Editing Books of S (section)

==Book #4: The Book of Shadows==
===Ravenloft Content===
'''Even More Fun & Games:'''
A follow-up to the article from Book of Sorrows, adding details on yet more common games in the lands amongst the mists; Swords (card game), Wolf Cubs, Caltrops (dice game), dart games in general, Head to Heel (darts), Crosses and Rings (Darts) and Ter Quat Ter (darts).

'''Terrible Transformations:'''
Twenty fully complete Terror Tracks submitted by Ravenloft fans for easy use on NPCs or PCs.

'''Fear and Loathing in Third Edition:'''
Unofficial rules for using Fear, Horror and Madness checks under 3e rules - this article was written when the 3e core rules were released, but before Ravenloft D20 

'''The Tale of the Lady of the Lake:'''
Biography on a demilord in Darkon, a fallen and malicious fae lake spirit who is bound to Castle Island.

'''Father Guran:'''
A [[Dragonlance|Krynnish]] [[heucuva]] once devoted to [[Morgion]], god of disease and decay, who forsake his former patron after he was uncovered and turned to worship of [[Chemosh]], god of undeath, for salvation from Morgion's wrath. 

'''Eduard Duvoir:'''
A Falkovnian tailor who offered would-be refugees a way out of Falkovnia, only to rob and murder them, cursed by one of his victims into a maledictive wererat.

'''Dr. Henry Wollcote:'''
A somewhat mad doctor who is determined to master medicine to the point of literally conquering death. This article is written under third edition rules and includes a mystical disease called "The Rot".

'''Umbran, the Shadow Lich:'''
A former wine merchant turned dark wizard, Marcus Shadowmehr became a unique undead when he sought to save himself from the oblivion of the Shadow Virus by completing the ritual of lichdom.

'''Sir William Canifax:'''
A former adventuring wizard who retired when he accidentally failed a powers check, caused by his desperately animating the corpses of his slain companions to help fight off a werewolf that had killed them. This article is written under third edition rules.

'''The Interpretation of Dreams:'''
A fluff-heavy article discussing four individuals who have all been victimized by a member of the dread Nightmare Courts, each followed by a sidebar that gives game stats and suggestions on how to include them in your campaign.

'''The Red Wolf:'''
Irvyne Wolfe once sought to become a paladin in service to Elena Faith-hold, ruler of his homeland of Nidala. After learning firsthand that the stories of her blind cruelty and malice were true, he dedicated himself to leading "the Pack", a rebellion against the fallen paladin.

'''The Society of Huntsmen:'''
Details on a secret society of bounty hunters, trackers and avengers who roam the core, seeking the destruction of the creatures of darkness.

'''The Order of Twilight:'''
Details on a secret order founded by the Nightmare Man, Darklord of the Nightmare Lands, to gather information on dreams and nightmares, and to seek a possible way that the Nightmare Man might escape his imprisonment.

'''The New Guys in Vallaki:'''
Profiles under the third edition ruleset for two more new members of the failed Kargatane of the Vallaki cell; Wyan Twitchell, a foul-tempered, disdainful pathological liar of a human conjurer, and Marcel Vendark, a Tepesti-born wizard of incredibly violent temperament who typically wears an iron mask to make himself look more frightful.

'''Tsuu-Y-Teke:'''
A Central American themed domain, a parched wasteland that suffers under a month-long day that protects it from the wrath of the giant vulture mummy who serves as its darklord.

'''Vultharesk:'''
A domain of fearful puritans seeking to avoid the disapproval of the ever-watching, impossible to satisfy moral guardian known as the Mirror Man, who dwells in the lifeless reflection of the domain.

'''Mictlan:'''
A South American themed domain, where a waning army of cursed immortal conquistadors struggles in vain against the blood-soaked brutality of the theocratic natives.

'''New Monsters for Nosos:'''
Details on the Garbage Golem and Garbage Elemental of Nosos.

'''Owlmay:'''
A Ravenloftian analogue to the [[Swanmay]], warrior-women who dedicate themselves to protecting nature and use magical tokens to assume the form of owls.

'''Children of the Nightless Land:'''
An assortment of monsters native to the domain of Tsuu-Y-Teke. These creatures are in third edition ruleset, despite the residents of the domain being statted under 2nd edition ruleset. This article covers the Achunga (malevolent humanoids who dwell underground), Anhanga (incorporeal shapeshifters), Caypór (fiery goblin-like fae), Curupira (malevolent shapeshifting tortoises), Jaracacas (vicious snakes with a flesh-withering gaze), Lobishomen (blood-drinking, incorporeal fiery undead), Macachera (fae spirits of disease and misfortune), Marét (fallen familial guardian spirits), Saci (tiny goblin-like fae), Tupan (thunderstorm spirits), Werejaguarundi and Azemen (a strain of vampires immune to sunlight).

'''Skeleton, Hive:'''
A unique form of undead that hosts a hive of symbiotically-linked vermin inside itself.

'''Under the Hands of Hags:'''
Three unique monsters created by the hags of Tepest to bedevil their lands; the unnaturally hungry Ravenous Wolves, the animated flying hands called Pretty Pinchers, and the unnatural incorporeal undead Cauldronspawn, born from the victims of the hags’ stewpot. This article is written under Ravenloft D20 rules.

'''Wereglutton:'''
A wolverine-based lycanthrope strain.

'''Patchwork Folk:'''
A new species of intelligent golems roaming the demiplane, in the guise of man-sized animated patchwork dolls. This article is written under Ravenloft D20 rules.

'''Elemental Corruption:'''
Details on what happens when the elemental corruption aspect of the land of mists, the same force that turns ordinary elementals into Grave, Mist, Blood and Pyre elementals, is applied to elemental-kin. Contains the Mist Sylph (Sylph), Mist Servant (Aerial Servant), Crypt Gnome (Pech), Graveling (Sandling), Heat Stalker (Salamander), Pyre Wyrm (Fire Snake), Bloody Mary (Nereid) and Scarlet Stream (Water Weird).

'''Spitting Cobra:'''
A variant of the were-king cobra that has the ability to spit venom.

'''Infestation:'''
Details on two deadly swarming invertebrates; the parasitic devouring spiders and the disease-spreading plague moths.

'''Witch Ritual Tools:'''
Mechanical details on the assorted paraphernalia used by the witches of Hala in their magical rituals.

'''The Mask of Sorrowful Beauty:'''
A cursed mask that grants great beauty, but slowly drives the wearer into paranoid insanity. Also an excellent weapon for detecting/killing wererats.

'''The Vocalist:'''
A quasi-bardic prestige class for Kartakans, focusing on honing one’s voice until one can create mystical effects through song alone. Written for Ravenloft D20.

===Masque of the Red Death Content===
'''Shadows of Blue and Gray:'''
A complete adventure set in Gothic Georgia.

'''Danylo Denizovich Známia:'''
An Arayashka (snow wraith) who haunts the Valdai Hills of Gothic Russia.

'''Sir Andrew Sinclair:'''
An English nobleman whose sudden change in disposition, from snarling foul-tempered cur to gentle, generous and polite has a truly dark origin: he has sundered himself into two halves, his inner evil now manifest as a terrible beast, in hopes of finding a way to re-merge them with his good side in control. Also includes rules for the Gothic Earth equivalent of an Alchemist’s Apparatus, the famous Ravenloftian soul-merging/splitting device.

'''Dame Alice Kyteler:'''
A malevolent Irish sea hag, currently developing a secret society of women in hopes of changing Gothic Great Britain into a land where it is men who are oppressed and controlled, rather than women.

'''The Katipunan:'''
A revolution-seeking Philippine secessionist qabal operating out of Gothic Manila.

'''The Locolico:'''
Foul, disease-spreading fae gypsie-like creatures who bear a great vendetta against the Vistani, perhaps the only race that the Vistani fear in the multiverse.

'''Caracas:'''
Details on one region of the Gothic Caribbean.

'''Minnesota:'''
A brief description of the mystical horrors that lurk in Gothic Minnesota.

'''Bogotá:'''
Details on one wartorn region of Gothic South America.

'''Manila:'''
Details on a colony in the Gothic Philippines.

'''Rapa Nui:'''
Details on Easter Island’s true history and secrets in the Gothic Earth.

'''H.M.S. Erebus:'''
Details on a powerful ghost ship haunting the oceans of the Gothic Earth.

'''Wang-Chi:'''
The Doppelganger Hound, a unique species of monster originating in Gothic China that has since begun to spread to Chinatowns throughout the world.

'''Mortician:'''
A dark Tradesman kit covering a worker whose task entails examining, preparing and interring the bodies of the dead.

===Fiction===
Unlike the other books in this series, only one piece of fiction is presented, set for the Introduction and Interlude; the Masque fiction was never written before the Kargatane disbanded.

In the Ravenloft fiction, Elena Faith-hold interrogates a captured ghoul and learns of the existence of a new order of the Knights of the Circle to which she once belonged, who secretly strive to keep Ebonbane sealed away in the Phantasmal Forest. She sends an agent to infiltrate the ritual of sealing, but when he returns, having become a ghoul, she murders him.