![[GustavDurstPathfinder-v1.webp]] # Gustav Durst _Ghast | [[Durst Death Cult]] | [[Death House]]_ ## Summary Head of the family that built the [[Death House]] and led the [[Durst Death Cult]] devoted to [[Strahd von Zarovich]]. He fathered a bastard, Walter, and his children [[Rose Durst|Rose]] and [[Thorn Durst|Thorn]] died in the house. Strahd rejected him outright, naming him his "most pathetic servant." He and his wife [[Elisabeth Durst|Elisabeth]] rose as ghasts and were destroyed by the party in the cult's basement dungeon.