# Mother Ruxandra

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> [!infobox]
> ![ruxandra](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/ruxandra.webp)
> **Title:** Archdruid of Yester Hill
> **Region:** [Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/yester-hill.md)
> **Starting attitude:** hostile
> **Pronouns:** she/her
> **In a fight:** [Druid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/druid.md)

## About

The old woman who leads the druids of Yester Hill. She believes the lord in the castle and the land of Barovia are one and the same, and she tends the black tree on the hill as other women tend a grave. Gentle in manner, merciless in faith.

## Where to find them

> [!note]- At points in the story (3)
> - [The Crown of Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-crown-of-yester-hill.md), Inside the ring: when not yester hill resolved
> - [The Crown of Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-crown-of-yester-hill.md), Inside the ring: when yester hill resolved and not yester druids fate
> - [The Crown of Yester Hill](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-crown-of-yester-hill.md), Inside the ring, 19:00–06:00: when quest.the druid who came back and not ash effigy slain and yester druids fate is “spared”

## Quests

- [The Druid Who Came Back](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-druid-who-came-back.md)
- [The Son Who Didn't Fly](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-son-who-didnt-fly.md)