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- The Titans, humanoid eldritch abominations who once ruled over the land of Scarn with an iron fist. Despite being part of the very being of the world itself, the Titans are amoral and cruel deities who will summon storms or create hideous monsters whenever they get bored. For example, Gaurak the Glutton is an obese Titan who once ate all life on the once-verdant moon. Their children, the gods, who ended up overthrowing them (with a few exceptions) aren't much better. Belsameth, one of the gods who controls the underworld, once got angry at a band of thieves who killed a man held for ransom, dumped him in a river, and prayed to the chaos-god Enkili instead of her to get rid of the corpse. Belsameth then bought the corpse to life, which then proceeded to murder the thieves and (even to her surprise) kill his own family for not paying up the ransom that could have saved him.
- Despite defeating the Titans, the gods could never truly kill them. Instead they hacked and sawed the titans into pieces and displaced them so they would never reunite. For example, the Titan Gormoth was split from skull to crotch by the gods Vangal and Chardun and each half placed on opposite sides of a great chasm. As a result, the flailing halves forever struggle to reunite.
- As horrible as the Titans and evil gods are, their created races and minions also deserve a mention in the high-octane nightmare fuel category, courtesy of Swords and Sorcery: Creature Collection:
- Sword Golem - A golem made of shattered and broken swords.
- Blood Horror Demon - Chosen priests who displeased the war god, Vangal, and were visited by a horrible disease that bled them until their corpses were husks. When their souls are greeted in the Abyss, things only get worse, as their souls are crafted into Blood Horrors, amorphous blobs of blood with giant maws. When the Blood Horror strikes, it prefers to leave its victims suffering from stigma wounds that, like the blood horror's death wounds in its former life, cannot be stanched.
- Blade Demon - A creation of the dark god Vangal. Among his most vicious, the blade demon appears as a twisted humanoid with scythes for hands and bladed wings wrapped with human skin. Black iron visors cover their faces, glowing with the heat of fleshly forged metal, which perpetually sears itself into the flesh of the demon.
- Dark Womb - Disgusting, hideous creatures that appear as obese hags from the waist up with a huge, translucent, bulbous sac of a termite queen for an abdomen. Cursed by Mormo, the patron of all witches and hags, for trying to create life, the Dark Womb uses any tissue from a living creature to create clone children that serve her to their deaths.
- Blood Maidens - Once benevolent aquatic beings that become tainted by the spilled blood of the Titan, Kadum. Blood Maidens look like beautiful women with long black hair and pale skin. When seeing their faces, the creature's monstrous nature becomes clear. Instead of a normal face, the blood maiden has only a giant circular, eyeless maw, like a lamprey.
- Garabrud, the Obsidian Hound - A thing of dread across the Scarred Lands. Nigh-invulnerable, guardian mastiffs that serve the ravenous Titan, Gaurak, the Obsidian Hound will flawlessly track any designated prey, no matter how far or hidden it is. The hound will continue to close on its prey, never resting and scarcely deviating from the most direct path. For those victims fortunate enough to be far away from the Garabrud when it begins its pursuit, the hound's coming is presaged in the victim's nightmares. When a wizard tried to take refuge in a citadel to escape the hound, the intensity of the nightmares drew him to commit suicide over the year the hound spent burrowing at the bedrock of the citadel to reach him.
- Hornsaw Unicorn - Imagine a unicorn. Now imagine a unicorn with a taste for flesh, pointy teeth, and a serrated horn like a rusted knife. For added fun, the manual implies that the "hornsaw unicorns" it describes are merely a half-breed of horses and real hornsaw unicorns, which live deep in the forest and are much scarier.
- Skin Devils - Terrifying creatures that in their natural state appear as human beings whose skin has been expertly removed, revealing glistening muscle and pulsing veins from head to toe. Its constant agony means it must cover its form in another's stolen skin.
- Flesh Strippers - Horrid packs of rodents that strip the flesh from grazing animals. The animals, anesthetized by the flesh strippers' poison, continue to graze or sleep until the beasts consume some vital organ and kill their prey.
- It really says something about a setting when the city ruled by (admittedly largely non-evil) necromancers is one of the better places to live. Oh sure, there's Nightmare Fuel aplenty in Hollowfaust, but if you're a resident the skeleton street cleaners and whatnot are on your side.
- The fact that up until 200 years ago the campaign setting was ruled by completely unkillable monsters who would torture or kill people by the thousands because they were bored. Hrinruuk is especially frightening (and evil). Imagine a seemingly nice guy walks into your town, gets friendly with the locals, and then demands the lord's daughter (or something else he wants) or he'll wipe out the entire city. And maybe he'll do it anyway, just for kicks, and sic a bunch of monsters on whoever survives to see how deadly they are. Then he'll kill the monsters. The worst part? He is considered the most likely to have created humans.
