Editing Quoth the Raven (section)

==Issue #21==
This issue has a theme of "dark desires". It is the first issue to feature material for 5th edition D&D.

'''The Criminal Rings of Nova Vaasa:''' A detailed examination of the criminal underworld of the domain of Nova Vaasa, including punishments, the criminal codes of tattoos, and a reinvention of Malken.

'''To Granny's House:''' Details of Ressetheidt, a village in Lamordia that has made a Faustian pact with the hag known locally as Granny Knochen, who trades them a magical tincture that determines the drinker's true love in exchange for being allowed to eat the village's dead. 

'''Nora Metzenger:''' Details on a female half-elven mercenary and revolutionary who works with the resistance in Falkovnia.

'''The Missing Piece:''' Covers the crazed clockwork engineer Gustav Malvoni and his terrible creation, Vir Stannum, the Clockwork Man, a powerful dread golem.

'''Song of the Cypress:''' A fiction piece in which a noblewoman's servant recalls the fall of the house she serves, devastated by plague and with the survivors called to join the terrible savages known as the Moor Men.

'''Scalies of the Sea of Sorrows:''' An excerpt/preview for the next Van Richten Files netbook; as that netbook will cover Sea Creatures, to tie into the Survey of the Sea of Sorrows Gazetteer, this article covers Reavers.

'''Sennentuntschi:''' A strange female-appearing straw golem derived from a myth of the Swiss Alps. Written in Ravenloft AD&D rules.

'''Ol' Reaper:''' When Wilfred Godefroy murdered his wife and daughter, he slew his own beloved horse as a scapegoat for his crimes. But Ol' Reaper followed his treacherous master into undeath, a ghostly stallion that now seeks to punish all who have escaped crimes by letting others take the blame, particularly his former master.

'''The Eternal Smith:''' A fiction piece in which a smith unwittingly damns a village that turned on him.

'''Dark Shadows:''' New rules for 5e D&D to reflect characters who have embraced the gothic trait of characters laboring under the crushing weight of a doom-heralding shadow. The specific Shadows covered by this article are Addict, Bitten, Cat's Eyes, Cold One, Cursed, Gravesight, Haunted, Hollow, Lunatic, Possessed, Redheaded, Redeemed, Reincarnated, Second Sight and Shadow Touched.

'''Sour Ground:''' Alternate rules to make resurrection more punishing, consisting of a new rule about resurrection caps (lower of Constitution or PC level), a D100 table of side-effects to returning from the grave, and a new spell that allows a caster to have some protection against this rule.

'''The Clay of Heroes:''' A collection of sample heroic player characters for 5th edition Ravenloft.

'''Mikhail:''' A short fiction piece, told from the perspective of a crazed or inhuman woman whose lust for the titular human character leads to her murdering other women he is attracted to.

'''Heart of the World:''' An examination of Barovia, its purpose in Ravenloft campaigns, expanded world-details such as culture, faith, etcetera, and otherwise how best to make use of it.

'''The Domain of the Endless Word:''' An examination of Pharazia, its purpose in Ravenloft campaigns, expanded world-details such as culture, faith, etcetera, and otherwise how best to make use of it. It includes some creative re-presentation of Diamabel, pointing out the rather unfortunate implications of the classical version, a mad Muslim-esque would-be-god.

'''Demise:''' A preview excerpt from the Survey of the Sea of Sorrows planned netbook, detailing the isle of Demise. It includes not only its Darklord, Althea, but also the legendary Phagian Viruses and a new monster, the Stone Spirit.

'''Fey Lost:''' An adventure set in Tepest, in which the party becomes involved in a true clusterfrag; a gifted artisan has unwittingly caught the attentions of both a benevolent sylvan fae, who wishes his love, and a malevolent shadow fae, who wishes to rip out his soul and fashion it into a changeling (or elf-shot). All the while, an Inquisitor is sniffing around, looking for heretics and fae to burn.