# Under the Vaults

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

> [!infobox]
> ![loc amber deep 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-deep-1.webp)
> **Region:** [The Amber Temple](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-amber-temple.md) · level 10
> **Resting:** no
> **Light:** dark
> **Getting here:** [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md)
> **Quests:** [The Amber Debt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-amber-debt.md)

## Overview

What the Amber Temple's wardens sealed under their own vaults: a stair down through the weeping floor, the hall of sleepers in their amber, the wardens' archive and, at the bottom, the chamber of the Eye Below (The Amber Debt, docs/story/side_quests.md).

Under the vault floor the amber isn't set. It weeps out of the walls like resin from a cut pine, warm, and slow, and it smells of honey and of something that has been asleep for a very long time.

**Resting:** no Every time you shut your eyes, you feel it looking at you through them. Nobody sleeps down here.

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

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md):** Down under the vault floor

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up into the vaults | [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md) |  |
| 2 | Up into the vaults | [The Amber Temple: the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-amber-temple-the-vaults.md) |  |

## Map

![amber deep](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/amber-deep.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 deep spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-deep-spot1.webp)
*a tall mirror, turned to the wall*

![loc amber deep spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-deep-spot2.webp)
*the wardens' book*

![loc amber deep spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-amber-deep-spot3.webp)
*the broken amber block*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[The Eye Below](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/the-eye-below.md)**, The chamber of the Eye (#3): when not eye below slain

## What to find

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.

## Fights

- *Something blinks inside the nearest block of amber. Then the amber blinks back, everywhere, and the little…*, in [Under the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-the-vaults.md): [Amber Golem](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/amber-golem.md), [Dream-Gazer](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dream-gazer.md).

- *The Eye Below sinks back into the amber to its middle as the last note of the lullaby goes, and wakes too…*, in [Under the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-the-vaults.md): [The Eye Below](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/the-eye-below.md), [Dream-Gazer](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dream-gazer.md). Scales with your level. Part of [The Amber Debt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-amber-debt.md).
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[Under the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-the-vaults.md)**, when deep lullaby sung and deep mirrors turned: [The Eye Below](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/the-eye-below.md) (10000 XP; surprise: enemies)
> - **[Under the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-the-vaults.md)**, when deep lullaby sung and not deep mirrors turned: [The Eye Below](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/the-eye-below.md), [Dream-Gazer](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dream-gazer.md) (10100 XP; lair; surprise: enemies)
> - **[Under the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-the-vaults.md)**, when not deep lullaby sung and deep mirrors turned: [The Eye Below](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/the-eye-below.md) (10000 XP)
> - **[Under the Vaults](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/under-the-vaults.md)**: [The Eye Below](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/the-eye-below.md), [Dream-Gazer](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/dream-gazer.md) (10100 XP; lair)

## Quests and lore

- [The Amber Debt](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-amber-debt.md): Exethanter has an old note pinned under all the others, in his own hand: DO NOT GO BELOW THE VAULT. YOU SEALED IT. YOU DO NOT REMEMBER WHY.…