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A Raven at the Door
The wereraven Yesper Cantemir has snuck into Strahd's Castle, hoping to steal something of value. Now you must go back in and try to steal Yesper back out.
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A Raven at the Door | |
Heroic level: | 11 |
Epic level: | 31 (considered Legendary) |
Duration: | long |
Heroic XP: | ♣3,069Solo/Casual ♦5,380Normal ♥5,643Hard ♠5,908Elite |
Epic XP: | ♣17,777Solo/Casual ♦30,380Normal ♥31,133Hard ♠31,885Elite |
Takes place in: | Castle Ravenloft, Servant's Door |
Bestowed by: | Oksana Cantemir |
NPC contact: | Oksana Cantemir |
Quest acquired in: | The Land of Barovia |
Patron: | Keepers of the Feather |
Base favor: | 6 |
Free to Play: | No |
Extreme Challenge: | No |
Overview
A Raven at the Door is the 2nd quest in The Vampire Hunters story arc![]() Completing everything in a story arc often yields a nice reward.. |
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Oath of Vengeance • A Raven at the Door • Mad Tea Party • Sealed in Amber |
Objectives
- Discover the fate of Yesper the Raven
- Check the Upper Servant Quarters
- Investigate the top of the South Tower
- Speak with the Hags
- Defeat Drolga and her sister
- Search the Coven's lair
- Enter the Treasury’s magical tower near the study on level three
- Defeat the Treasury's Guardians
- Loot the Castle Treasury
- (Optional) Cull Strahd's forces — Bonus (15%): Heroic( ♣460 ♦807 ♥846 ♠886 ) Epic( ♣2,667 ♦4,557 ♥4,670 ♠4,783 )
- (Optional) Defeat the Sisters of Strahd — Bonus (30%): Heroic( ♣921 ♦1,614 ♥1,693 ♠1,772 ) Epic( ♣5,333 ♦9,114 ♥9,340 ♠9,566 )
- (Optional) Defeat Strahd’s Hate — Bonus (12%): Heroic( ♣368 ♦646 ♥677 ♠709 ) Epic( ♣2,133 ♦3,646 ♥3,736 ♠3,826 )
- (Optional) Get Yesper the Raven safely out of the dungeons — Bonus (25%): Heroic( ♣767 ♦1,345 ♥1,411 ♠1,477 ) Epic( ♣4,444 ♦7,595 ♥7,783 ♠7,971 )
- (Optional) Impress the Vistani (Basement Level: The Larders of Ill Omen) — Bonus (12%): Heroic( ♣368 ♦646 ♥677 ♠709 ) Epic( ♣2,133 ♦3,646 ♥3,736 ♠3,826 )
- (Optional) Defeat Arrigal and his gang — Bonus (8%): Heroic( ♣246 ♦430 ♥451 ♠473 ) Epic( ♣1,422 ♦2,430 ♥2,491 ♠2,551 )
Known Traps
Teleport Traps (Dungeon), Evil Pulse Trap (Chamberlain's Office), Spinning Blades (Basement)
Search & Spot DCs for Trap and Secret Door: Heroic, Epic
Disable Device DC: Heroic, Epic
Tips and Misc
You return to Castle Ravenloft. This time, your objectives are much more straightforward than in the Invitation to Dinner.
- Read journal
- Start by heading up the stairs to find the Small secret box in the Upper Servants Quarter.
- Read the journal left therein. Pay attention carefully to what you read. The options later are not easily distinguishable.
- Meet the hags
- Go to South Tower and climb to the top. (Multiple ways exist to reach South Tower)
- From the Tower take top exit to the Spires of Ravenloft (Level 4), turn right in the portrait room to the double doors at the east wall, enter, and keep going up.
- A door which was blocked (by a door) in the previous quest can now be opened, because you read the code word in the journal.
- Speak with Drolga, kill them both, read/loot the adventure pack nearby.
- As your are fighting the hags, the cauldron serves as a portal to the Plane of Fire allowing the hags to summon fire mephits; you can interact with the cauldron after the fight with the hags has commenced, and use the password 'GORAH' to close the portal (the correct password is indicated in the 4th journal entry in the Upper Servants Quarter)
- Take Silver Key if you're interested in doing the Free Yesper optional.
- Loot the treasury
- Note: This concludes the quest. If you are working for break/trap/secret door bonuses, do this last.
- Return to South Tower. Spires of Ravenloft was level 4, you need to go down one floor to level 3.
- Head for the study, secret door in the fire place, and the treasury tower.
- Interact with the door to use potion of gaseous form from hag's pack to enter the treasury.
- Kill defenders and loot.
- Free Yesper optional (second chest with named loot)
- Get silver key from hags.
- Go to the Dungeons (for example at the bottom of South Stairs).
- Watch out for teleport traps. Hug left wall to avoid them.
- Find Yesper in south prison in the SE corner (left from South Stairs), kill hag.
- NOTE - opening the north prison with the key makes this optional not completable.
- Sisters of Strahd optional
Sisters of Strahd (7 total) are in:
- Top of South Tower (Drolga and her sister) (2)
- Dungeons, south prison (guarding Yesper) (1)
- Dining Hall (1)
- Level 2, NW chamber (marked "South Guard Tower" on map) (1)
- Level 3, Bath Chamber (2)
- Tips
- There are many secret doors in this quest. Some short cuts and others necessary. The one in the Servant's Quarters has a high DC but, it is a short cut.
Bonus XP
- Devious bonus: 39 or fewer monsters killed +7% Bonus.( ♣215 ♦377 ♥395 ♠414 )
- Tamper bonus: 7 or more traps disarmed +10% Bonus.( ♣307 ♦538 ♥564 ♠591 )
- Neutralization bonus: 9 or more traps disarmed +20% Bonus.( ♣614 ♦1,076 ♥1,129 ♠1,182 )
- Observance bonus: 7 or more secret doors discovered +8% Bonus.( ♣246 ♦430 ♥451 ♠473 )
- Perception bonus: 9 or more secret doors discovered +10% Bonus.( ♣307 ♦538 ♥564 ♠591 )
- Vigilant Sight bonus: 11 or more secret doors discovered +15% Bonus.( ♣460 ♦807 ♥846 ♠886 )
- Mischief bonus: >23 or more breakables smashed +8% Bonus.( ♣246 ♦430 ♥451 ♠473 )
Loot
- Chests: 5
- 1 for defeating Crina, guarding Yesper the Raven in SE cell of dungeon (has named loot)
- 1 for defeating Raluca and Andreea
- 1 in Castle Treasury (has named loot)
- 1 in Chamberlain's Office (trapped and locked)
- 1 for defeating Elisabeta (in the South Guard Tower on the second level)
- Collectables: See list in An Invitation to Dinner
- NPC rewards:
Named Chest Drop
Monsters
Name(picture) | CR | Type | Race |
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Agrapina (view) | ♦13Normal ♥15Hard ♠16Elite ●♦35Epic Normal | Evil Outsider | Hag |
Andreea (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard | Evil Outsider | Hag |
Animated Arms (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♣32Epic Casual ●♦32Epic Normal ●♥36Epic Hard | Construct | Animated Object |
Arrigal (view) | ♥15Hard ●♦34Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Barovian Fire Mephit (view) | ♥13Hard ●♦32Epic Normal | Fire Outsider | Mephit |
Barovian Gargoyle (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Monstrous Humanoid | Gargoyle |
Barovian Witch (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Humanoid | Hag |
Benighted Ghast (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Undead | Ghoul |
Benighted Ghoul (view) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Undead | Ghoul |
Benighted Warrior (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal | Undead | Ghoul |
Benighted Wizard (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Undead | Missing! |
Castle Sentinel (view) | ♦13Normal ♥15Hard ♠18Elite ●♦35Epic Normal ●♥38Epic Hard | Construct | Golem |
Crawling Claw (view) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♣31Epic Casual ●♦31Epic Normal | Undead | Zombie |
Crina (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite | Evil Outsider | Hag |
Drolga (view) | ♦13Normal ♥15Hard ♠18Elite ●♦35Epic Normal | Evil Outsider | Hag |
Elisabeta (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠16Elite ●♦34Epic Normal | Evil Outsider | Hag |
Emil Toranescu (NoPic) | ♥16Hard | Monstrous Humanoid | Werewolf |
Felix Blackarrow (NoPic) | ♦14Normal ♥16Hard | Undead | Skeleton |
Fire Mephit Warrior (view) | ♠14Elite | Fire Outsider | Mephit |
Flesh Golem (Barovia) (NoPic) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard | Construct | Golem |
Forsaken Wraith (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ●♦33Epic Normal ●♥37Epic Hard | Undead | Wraith |
Grim Shadow (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Undead | Shadow |
Raluca (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ●♦34Epic Normal | Evil Outsider | Hag |
Restless Soul (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠15Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Undead | Spectre |
Shadow of Hate (view) | ♦13Normal ♥16Hard ♠19Elite ●♦35Epic Normal ●♥39Epic Hard | Evil Outsider | Demon |
Strahd Zombie (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♣32Epic Casual ●♦32Epic Normal ●♥36Epic Hard | Undead | Zombie |
Strahd's Hate (view) | ♦13Normal ♠18Elite ●♦35Epic Normal ●♥39Epic Hard ●♠63Epic Elite | Elemental | Air Elemental |
Tormented Souls (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Undead | Spectre |
Undead Arcanist (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ♠17Elite ●♦32Epic Normal | Undead | Skeleton |
Undead Archer (view) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠17Elite ●♦31Epic Normal ●♥35Epic Hard | Undead | Skeleton |
Undead Conscript (view) | ♦10Normal ♥12Hard ♠15Elite ●♦31Epic Normal ●♥35Epic Hard | Undead | Skeleton |
Vampire Spawn Archer (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal ●♥36Epic Hard ●♠?Epic Elite | Undead | Vampire |
Vampire Spawn Mage (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal ●♥36Epic Hard ●♠?Epic Elite | Undead | Vampire |
Vampire Spawn Rogue (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal ●♥36Epic Hard ●♠?Epic Elite | Undead | Vampire |
Vampire Spawn Warrior (NoPic) | ♠16Elite ●♦32Epic Normal ●♥36Epic Hard ●♠?Epic Elite | Undead | Vampire |
Vasilica (view) | ♦12Normal ♥14Hard ●♦34Epic Normal | Evil Outsider | Hag |
Vistani Bandit (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ●♦31Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
Vistani Scout (view) | ♦11Normal ♥13Hard ●♦31Epic Normal | Humanoid | Human |
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