# Tser Falls

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc tser falls 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-tser-falls-1.webp)
> **Region:** [The Old Svalich Road](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-old-svalich-road.md) · level 4
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dim, outdoors
> **Getting here:** the travel map (Tser Falls)
> **Quests:** [Called by Name](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/called-by-name.md)

## Overview

Where the River Ivlis throws itself off a cliff in a long white fall. A shelf of rock juts over the drop; Barovians leave tokens there for the drowned and the fallen.

A footpath climbs north through the pines to the lip of a gorge. The river goes over the edge in one long white rope of water, and the roar fills everything.

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

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **The travel map:** Tser Falls, in Barovia. It shows once visited svalich crossroads.

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The path back down to the road | the travel map |  |

## Map

![tser falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/tser-falls.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 tser falls spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-tser-falls-spot1.webp)
*a rain-soaked pack, a hollow in the fallen trunk*

![loc tser falls spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-tser-falls-spot2.webp)
*the overlook*

![loc tser falls spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-tser-falls-spot3.webp)
*a cairn of names, a necklace among the names on the cairn*

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | a rain-soaked pack | [Rope](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#rope), [Torch](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#torch) ×2, [Potion of Healing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#potion-of-healing), 6 gp | open it |
| 5 | a token that hums (hidden) | [Pearl of Power](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#pearl-of-power) | Search: Perception DC 13 |
| 6 | a necklace among the names on the cairn (hidden) | [Necklace of Adaptation](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#necklace-of-adaptation) | Search: Perception DC 13 |
| 8 | a satchel snagged high in the pine (hidden) | [Goggles of Night](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#goggles-of-night) | Search: Perception DC 14 |
| 9 | a hollow in the fallen trunk (hidden) | [Bag of Tricks (Rust)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#bag-of-tricks-rust) | Search: Investigation DC 12 |
| 10 | an axe left in a woodcutter's stump (hidden) | [+1 Handaxe](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#weapon-1) | Search: Perception DC 12 |

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | a stone heaped with tokens | Arcana 13 | Sense the token that hums | finds Pearl of Power |
| 4 | a cairn of names | Religion 12 | Speak the names on the cairn | finds Necklace of Adaptation |
| 7 | a claw-marked pine | Athletics 13 | Climb the claw-marked pine | finds Goggles of Night; on a failure: 1d6 bludgeoning damage |

## Fights

- *Something has been sitting at the edge of the trees, listening to the water with you. It stands up on two…*, in [Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md): [Werewolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/werewolf.md), [Dire Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dire-wolf.md), [Wolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/wolf.md).

- *The lights come up out of the gorge like lanterns climbing a stair, and every one of them is still talking in…*, in [Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md): [Will-o'-Wisp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/will-o-wisp.md). Scales with your level. Part of [Called by Name](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/called-by-name.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md)**, when wisps lured and level ≥ 5: 5 × [Will-o'-Wisp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/will-o-wisp.md) (2250 XP; surprise: party)
> - **[Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md)**, when not wisps lured and level ≥ 5: 5 × [Will-o'-Wisp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/will-o-wisp.md) (2250 XP)
> - **[Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md)**, when wisps lured and level ≥ 4: 4 × [Will-o'-Wisp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/will-o-wisp.md) (1800 XP; surprise: party)
> - **[Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md)**, when not wisps lured and level ≥ 4: 4 × [Will-o'-Wisp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/will-o-wisp.md) (1800 XP)
> - **[Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md)**, when wisps lured: 3 × [Will-o'-Wisp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/will-o-wisp.md) (1350 XP; surprise: party)
> - **[Tser Falls](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/tser-falls.md)**, when not wisps lured: 3 × [Will-o'-Wisp](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/will-o-wisp.md) (1350 XP)

## Quests and lore

- [Called by Name](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/called-by-name.md): Big Tobar's son went into the trees after his dead mother's voice. Every night since, a voice from the gorge under Tser Falls has called…