# The Nursemaid

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

> [!infobox]
> ![durst nursemaid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/durst-nursemaid.webp)
> **Title:** Specter of the Nursery
> **Region:** [Death House](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/death-house.md)
> **Starting attitude:** hostile
> **Pronouns:** she/her
> **In a fight:** [Specter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/specter.md)

## About

The household's nursemaid, who bore Gustav Durst a son and followed the cult when they carried the baby below. They killed her for it. Her specter guards the nursery door and asks every stranger for her child.

## Where to find them

> [!note]- At points in the story (2)
> - [Death House, Third Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.md), Nursery: when not death house nursemaid calmed and not death house nursemaid destroyed
> - [Village of Barovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/village-of-barovia.md), East road, 20:00–05:00: when quest.the nursemaids grave and quest.the nursemaids grave isn't laid and quest.the nursemaids grave isn't done

## Quests

- [The Nursemaid's Grave](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-nursemaids-grave.md)