Editing Undead Sea Scrolls (section)

==USS 2001==
'''Introduction:''' A fiction article depicting the Undead Sea Scrolls being received by a meeting of the Fraternity of Shadows. Hints of Van Rijn’s future treachery are also provided.

'''Faiths of the Mists:''' Examining in greater details the various faiths, major and minor, stated as existing in the Demiplane of Dread, with support for playing priests of them under both AD&D and D20 rulesets.

'''Lost Faiths of the Mists:''' Examining (and providing D20 domains for) assorted faiths that Ravenloft canon establishes as having once existed in the Demiplane, but now being extinct.

'''Fearless:''' A D20 item, a serum created by amoral alchemists intending to create a literal antidote to fear. It works, but there are serious (and fatal!) side-effects.

'''The Asylum:''' Details on the physical structure, history and notable denizens of a mental health institute somewhere in the Demiplane. Written under AD&D rules.

'''Lady Gowena:''' A Mordentish noblewoman who seeks to be an adventurer, but who is trapped by marriage to an abusive father. Written under D20 rules.

'''The Blue Lady:''' A Nidalian child who was murdered by her hero, the darklord Elena Faithhold, only for the Dark Powers to spare her life. When her adopted family (secretly bandits) were slain by an adventuring party led by a paladin, she became a murderous warrior, a willing servitor of the darklord Ivan Boritsi and driven to kill all paladins she encounters. Written under D20 rules.

'''Arlington Farm:''' An island of terror in the form of a cursed farm, haunted by its darklord; a mad farmer who murdered countless people, including his family, to use their remains to build scarecrows that would supposedly make his farm prosper. Instead, the angry monsters eventually murdered him and made him into a half-flesh, half-straw monster like them. Written under AD&D rules.

'''The Eternal Torture:''' An island of terror in the form of a ghost ship crewed by ghasts under the command of a ghoul lord. Written under AD&D rules.

'''Gustavstan:''' A domain ruled by two darklords, a mad baron and the ghost of his father, whose tale of corruption reads like Shakespear’s Hamlet. Written under AD&D rules.

'''Hibernate:''' An island-based domain secretly ruled by a vampire who operates the domain’s most famous brothel. Written under D20 rules.

'''Miseria:''' A miserable domain infested with incorporeal undead, secretly controlled by its barmaid, a diviner who once used her powers to live a life of abject luxury even as she secretly steered the war ruining her homeland and its neighbor for her own amusement. Written under AD&D rules.

'''Nueva Aragona:''' A cluster of domains linked under the common theme of a post-conquistadors South America. Its two domains are Resistencia, ruled by the ghost of Don Santiago de Quijada y Alvarez, and Maconda, ruled by a maledictive were-anaconda named Martin Jose Maconda. Written under AD&D rules.

'''Anna:''' A unique flesh golem, created by a grief-stricken father in an attempt to resurrect his little girl after she fell to her death. Unwittingly using werefox blood in her creation, he gave her the ability to shapeshift between human and golem forms.

'''Bird of Death:''' An AD&D horror in the form of an ethereal spirit-bird that attempts to warn humans of their impending deaths, failing due to its alien mentality.

'''Celtic Banshee:''' An incorporeal spirit born from a woman (or child) who died in childbirth, now drawn to watch others who seem destined to die as they did. Written for AD&D rules.

'''The [[Chanak]]:''' This follow-up to the Book of Sacrifices [[Aswang]] article covers a new D20 horror, undead children created by the predations of [[aswang]]s.

'''The Headless Mule:''' A D20 horror based on a Brazilian mythological beast, a shapechanging woman forced to adopt the form of a headless mule that spews ghostly blue fire from its neck-stump

'''Dire Omens:''' A D20 adventure in which the party is caught up in the machinations of a lich to steal spellbooks and other occult tomes with the aid of undead lackies.

'''Superstitions, or...?:''' A fluff article focusing on superstitions from various domains.