# Gustav Durst

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> [!infobox]
> ![gustav durst](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/gustav-durst.webp)
> **Title:** Master of the House
> **Region:** [Death House](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/death-house.md)
> **Starting attitude:** hostile
> **Pronouns:** he/him
> **In a fight:** [Ghast](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/ghast.md)

## About

The father: a merchant who founded a cult to win Strahd's favor, fathered a child on the nursemaid, and gave that child to the altar. Now a ghast, still playing host at his own supper table.

## Where to find them

> [!note]- At points in the story (1)
> - [Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-upper-level.md), The Cult Leaders' Den: when not death house dursts destroyed