The Glacial Tomb is a location in Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. It is the later of two linked zones existing in a space separate from Gebel's castle that make up the game's final areas, the earlier being the Den of Behemoths. It is some kind of icy cavern that presumably acts as some kind of sepulcher, if its name is taken at face value. It is the final area before the game's good ending, "Dethroned".
Once you have reached the Den of Behemoths near the end of the game, it should be a straightforward affair to progress through the zone, fight the Valefar boss, and proceed down into the Glacial Tomb zone. Early on, you will find the sole warp room that represents both it and the Den of Behemoths. The somewhat tightly winding path brings you to the zone's southeast corner, where you will fight the Gremory boss and win the Dimension Shift shard. This lets you go west past a set of closed-off gaps and holes to the zone's southwest corner, where you will fight the game's two finalbosses. Defeating them will finish the game.
Dimension Shift allows access into the spaces underneath the arched bridges at the bottom of the Oriental Sorcery Lab, letting you complete the Benjamin side quest. It also allows you to warp under the "bridge" at the bottom of the right "box" just above the Valac boss area in Towers of Twin Dragons, letting you get the Valkyrie Sword.
One treasure found in the Glacial Tomb, Warhorse's Key, unlocks the optional boss room in the southwest region of Garden of Silence that lets you fight the Revenant.
Once you have explored at least 99% of the game map, a final tome, the Tome of Conquest, is added to Orlok Dracule's menu at Livre Ex Machina. If you borrow this book but take it "out of the castle" by going to the Glacial Tomb/Den of Behemoths, then Orlok will be waiting for you in an early hallway in the Glacial Tomb and will force you into a "superboss" battle with him. If you win, he will return to Livre Ex Machina and let you borrow all of the books in his collection at once.
Zangetsu, Bloodless and Aurora all come to the Glacial Tomb through the Den of Behemoths near the end of the game. The area contains no particular items for any of them, so it is merely a maze leading to the final bosses. None of them receive any special ability for defeating Gremory, so portals appear instead after her defeat that they can pass through the corridor that Miriam would use the Dimension Shift in.
Defeating Dominique Baldwin and Bael ends the game for Bloodless and Aurora, but Zangetsu is instead teleported back to the Hall of Termination, where he ultimately faces a corrupted Miriam.
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Lake Cocytus by Gustave Doré.
The Glacial Tomb's purpose in the main storyline and the fact that it is a subterranean frozen labyrinth is a heavy allusion to Treachery, the ninth and final circle of Hell in the narrative poem, Divine Comedy. It is at Lake Cocytus where sinners who betrayed their loved ones in life and lack warmth in their hearts are condemned to be frozen for all eternity. Given that Miriam was backstabbed by a nun she presumed was a close ally in this cavern, this plot twist reinforces this reference to the first part of Dante's epic poem.
