# Death House

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

![castle glimpse](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/cutscenes/castle-glimpse.webp)

Built for a party of about level 2: random treasure here is rolled for that level.

## Places

- [Death House, Attic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-attic.md): Low beams and dust: two spare bedrooms, a storage room where a trunk holds what's left of the nursemaid and a nook in the corner hides the stair down inside the walls, and the padlocked children's room where Rose and Thorn's ghosts wait beside their dollhouse.
- [Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-upper-level.md): Below the house, cut into the rock: the Durst family crypts, the cult's quarters around an old well, a dining hall and larder, a passage strewn with bones where the cult's dead still wait, a shrine to the lord in the castle, and Gustav and Elisabeth Durst, still keeping house behind a door that isn't one. Stairs lead further down toward the chanting.
- [Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-dungeon-lower-level.md): The cult's heart: a reliquary of strange relics at the foot of the stairs, an old prison, a flooded passage to a rusted portcullis and the winch that raises it, and the ritual chamber where the cult's shades chant around the altar and Lorghoth the Decayer sleeps in a mound of refuse.
- [Death House, Ground Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-ground-floor.md): A handsome townhouse kept as if its family stepped out a minute ago: entrance, main hall with the grand staircase, the Den of Wolves, kitchen and pantry, dining room. Quiet on the way in; it turns on the party after a refusal at the altar, bricking the front door and leaving only the dining room window.
- [Death House, Third Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.md): The family's private floor around the balcony: the master suite and bathroom, a storage room with a broom that doesn't like being touched, the nursemaid's suite and the nursery where her specter waits for a baby who is never coming back. The stair to the attic is hidden: behind the balcony's carved paneling, guarded by a suit of armor, or behind the nursemaid's mirror.
- [Death House, Upper Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-upper-floor.md): The second storey: the upper hall with its hearth, the family portrait and two suits of wolf-helmed armor, a library with a secret study behind a bookcase (Strahd's letter, the family deeds), the servants' room and a conservatory with a harpsichord that remembers a lullaby.

## Quests

- [Death House](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/death-house.md) (main)
- [Rest for Rose and Thorn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/rest-for-rose-and-thorn.md)

## People

[Elisabeth Durst](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/elisabeth-durst.md), [Gustav Durst](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/gustav-durst.md), [Lorghoth the Decayer](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/lorghoth-the-decayer.md), [Rose](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/rose.md), [The Nursemaid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/the-nursemaid.md), [The Shades](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/the-shades.md), [Thorn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/thorn.md)