# The Mad Mage's Hut

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc mount baratok hut 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-mount-baratok-hut-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Mount Baratok](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/mount-baratok.md) · level 9
> **Resting:** Safe
> **Light:** dim
> **Getting here:** [Mount Baratok](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/mount-baratok.md)
> **Quests:** [A Seat at the Table](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/a-seat-at-the-table.md), [The Destined Ally](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-destined-ally.md), [The Drowned Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-drowned-library.md), [The Forgotten Storm](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-forgotten-storm.md) and 3 more

## Overview

A stone hut colder inside than out: a dragonchess board with frost on the pieces, a mirror turned to the wall, shelves of blank books, and an old man in a magnificent ruin of a robe.

One room with a sleeping corner and a study divided off by a half wall. The hearth has never been lit; the cold doesn't seem to bother him.

**Resting:** Safe: a Long Rest here isn't interrupted.

![loc mount baratok hut overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-mount-baratok-hut-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Mount Baratok](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/mount-baratok.md):** The stone hut's door

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out into the cold | [Mount Baratok](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/mount-baratok.md) |  |

## Map

![mount baratok hut](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/mount-baratok-hut.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 mount baratok hut spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-mount-baratok-hut-spot1.webp)
*a travelling satchel*

![loc mount baratok hut spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-mount-baratok-hut-spot2.webp)
*a chess piece that isn't a piece*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (2)
> - **[The Mad Mage](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/the-mad-mage.md)**, The hut (#2): when not mordenkainen restored
> - **[Mordenkainen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/mordenkainen.md)**, The hut (#2): when mordenkainen restored and not mordenkainen with the party

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | a travelling satchel | [Ration](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#ration) ×2, [Component Pouch](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#component-pouch) | open it |
| 4 | a chess piece that isn't a piece (hidden) | [Figurine of Wondrous Power (Serpentine Owl)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#figurine-of-wondrous-power-serpentine-owl) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |
| 5 | one book on the shelf that isn't blank (hidden) | [Tome of Understanding](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#tome-of-understanding) | Search: Investigation DC 17 |

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 9 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.

## 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 Destined Ally](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-destined-ally.md): Madam Eva's fourth card named the one who will stand with us against the devil.
- [The Drowned Library](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-drowned-library.md): Something whispers up the old well on the shore of Lake Baratok, from the archmage Khazan's library under the lake: don't come down.
- [The Forgotten Storm](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-forgotten-storm.md): Every evening lightning lands on the ring of glass on Mount Baratok. The mage told it something once, and it's still doing it.
- [The Mad Mage of Mount Baratok](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-mad-mage-of-mount-baratok.md): A powerful wizard lives alone on Mount Baratok with his memory gone. Someone took it on purpose.
- [The Mage's Lost Pages](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-mages-lost-pages.md): Mordenkainen's memory came back with pages missing: letters in a hand he knows better than his own, and no name with it.
- [The Name Over the Door](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-name-over-the-door.md): Mordenkainen says the archmage who built the tower on the tarn never died: he moved downstairs, and he's waking.