Editing Undead Sea Scrolls (section)

==USS 2002==
'''Fallen Children of Nature:''' A prestige class to represent corrupt druids and rangers, though technically open to any soul with wilderness skills willing to embrace the inherent taint of the Demiplane.

'''Scholars of Darkness:''' A fluff article detailing the in-universe Fraternity of Shadows, covering the organization’s history, organization, beliefs, aims and understanding of the world they live in. Comes with a prestige class to represent ranking members of the Fraternity.

'''Some Members Of The Fraternity Of Shadows:''' Details on five specific high-ranking members of the Fraternity; Dr. Dhurban Ananda (a Sri Rajian who has almost completed transposition with a rakshasa), Viktor Hazan (a professor from the Richemulot university), Gabrek Krakul (a Vorostokovian escapee who yearns to slay the domain’s darklord), Kristoff Lutemmi (scion of a cursed family loyal to the Fraternity for freeing him), and Erik van Rijn (a Gothic Earther whose yearning to achieve immortality will lead him to betray the Fraternity).

'''New Rules for the Redeemed:''' Building on the “evil being turned repentant” Redeemed kit from Champions of the Mists, this presents various ways of doing so in D20.

'''Peoples to Meet in the Land of Mists:''' The submissions to a “design a (nonstatted) NPC for Ravenloft” contest held on the SotK’s message board.

'''Road Kills:''' Assorted random encounters to spice up travelling the roads of the demiplane.

'''Psionics in Ravenloft:''' A homebrewed guide to how to use psionic rules and characters in Ravenloft D20, containing a more AD&D-inspired illithid and a Cerebremorphing template as a bonus.

'''Shock, Spark and Roar:''' An assortment of lightning and/or thunder-themed spells to spice up arcane and divine spellcasters’ lists.

'''The Albino:''' A maledictive were-winter wolf who haunts Vebrek.

'''Brotherhood of Contemplative Power:''' Details on a monastery secretly devoted to psionics tucked away in Barovia.

'''The Children of Wrath.:''' Details on a secret society in Sithicus, dedicated to slaying the tyrannical dwarven werebadger Azrael.

'''The Clockworkman And His Creator:''' Clyde Banoliér, a once-gifted clockworker driven to madness by his greatest creation; Marcel, the clockwork golem he made to be his little brother.

'''Have a Few Good Cats:''' Details on a most unusual band of benevolent non-humans; three female paka and a male trueborn werepanther, all of whom have forsaken the usual inhumanity of their breed. Also a villainous female paka with connections to the group.

'''Keith de Lalune:''' A once-benevolent Ezran anchorite who has fallen under the sway of the Kargatane.

'''Mary LeSat:''' A half-elven dhampir who uses her skills to defend vampires from mortal hunters.

'''Of Secret Skies and Troubled Lands:''' The history, organization and goals of the Celestines, a benevolent order of astrologers, and the Celestine prestige class.

'''Red Eye:''' A tie-in to the Book of Sacrifices’ Upir Lichy article, detailing Markov Niet, aka Red Eye, progenitor of that terrible strain of icy vampire-kin. Includes both AD&D and D20 profiles for Red Eye.

'''Traumatized Spirits:''' An article written from an in-universe perspective detailing six unique geists.

'''Yago Trevesc:''' The vengeful ghost of a bitter, hateful man.

'''Carnival: Boss Canvas Man:''' Several new members for the Carnival of Isolde; Knick Knack the Living Doll (ventriloquist puppet brought to life by the Twisting), Gon “The Rock” Stonesplitter (once-petrified dwarf who retains an indestructible stone skin and enhanced strength), The Pistoleer (a half-vistani member of the Skurra), and Najib al-Auni bin Mutamin (a half-elven corsair from Al Qadim who has a charming voice).

'''Cyprianus:''' A wandering bard forced to flee when the price for magical aid to enhance his lying skill finally came back to bite him.

'''Michel LePerdu:''' A former bandit driven to madness when he accidentally killed his own father, a returning soldier, during one of his raids.

'''The Odd Couple:''' A pair of obsessed lovers who are cursed to cause disaster and mayhem whenever they get too close to each other. One doesn’t know the full details, the other refuses to believe curses are real.

'''The Pied Piper:''' A boogeyman born from the soul of a man from Gothic Earth, driven by alien hungers to feast on children and commanding the allegiance of rats.

'''The Trickster:''' A gnomish con artist who uses his talents as an illusionist to fake “hauntings” for money.

'''The Ebon Lyre:''' A powerful magical musical instrument that contains the last remaining essence of a demon, driving it to try and corrupt its bearers.

'''Guillotine:''' A cursed guillotine damned when it was used to execute an innocent man. Whoever uses it to kill an innocent will be driven to madness. The cursed executioner who inadvertently created it is statted under both AD&D and D20 rules.

'''Karss:''' An island of terror dominated by a prison, inadvertently created by a mad warden of the Harmonium from Planescape.

'''Tsuu-Y-Teke:''' A D20 update to the characters and monsters of the domain first featured in the Book of Shadows.

'''Callista:''' A Venice-like domain ruled by a cursed half-Vistani from Nova Vassa, developed from his initial appearance in Children of the Night: Ghosts.

'''Hibernate:''' An update to the domain from the USS 2001.

'''The Hospice of Silver Light:''' A fluff article written from an in-verse perspective detailing one of the hospices run by the Church of Hala. Its residents are statted under AD&D rules.

'''Immerabt:''' A plague-stricken domain whose darklord refuses to allow others to succumb to death, even if that is what they’d prefer.

'''Incitatus:''' A wandering island of terror in the form of a ruined city, the legacy of its darklord’s failed attempt to protect it.

'''The Lost Wizard’s Tower:''' An island of terror that hosts but one soul; a fallen and corrupted wizard’s familiar.

'''The Northlands:''' A Scandinavian-themed domain ruled by a tyrannical jarl who hates his status, but sees no other way to defend his rule.

'''Olympus:''' A Greek-themed domain where a fallen hero is the darklord and unique monsters based on classical myth horrors rule in the guise of gods-on-earth.

'''Stonewall:''' A domain comprised of a puritan settlement from Gothic Earth, drawn to the demiplane by one sin-obsessed, bitter, puritanical harpy of a woman, who has since become a literal harpy.

'''Vulnara:''' A domain of bitter, sour-tempered, technology-preferring gnomes ruled by a sense-draining gnomic vampire.

'''Yatehcaa:''' An Amerindian themed domain that serves as home to a cursed demigod, Coyote, who seeks his missing cloak of stars and refuses to admit his guilt in the misdeeds that saw him banished here.

'''[[Adohi]]:''' A new form of evil plant monster, akin to corrupt treants. Contains D20 and AD&D stats.

'''Breeds of the [[Aswang]]:''' Another expansion to the [[Aswang]] article from the Book of Sacrifices, adding variants of the breed to the demiplane; the Allawig and the Padara. It also features a terror track for sinners who are transformed into aswang by the Dark Powers.

'''[[Cozseca]]:''' A magical hyena that can mimic voices and absorb memories by eating brains.

'''Heroic Birds of Prey:''' A D20 adaptation of the Owlmay from the Book of Shadows and the Werehawk, a benevolent avian shapeshifter intended for the Books of S_ before their cancellation.

'''[[Upir Lichy]] - Third Edition:''' A d20 update to the article from the Book of Shadows, with added notes on how they interact with their canonical analogues, the Vyrkolaka, in Vorostokov. Also features a Terror Track of the Upir Lichy.

'''The Van Richten Guide to the Lesser Undead:''' A fan-attempt at covering the role of lesser undead, such as skeletons, zombies and ghouls, in the manner of a Van Richten’s Guide. Made obsolete when the official Van Richten’s Guide to the Walking Dead was released.

'''All Things Small And Helpful:''' Assorted fey and undead creatures taken from Scandinavian folklore, mostly intended for use with the Northlands domain. They consist of the Draug (undead drowned fisherman), Deildeghast (ghost of a man who moved a boundary stone), Oskorei (swarm of ghosts who were pettily wicked in life, drunkards and vagabonds and the like), Fossegrim (waterfall-dwelling river fae), Kvernknurr (small mill-dwelling fae with enormous mouths), and Tunkall (farm-assisting fae).

'''[[Face Thief]]:''' A malevolent incorporeal undead that steals the faces of mortals, allowing it to assume their form and cursing them to become its undead slaves.

'''[[Morav]]:''' A unique undead created from the remains of a dinosaur or dire reptile.

'''The Demon Still Roams:''' A poem about a person scarred by paternal abuse.

'''A Statue in the Courtyard:''' A poem about the death by old age of a once great hero.

'''Azalin’s New Crowns:''' A gag article depicting comedic sketches of Azalin seeking replacement crowns.

'''Excerpts From The Register:''' Hand-drawn art and fluff text referencing unique and terrible spirits and other monsters found in the demiplane.

'''Hollow:''' A fiction article, wherein a warrior finds himself on the worse end of a deal with a wizard.

'''Monsters You Will Never See In The USS...:''' 
A gag article listing monsters that would have been too absurd even for AD&D.

'''Huaca de la Luna:''' Three European undead monsters now stalking the Gothic Andes.

'''Lead into Gold:''' The practice of alchemy on the Gothic Earth, with rules for achieving feats like elixirs of youth. 

'''Pharaoh Akhenaton:''' A powerful mummy created from the infamous monotheistic pharaoh of the Gothic Earth. However, on Gothic Earth, he was a benevolent figure who sought to lead his people away from the clutches of the Red Death, a fight he continues in undeath as patron of the qabal known as the Synod of the Crimson Disk.

'''The Snow Mother:''' A once benevolent fae of the Gothic Andes, unwittingly corrupted into a monster by her own misguided worshippers.

'''The Whaetelys:''' A twisted family of black magicians and devil-worshippers lurking in the remote regions of Gothic America, inspired by Lovecraft’s famous New England horrors.