up to the great hall

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs down to the doors | [The Amber Temple: the Doors](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-doors.md) |  |
| 2 | The library passage | [The Amber Temple: the Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-library.md) |  |
| 3 | Stairs down to the vaults | [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md) |  |

## Map

![amber temple faceless god](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/amber-temple-faceless-god.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 amber temple faceless god spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-temple-faceless-god-spot1.webp)
*Offerings at the statue's feet, the faceless god*

![loc amber temple faceless god spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-temple-faceless-god-spot2.webp)
*a warden's chest*

![loc amber temple faceless god spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-temple-faceless-god-spot3.webp)
*a warden's locker*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[Patrina Velikovna](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/patrina-velikovna.md)**, The hall of echoes (#4): when not patrina fate and not patrina destroyed

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Offerings at the statue's feet | [Candle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#candle) ×6, [Holy Symbol (Amulet)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#holy-symbol-amulet), 64 gp | open it |
| 6 | a warden's chest | [Spellbook](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#spellbook), [Ink](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#ink), [Ink Pen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#ink-pen), [Robe](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#robe), 20 gp | open it |
| 7 | a warden's locker | [Spell Scroll (Level 1)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#spell-scroll-level-1) ×2, [Potion of Healing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#potion-of-healing), 35 gp | lock DC 14 |
| 8 | a student's desk | [Paper](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#paper) ×5, [Magnifying Glass](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#magnifying-glass) | open it |
| 10 | a loose stone in a warden's cell (hidden) | [Ioun Stone (Insight)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#ioun-stone-insight) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |
| 11 | a drawer in the desk kept clear of frost (hidden) | [Tome of Leadership and Influence](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#tome-of-leadership-and-influence) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |

**Tarokka treasure spots.** If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Amber Temple Faceless God (statue_offerings)

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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | the faceless god | Religion 16 | Read the faceless god's rite | reveals faceless_gaze; disarms faceless gaze; on a failure: 2d8 psychic damage |

### Traps

| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | A crack in the floor, breathing | 15 | 16 | CON 15 | 4d8 cold |
| 13 | Where the statue's blank face looks | 16 | 0 | WIS 15 | 3d8 psychic |

## Fights

- *Things that were people once come scuttling from behind the sarcophagi, each with one great eye where a face…*, in [The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md): [Nothic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/nothic.md), [Wraith](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wraith.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md)**, when not hollow eyed cleared and level ≥ 10: 5 × Hollow-eyed seeker ([Nothic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/nothic.md)), 3 × Warden's wraith ([Wraith](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wraith.md)) (7650 XP)
> - **[The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md)**, when not hollow eyed cleared and level ≥ 8: 4 × Hollow-eyed seeker ([Nothic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/nothic.md)), 3 × Warden's wraith ([Wraith](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wraith.md)) (7200 XP)
> - **[The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md)**, when not hollow eyed cleared: 4 × Hollow-eyed seeker ([Nothic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/nothic.md)), Warden's wraith ([Wraith](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wraith.md)) (3600 XP)

- *Patrina screams, and the frozen students at their desks lift their heads to scream with her.*, in [The Amber Temple: Hall of the Faceless God](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-hall-of-the-faceless-god.md): [Banshee](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/banshee.md), [Specter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/specter.md). Part of [The Wailing Hall](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-wailing-hall.md).

## Quests and lore

- [A Seat at the Table](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/a-seat-at-the-table.md): Ratatouille learned magic so that people would sit with him. He crossed the mists to apprentice himself to the Wizard of Wines, a master of…
- [The Amber Temple](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-amber-temple.md): High above the Tsolenka Pass, a temple of amber where dead powers talk and bargain, and where the lord of the valley once made his.
- [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…
- [The Wailing Hall](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-wailing-hall.md): In the frozen reading hall of the Amber Temple, a dead woman weeps over a book that will not stay whole.