# The Miller's Lane

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc old bonegrinder track 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-old-bonegrinder-track-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Old Bonegrinder](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/old-bonegrinder.md) · level 6
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dim, outdoors
> **Getting here:** the travel map (The Miller's Lane)
> **Quests:** [The Fourth Sister](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-fourth-sister.md)

## Overview

The rutted lane between the Old Svalich Road and the windmill on the crag: pines, ditches, and the cart tracks of someone who comes this way every week. Where the lane's random fights and meetings play out.

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

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **The travel map:** The Miller's Lane, in Old Bonegrinder. It shows once quest.the fourth sister.

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On along the lane | the travel map |  |
| 2 | On along the lane | the travel map |  |

## Map

![old bonegrinder track](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/old-bonegrinder-track.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 old bonegrinder track spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-old-bonegrinder-track-spot1.webp)
*a wayside shrine, an offering behind the wayside shrine*

![loc old bonegrinder track spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-old-bonegrinder-track-spot2.webp)
*Something in the ditch*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[Mouse](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/mouse.md)**, The miller's lane (#3, #4): when morgantha slain and not granny ash slain and not mouse fate; or when quest the fourth sister at granny and not mouse fate; or when granny ash slain and not mouse fate

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Something in the ditch (hidden) | [Potion of Gaseous Form](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#potion-of-gaseous-form) | Search: Perception DC 13 |
| 7 | an offering behind the wayside shrine (hidden) | [Potion of Resistance (Poison)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#potion-of-resistance-poison) | Search: Perception DC 13 |

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 6 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 wayside shrine | Religion 13 | Pray at the wayside shrine | finds Potion of Resistance (Poison) |

## Fights

- *The pretty face slides off Bella like dough off a board.*, in [The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md): [Night Hag](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/night-hag.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**, when level ≥ 6: Bella Sunbane ([Night Hag](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/night-hag.md)) (1800 XP)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**: Bella Sunbane ([Night Hag](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/night-hag.md)) (1800 XP)

- *Offalia drops the berries. Her hands are already longer than they were.*, in [The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md): [Night Hag](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/night-hag.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**, when level ≥ 6: Offalia Wormwiggle ([Night Hag](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/night-hag.md)) (1800 XP)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**: Offalia Wormwiggle ([Night Hag](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/night-hag.md)) (1800 XP)

- *Granny Ash comes across the lane with her dogs at her heels, and in the hag garden behind her the blights…*, in [The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md): [Granny Ash](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/granny-ash.md), [Dire Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.md), [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md), [Tree Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tree-blight.md), [Vine Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vine-blight.md). Scales with your level. Part of [The Fourth Sister](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-fourth-sister.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**, when level ≥ 8: [Granny Ash](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/granny-ash.md), 3 × Granny's Dog ([Dire Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.md)), 6 × [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md), The Hag Garden's Elm ([Tree Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/tree-blight.md)) (7700 XP)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**, when level ≥ 7: [Granny Ash](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/granny-ash.md), 3 × Granny's Dog ([Dire Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.md)), 4 × [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md), 2 × [Vine Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vine-blight.md) (4900 XP)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**, when level ≥ 6: [Granny Ash](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/granny-ash.md), 3 × Granny's Dog ([Dire Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.md)), 4 × [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md) (4700 XP)
> - **[The Miller's Lane](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-millers-lane.md)**: [Granny Ash](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/granny-ash.md), Granny's Dog ([Dire Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.md)), 3 × [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md) (4250 XP)

## Quests and lore

- [The Fourth Sister](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-fourth-sister.md): Once Morgantha is dead, a girl sells plain pastries on the miller's lane below Old Bonegrinder, and says her Granny is coming for her…