Warlock

A warlock is defined by a pact with an otherworldly being. Sometimes the relationship between warlock and patron is like that of a cleric and a deity, though the beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are not gods. A warlock might lead a cult dedicated to a demon prince, an archdevil, or an utterly alien entity - beings not typically served by clerics. More often, though, the arrangement is similar to that between a master and an apprentice. The warlock learns and grows in power, at the cost of occasional services performed on the patron’s behalf.

Warlocks don’t seek a trust pact with a patron intrigued by their personality, for they know that ultimately every patron, even the most benevolent ones, have their own interests at core and treat their mortal servants as mere, disposable pawns. A warlock applies to the signing and clauses of their pact the same rigorous method that wizards apply to the study of arcane magic; for, as most warlocks believe, it is ultimately possible for a warlock to outsmart its own patron. And, as mortal warlocks study their schemes, all their patrons laugh.

Warlocks are finders and keepers of secrets. They push at the edge of our understanding of the world, always seeking to expand their expertise. Where sages or wizards might heed a clear sign of danger and end their research, a warlock plunges ahead, heedless of the cost. Thus, it takes a peculiar mixture of intelligence, curiosity, and recklessness to produce a warlock. Many folk would describe that combination as evidence of madness. Warlocks see it as a demonstration of bravery.

Warlocks are defined by two elements that work in concert to forge their path into this class. The first element is the event or circumstances that led to a warlock’s entering into a pact with a planar entity. The second one is the nature of the entity a warlock is bound to. Unlike clerics, who typically embrace a deity and that god’s ethos, a warlock might have no love for a patron, or vice versa.

The sections that follow provide ways to embellish a warlock character that could generate some intriguing story and roleplaying opportunities.

Patron’s Attitude

Every relationship is a two-way street, but in the case of warlocks and their patrons it’s not necessarily true that both sides of the street are the same width or made of the same stuff. The feeling that a warlock holds for their patron, whether positive or negative, might be reciprocated by the patron, or the two participants in the pact might view one another with opposing emotions.

When you determine the attitude your warlock character holds toward your patron, also consider how things look from the patron’s perspective. Is your patron an ally, or an enemy that grants you power only because you forced a pact upon it?

Patron Attitudes

d6	Attitude
1	Your patron has guided and helped your family for generations and is kind toward you.
2	Each interaction with your capricious patron is a surprise, whether pleasant or painful.
3	Your patron is the spirit of a long-dead being who sees your pact as a way for it to continue to influence the world.
4	Your patron is a strict disciplinarian but treats you with a measure of respect.
5	Your patron tricked you into a pact and treats you as a slave.
6	You are mostly left to your own devices with no interference from your patron. Sometimes you dread the demands it will make when it does appear.

Class Training

Why did you choose the path of a warlock. In the following table are some suggestions, but keep in mind your background and all the other details you have established so far.

Warlock Background

d12	I became a warlock because …
1	While wandering around in a forbidden place, I encountered an otherworldly being that offered to enter into a pact with me.
2	I was examining a strange tome I found in an abandoned library when the entity that would become my patron suddenly appeared before me.
3	I stumbled into the clutches of my patron after I accidentally stepped through a magical doorway.
4	One of my ancestors had a pact with my patron, so that entity was determined to bind me to the same agreement.
5	My future patron visited me in my dreams and offered great power in exchange for my service.
6	Desperation. I lived an ordinary life until one day catastrophe struck and I called out desperately to any power that would come to my aid. The entity that gave me this power might be benevolent or sinister in nature, but ever since I called it, the being remains close to me.
7	Apprenticed. My development was guided by a close agent of my patron. It might have been a mortal or magical creature, such as a demon, hag, dryad, elf, or pixie. It has been with me most of my life, instructing me in the arts of spellcasting, charms, and hexes.
8	Forbidden lore. In my youth, there was something I fervently desired, perhaps love, wealth, or revenge. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t obtain that which I coveted. Only when I turned my eye to ancient tomes and ruins and experimented with strange powers beyond my comprehension wes I able to get what I wanted.
9	Found familiar. When I were young, I happened upon a strange animal with whom I forged an instant bond. It instructed me in casting spells and became my closest, most trusted companion. This animal is later revealed to have connection to my patron, perhaps even is my patron in disguise.
10	Initiated. When I came of age, a coven of warlocks initiated me into their circle because I showed great promise. After my initiation ritual, I changed on a fundamental level.
11	Invocation. When I reached adolescence, I wanted power and I wanted it immediately. I didn’t have the patience or tolerance to endure endless years of boring theory and formal magical training, so I offered up my body and soul in an invocation to an entity that would grant my desire.
12	Possessed. For reasons I may never understand, an otherworldly entity took possession of me in my formative years. Since then, my mortal body has been the vessel for this mysterious power.

Warlock Class Features

Seekers of ancient—and often forbidden—knowledge, warlocks make a pact with an otherworldly being for the promise of power and reward. As a warlock, you gain the following features:

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8

Saving Throws

You are proficient with Intelligence and Wisdom saving throws.

Skills

Class Skills: All Knowledge skills, Investigation and Underworld

Skill Points: You gain 2 skill points at 1st level.

Skills - Combat

Weapon Groups: You have rank 1 with Club, Knife, Spear, Staff, Crossbow and Sling.

Combat Skill Points: You gain the Light armor skill.

After 1st level: You gain 1 skill point to spend on combat skills every 3rd level, at levels 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
• (a) a scholar’s pack or (b) a dungeoneer’s pack
• Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

Otherworldly Patron

At 1st level, you have struck a bargain with an otherworldly being, each of which is detailed at the end of the class description. Your choice grants you features at 1st level and again at 6th, 10th, and 14th level.

Pact Boon

To mark the initiation of your pact bargain, you are rewarded with a boon from your patron—an eldritch weapon, a book of forbidden secrets, a trinket that summons a bound familiar, a wand of destructive power, etc. You may choose a boon from the list of Pact Boons.

Spellcasting Focus

For as long as you are holding or wearing it, your pact boon acts as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.

Pact Magic

Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells.

Cantrips

You know two cantrips of your choice from your spell list. You learn additional warlock cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Warlock table.

When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warlock cantrips you know and replace it with another cantrip from your spell list.

Spell Slots

The Warlock table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your warlock spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

Spells Known

At 1st level, you know two 1st-level spells of your choice from your spell list. The Spells Known column of the Warlock table shows when you learn more warlock spells of your choice of 1st level and higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what’s shown in the table’s Slot Level column for your level.

When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the warlock spells you know and replace it with another spell from your spell list, which also must be no higher than your maximum Slot Level.

Spellcasting Ability

A warlock rarely stumbles into power by accident—they seek it out, against all wisdom and at great personal cost. With intellect, warlocks decipher eldritch runes, pierce the mortal veil, and bargain with otherworldly powers. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your warlock spells.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier

Spellcasting Focus

You use an arcane focus or your pact boon item as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.

Eldritch Versatility

When you finish a long rest, you may replace one of your known warlock spells with another spell from your spell list. The new spell must be of the same spell level as the spell you replace.

Eldritch Invocations

In your study of occult lore, you unearth eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability.

At 2nd level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Warlock table.

Replacing Invocations

When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.

Patron Invocations

You have access to unique invocations from your Otherworldly Patron, as well as from you Pact boon. Add these to your list of Eldritch Invocation options

Sacrificial Bargain

At 1st-level, you gain the Sacrificial Bargain feature. With a sacrifice of health, your patron grants you power.

When you cast a warlock spell of 1st-level or higher, you may spend a number of hit die equal to your warlock spell level to cast the spell without expending a spell slot. If the spell can’t be cast at a higher level, you may instead spend a number of hit die equal to the spell’s maximum casting level.

Once you have used this feature, you can not use it until you have completed a short rest.

Mystic Arcanum

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you a magical secret called an arcanum. Choose one 6th-level spell from your spell list as this arcanum. You can cast this spell once without expending a spell slot. You can regain this feature after a long rest.

At higher levels, you gain more spells of your choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at 13th level, one 8th-level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level spell at 17th level.

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, you can draw on your inner reserve of mystical power while entreating your patron to regain expended spell slots. You can spend 1 minute entreating your patron for aid to regain all your expended spell slots from your Pact Magic feature.

Once you regain spell slots with this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Otherworldly Patrons

The beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are mighty inhabitants of other planes of existence - not gods, but almost godlike in their power. Various patrons give their warlocks access to different powers and invocations, and expect significant favors in return.

Some patrons collect warlocks, doling out mystic knowledge relatively freely or boasting of their ability to bind mortals to their will. Other patrons bestow their power only grudgingly, and might make a pact with only one warlock. Warlocks who serve the same patron might view each other as allies, siblings, or rivals.

Some of the patrons are described very generally, but that only means that the powers granted are very similar between the being of that type. You have still set up your contract with one specific being. If you need inspiration for a patron, or roll one randomly, there is a list HERE.

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Abraxas, Master of the Final Incantation

As the demon lord of magic and forbidden lore, Abraxas knows countless destructive secrets and eldritch magical formulas, particularly those that cause great devastation and pain. His greatest weapon is the dreaded “Final Incantation”, a single potent word that can unmake magic.

Abraxas dwells in the realm of Pleroma, a deceptive world of false paradise maintained by complex illusions and clever construction. A visitor to Pleroma may not even realize she wanders an Abyssal realm, as the nefarious region reshapes itself between blinks and around every corner into places the traveler might view as serene and beautiful. Abraxas himself rules Pleroma from the spiral city of Diovengia. Hypnotic in its beauty, Diovengia consists of thousands of library towers and fortified repositories of hidden knowledge. Populated by serpents, enslaved souls, and plenty of demons, Diovengia’s libraries are sometimes visited by brave and curious seekers of knowledge; although one must be wary when bargaining with the custodians therein.

On Golarion, one can expect to find small cults of Abraxas in most large cities. He is also venerated by sadistic wizards, sorcerers and scholars who seek forbidden knowledge. His cult is particularly strong in Nex’s capital city of Quantium, where it maintains a notorious library called Scrivenbough, a fortified stone structure with countless rare books in its holdings, and cultists who tattoo the greatest secrets on hidden parts of their bodies.

Quirks

Each warlock who delves into the secrets of Abraxas’ archives is touched in a different way by the foul knowledge and ancient arts that lie within. Many develop strange habits and unusual practices, while others are physically marked during the rituals and practices they perform and the prices that must be paid to achieve ownership of the power they wield. When creating a warlock, consider adding one or more of the following traits to your character.

Abraxas Warlock Quirks

d12	Quirk
1	You rarely speak louder than a whisper, and compulsively hush other people.
2	You can’t stand to see others handle books in your presence, and take them away immediately.
3	You constantly chant a single phrase under your breath in a language you don’t understand.
4	Whenever you hear a secret, you write it down.
5	You keep a record of the events of each day and store it within a tome you allow no others to see.
6	Your skin becomes pale like parchment.
7	You always hold books as far away from you as possible.
8	Your tears are black like ink, and stain heavily.
9	Thick black veins run through your arms and legs. Occasionally, they twitch.
10	Your hands are always stained with ink, even after being washed.
11	Your irises become red, with black veins running through them. Sometimes you can see the veins form words.
12	Blood placed on your skin appears to form runic sigils. You’re not certain what they mean.

Tainted Knowledge

You have feasted your eyes upon books from the libraries of Diovengia, and your mind has both withered and grown. Gain 1 skill points to spend on each of the Arcana, History, Nature or Religion skills.

You can use an action to enter the Accursed Archives of Diovengia along with up to ten willing companions of your choosing that you can see. Time does not pass outside the Archive while you are within, and you cannot rest, recover hit points, or maintain concentration while inside. For more information on the Archive, see the ”Inside the Archive” section. When you choose to depart, you and your companions return instantly to the point from which you entered.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Heretical Revelation

You can whisper terrible secrets to an adjacent target as an action. The target can resist with a Wisdom save aginst your spell save DC. If the target fails its save, it is incapacitated for 1 round, then confused for 1d4 rounds, and then frightened of you for 2d6 rounds. The target does not need to understand you, but must be able to hear.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a short rest.

Vile Heresies

You uncover secrets that could shatter the balance of the heavens and hells. Choose any spell of 4th level or lower that is not a cantrip. You can cast this spell once using a warlock spell slot and can regain its use after you finish a long rest.

Whenever you are within the Archive, you can exchange this spell for a different one, but cannot use it until you finish a long rest. You cannot exchange the spell if you have already cast the spell and have not completed a long rest to restore it.

Penultimate Incantation

You can affect a any number of creatures within 30 ft with a dispel magic. Each spell or effect dispelled inflicts fire damage to the target equal to the result of your caster level check made to dispel that effect.

Once you have used this ability, you may not use it again until you have completed a short rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by Abraxas to its warlocks.

Inside the Archive

While few have ventured into the accursed archives of Diovengia, those who do cannot help but be drawn through the opening halls to gaze upon the tome in the center of the room - Index Incarnatus - the endless book that contains the location and description of every scrap of forbidden lore within the city. Even gazing upon it for mere moments can cause discomfort, and reading from it can cause agony to both the body and the soul. Any creature that attempts to read from the Index must make a Intelligence save against DC 20. If they fail, they gain a level of exhaustion, but might still locate the correct tome or scroll.

The Silent One

Each time a person speaks or makes noise within the archives, the DM should roll a d20. If the result is a 1, the person has attracted the attention of the Silent One: a terrifying, tentacled nightmare of unspeakable strength that exists with the sole purpose of curating and protecting the knowledge hidden here. The Silent One is blind, but has keen hearing and long tendrils that cannot be truly harmed by ordinary magic or metal, only driven back for mere moments. The creature is deceptively quick, seeming to flow slowly between each motion.

A Nightmarish Visage

While the Silent One appears before each person who has entered the Archive in a different way, all describe it as large, powerful, and extremely dangerous. Some claim it looks similar to a hound, blind and eyeless, with massive teeth and an eerie walk that conceals its speed. They say tendrils spiral from its back, laying around the hallways waiting to ensnare someone walking without sufficient caution.

Others claim it looks like a bat, with large wings and ears that twitch atop a mass of tentacles. Those who have seen this incarnation claim it swoops down from the highest bookshelves, crashing into unfortunate souls before pinning them beneath its unholy mass and devouring them alive. Few see it as a serpent, silently flickering a tongue-like tendril that enables it to seek out those who are quiet enough to hide from it. A rare number call it a spider, sitting within a web of limbs and tentacles, waiting for a fly to stumble upon it.

Those who have fallen to madness after seeing the beast multiple times claim all of these answers are wrong, and put forth an even more disturbing hypothesis: There is not merely a single Silent One, but many. Each that greets the next unfortunate soul is one of the previous victims of the beasts, transformed into their worst nightmare by the unspeakable powers that dwell within the darkest depths of the Archive. Few believe these tales, of course, but they are hard to shake. After all, those who have attempted to resurrect individuals who’ve fallen to the beast have failed, even when using the most powerful of magic.

Hunting Methods

Each turn this creature is hunting the party, randomly choose one target, prioritizing those who have spoken loudly or who have damaged writings within the Archive. The target must make an appropriate saving throw or ability check with a DC equal to 10 plus the character’s level. If they succeed, they manage to flee, quiet themselves sufficiently, or fend off the monstrosity for a moment, buying time for the rest of the party to complete their work.

If they fail, the dark tendrils of the creature dig into their skin with unnerving ease, injecting a maddening and wriggling mass of unnatural flesh before withdrawing, which inflicts a level of exhaustion. If a member of the party gains six levels of exhaustion, they are seized by the beast and dragged into the depths of the Archive to meet a dark and twisted fate.

Leaving the Archive

The party can depart from the Archive by returning to the central hall and striking the small bell located beside the Index as an action. Each person striking the bell instantly departs and returns to the location from which they entered the Archive, with no time having passed from the moment they left.

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The Ancient Dragon

Creatures of innate magic and eons-old intelligence, dragons are beings of legend, fate, destruction, and destiny incarnate. Though it is a secret known to few, the truly ancient of their kind are able to share their inner magic with mortals by taking part in an eldritch ritual involving a contract and an elixir of the ancient dragon’s own blood suffused with the dragon’s potent magical will. This ritual binds the mortal to their ancient draconic patron, sharing in the power of the dragon’s blood and gaining a ortion of the dragon’s own magic.

Dragons are fickle, however, and notorious hoarders of both treasure and power, neither of which they give up without an abundantly good reason. What could have influenced your draconic patron to give up a (even quite small) portion of their power, and what does the dragon hope to gain by it? How involved is your patron in your affairs, and why did they choose you to bear some of their power? Often, these are questions that even the warlock has to ponder, as the true intent of a dragon is hidden to all but the most calculating, or truly insane, minds.

Breath of the Ancients

The dragon that has chosen to bestow power upon you has lent a distinct character to the abilities you possess. Choose the option that corresponds with your patron’s ancestry on the table below.

Dragon	Damage type	Breath Weapon
Black	Acid	5 by 30 ft. line
Blue	Lightning	5 by 30 ft. line
Brass	Fire	5 by 30 ft. line
Bronze	Lightning	5 by 30 ft. line
Сорper	Acid	5 by 30 ft. line
Gold	Fire	15 ft. cone
Green	Poison	15 ft. cone
Red	Fire	15 ft. cone
Silver	Cold	15 ft. cone
White	Cold	15 ft. cone

You gain a breath weapon based on the heritage of your patron, which you may use as an action on your turn. This breath weapon targets all creatures in its listed area (starting from your location). Targets must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC, or a Constitution saving throw instead if your patron’s damage type is cold or poison.

If a creature fails this saving throw, it takes damage of your patron’s damage type, equal to your warlock level + your Intelligence modifier, or half this amount if it succeeds on the saving throw.

Once you use this ability, you must take a short rest before you can use it again.

Dragonscales

You can call upon the scales of your patron to burst forth in patches upon your body, protecting you from harm. As a reaction when you are hit by an attack, you may extend your dragonscales and add your Intelligence modifier to your AC until the beginning of your next turn. This bonus to AC also applies against the attack that triggered this ability, and may cause the triggering hit to instead become a miss.

Once you have used this ability, you may not use it again until you have completed a short rest.

Blood of Dragons

Gain resistance to the damage type associated with your draconic patron, as selected in your Breath of the Ancients feature.

If you are included in the area of a spell or feature effect that deals damage, and you succeed on a saving throw imposed by that spell or effect, you become enraged with the fury of your patron. While enraged, the first attack you make before the end of your next turn deals 2d6 additional damage of your patron’s damage type.

Draconic Apotheosis

You can assume the form of an aspect of your draconic patron for up to a minute. You may sprout horns, grow scales, gain burning draconic eyes, and take on other features directly reminiscent of your draconic lord.

You can transform on your turn using a bonus action, which grants the the following abilities:

• Webbed dragon wings sprout from your back, granting you a flying speed of 60 ft.
• As a bonus action on your turn, you may level your draconic gaze at a creature within 60 ft. This creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or become frightened of you for one minute. A creature affected by this repeats this save at the end of each of its turns, and a creature that saves against this effect is immune to it for 24 hours.
• The damage caused by your Breath of the Ancients increases by 10, and the damage dice from your Blood of Dragons feature increase from 2d6 to 2d12.

Once you have used this ability, you may not use it again until you complete a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Ancient Dragon to its warlocks.

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The Ancient Toad

You’ve made a pact with a being of immense size and strength. Sitting in a large, palatial temple within a network of mystical swamps, woods, and rivers lies the Ancient Toad, a creature of knowledge, magic, and power. Generally concerned with only its own realm and its preservation, the Ancient Toad rules over the various denizens that reside within it, from the smallest frogs and tadpole servants to the largest toad brutes and sages.

Though it rarely leaves its own home, the Ancient Toad often sends its minions out into the world to observe the comings and goings of other realms, or to gather items and resources that can benefit its homeland. The Ancient Toad admires mortals who adhere to laws, seek to better their people through whatever means necessary, or desire strength and power to accomplish goals that would not harm the Ancient Toad or its minions.

Quirks of the Toad Sage

The life of living amongst toads, frogs, and other amphibians has changed aspects of your appearance and personality. Consider the following quirks when creating a warlock under the Ancient Toad. You may use as many of the following quirks as you like.

Quirks

d14	Quirks
1	You love swimming in rivers and pods.
2	You sometimes eat flies or small insects.
3	Your irises are shaped like that of a toad or frog.
4	Your tongue becomes elongated and thicker.
5	You enjoy speeling on moss or cool stone.
6	Your eyes appear to slightly bulge outward.
7	Your skin becomes damp and smooth, like that of a frog.
8	Your skin becomes dry and bumpy, like that of a toad.
9	You tend to prefer warmer or temperate climates, and dislike the cold.
10	Your hands and feet have large webbings between fingers and toads.
11	Your hair tends to look greasy or damp.
12	You tend to dart your tongue out when hungry or deep in throught.
13	You often enjoy the company of others, in both leisure and work.
14	You tend to be highly loyal to your friends and family.

Speech of the Amphibious

Your familiarity with toads and frogs has given you insight into how they live. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. You also learn the acid splash and acicid discharge cantrips.

Additionally, you can speak to toads, frogs, and other amphibians as if you were under the effects of the speak with animals spell.

Call of the Swamp

Frogs and toads can come to your aid. As an action, you can cast conjure animals, but you can only summon frogs or toads, including giant frogs and giant toads.

Once you use this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Traits of the Toad

You have learned even more from the toads. Gain immunity to acid and the poisoned condition.

Additionally, when you are subject to an effect that requires you to make a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to leap into the air to an unoccupied location within 30 ft of you, potentially avoiding the effect.

You cannot use this feature again until you finish a short rest.

Friend of the Toad

One of the strongest of toads has become your ally. By speaking its name, you can summon a monstrous humanoid toad to aid you in combat, appearing as either a green, red, brown, or black toad, and armed with a large club and a simple vest. This creature acts under your command during its turn, and can speak, and possesses a simple personality. The toad remains until it dies, you dismiss it, or one minute has passed.

You can summon the monstrous toad once and can regain the use of this feature after you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Ancient Toad to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiars

Warlocks who have been given the Pact of the Chain can choose to have either of the two following familiars: The Horned Toad or The River Frog.

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The Archfey

Your patron is a lord or lady of the fey, a creature of legend who holds secrets that were forgotten before the mortal races were born. This being’s motivations are often inscrutable, and sometimes whimsical, and might involve a striving for greater magical power or the settling of age-old grudges. Beings of this sort include the Prince of Frost; the Queen of Air and Darkness, ruler of the Gloaming Court; Titania of the Summer Court; her consort Oberon, the Green Lord; Hyrsam, the Prince of Fools; and ancient hags.

Fey Presence

Your patron bestows upon you the ability to project the beguiling and fearsome presence of the fey. As an action, you can cause each creature in a 10 ft cube originating from you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. The creatures that fail their saving throws all gain the charmed condition or are frightened by you (your choice) until the end of your next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Misty Escape

You can vanish in a puff of mist in response to harm. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to turn invisible and teleport up to 60 ft to an unoccupied space you can see. You remain invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Beguiling Defenses

Your patron teaches you how to turn the mind-affecting magic of your enemies against them. You are immune to being charmed, and when another creature attempts to charm you, you can use your reaction to attempt to turn the charm back on that creature.

The creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be charmed by you for 1 minute or until the creature takes any damage.

Dark Delirium

You can plunge a creature into an illusory realm. As an action, choose a creature that you can see within 60 ft. It must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed save, it is charmed or frightened by you (your choice) for 1 minute or until your concentration is broken. This effect ends early if the creature takes any damage.

Until this illusion ends, the creature thinks it is lost in a misty realm, the appearance of which you choose. The creature can see and hear only itself, you, and the illusion.

You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Archfey to its warlocks.

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The Ashen Wolf

Within every fire, there is an insatiable and gluttonous greed. A simple and pure predatory urge to consume, feast, and burn until nothing is left. Wood, flesh, and metal alike bow before the furious supremacy of the flame. The Ashen Wolf is a physical manifestation of this terrible hunger. Some call it a fiend from the blackest pit, others call it an elemental creature. Nevertheless, it is living, it is hungry, and it burns for the thrill of the hunt.

The Voice of the Fire

Those who have laid eyes upon the Wolf and lived describe it as a being of unquestionable presence. It is a massive lupine creature with eyes like the fires of a burning home, fur that smolders in the dark, a cloak of smoky ash, teeth of sharpened steel that gleam in the light, and a deep voice that carries like the whisper of a struck match in a quiet forest.

While the Wolf is ever-hungry, it seeks more than mere meat. It hungers for conflict, companionship, and the freedom to roam and burn. Often surrounded by emberborn, small wolf-like fire elementals, it hunts the forests of the world for ancient beasts, cunning prey, and lost wanderers.

A Dangerous Bargain

The Ashen Wolf is known to the mortal races from the stories told of those who have gone to entreat this beast, begging for aid, power, or control over their own destiny. The Wolf is known to grant these requests, but the price for this boon is cruel and terrible by all accounts.

The Wolf delights in the suffering of mortals it does not consider within its pack, and thus payment often comes in the form of a curse that plagues the supplicant forevermore. Those that survive often regret their decision, in the end.

Sign of the Burning Harvest

Cultures that lie within the untamed lands beyond the civilized world are often more familiar with the Ashen Wolf than those who dwell within the cities, though even their knowledge is often rife with superstition. The Wolf seems to enjoy the sacrifices made in its name and responds favorably to those who perform the proper rituals, sending its emberborn servants to hunt the beasts that plague its supplicants or to purge outcasts and criminals from their land. If the fields burn and the granaries are destroyed in the process, then that is the price of the hungering flame.

The Wolf is often symbolized with a flag coated in ash with prominent markings of fangs or claw-prints drawn in red or orange paint. In some cultures, magically-heated metal is twisted into unusual shapes and pressed into trees to mark the domain of the Wolf’s servants.

The Pact

You’ve made a pact with a primal spirit of fire and the hunt – a scourge of the forests and fields, and a harbinger of ill fate. This creature is wise and cunning, making deals with those who have the potential to bring ruin and change. Some consider the beast to be native to the Plane of Elemental Fire; others call it a fiend from the darkest hells. Whatever its origin, the ember-eyed wolf often extracts payment in the form of wishes gone awry: a demand for power becomes a battle to retain one’s humanity, while a request for a peaceful resolution often has a price that brings constant regret.

Quirks of the Ashen

Warlocks who have made a pact with the Ashen Wolf are often known simply as ashen. Consider adding one or more of these quirks when creating a warlock or after performing an action that would please the Wolf.

Quirks

d16	Quirks
1	You eat your meat raw or badly burned.
2	You habitually start fires using damp or wet wood.
3	You have a strange hostility to cats.
4	You prefer to sleep on the ground rather than a bed.
5	You talk to fire, and sometimes, it answers.
6	Smoke slowly swirls around your head and limbs.
7	Sparks appear when your skin is rubbed.
8	Your tears are black like ink, and stain heavily.
9	Food you eat always tastes like ash.
10	Your breath often comes out as a cloud of smoke.
11	Your teeth become eerily large and sharp.
12	Your fingernails become dark and claw-like.
13	Your eyes glow like hot coals.
14	You always sit closest to the fire.
15	A thin layer of ash constantly flakes off your skin.
16	You compulsively scratch your fingers on wood.

Breath of Smoke

You can use your action to exhale blistering embers in a 15 ft cone. Each creature in that area must make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. Creature that fail take fire damage equal to your warlock level + your Intelligence modifier and are blinded until the end of their next turn.

If you activate this feature again before finishing a long rest, you gain one level of exhaustion.

Additionally, you can breathe and see normally in smoke or ash-filled air.

Feast for the Fire

When you damage a creature with fire, you mark it as a sacrifice to the Ashen Wolf.

If it is killed while adjacent to you, before the end of your next turn, you can use a reaction to incinerate it, leaving it a pile of ash. You gain temporary hit points equal to your warlock level, and can spend one Hit Die to heal yourself.

Endless Pursuit

Your patron grants you a portion of its primal stamina. You gain resistance to fire damage. When you finish a short rest, you can choose to reduce your level of exhaustion by one.

You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Beast of the Burning End

You unlock the power to incarnate into the form of your patron. As an action, you wrap yourself in the guise of a massive flaming lupine creature. For 1 minute, or until you exit this incarnation as a bonus action, you gain the following benefits.

• Your size becomes Large.
• You ignore all levels of exhaustion.
• Your speed increases by 20 ft.
• You have advantage on melee attack rolls against a creature if at least one of your allies is adjacent to the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated.
• You are immune to fire damage.

When you use this feature, two hell hounds burst forth from your burning flesh. They obey any verbal commands that you issue to them (no action required). If you don’t issue any commands to them or are incapacitated, they defend themselves and you from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions. They act on your initiative count, have twice as many hit points as a normal hell hound, and are considered elementals instead of their normal type.

When you exit this incarnation, the hell hounds instantly turn to ash. Your body immediately attempts to reabsorb the ash as it swirls back to you from up to 300 feet away. If a hell hound has died or the ash cannot return to you due to distance, you gain one level of exhaustion per missing hound.

You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Ashen Wolf to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to the Ashen who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Blackthorn Grove

Nature possesses a beauty that is only rivaled by the works of the finest minds of mortals, yet it is not a beauty born from will and determination, but from single-minded apathy to everything but oneself. Those who wander, departing from society due to misery or tragedy, who enter the untouched wildlands to find themselves will end up somewhere dark and perilous. The Blackthorn Grove is their destination, whether they know it or not.

The Maze of Blood

Lost and stranded, yet unafraid and uncaring of the outcome, the wandering souls will find themselves within a maze of bloody brambles and roses blacker than ink. Those who are weakened by their journey often fall here and are feasted upon by the vines that burrow into their corpses. The vines move with deliberate motions, causing dead jaws to open before snapping shut and broken teeth to grind in a symphony of suffering.

The ones who close their hearts to the cruelty inflicted upon the dead find themselves called forward, deeper into the maze. They will face obstacles that are insurmountable without sacrifice, their clothing and armor torn to shreds by the thorns of the black roses as they watch the plants feast upon their crimson bounty.

The Fields of Acedia

The few who manage to enter the Maze of Blood and survive to find the exit are greeted by broad fields of flowers, endless in variety and color. Small copses of trees bearing fruits unseen by those in the outside world dot the landscape, and a stream runs through the center filled with pure water. In short, it would seem to be a paradise by comparison to those who suffered such a harrowing journey.

However, this place is far more dangerous than the Maze, for it does not harvest the body, but the mind. Those who enter this place and feast upon the fruits and drink of the water find that the wounds they suffered within the Maze of Blood shall not heal. Instead, they continue to slowly drip that precious crimson ichor upon the roots of the flowers and trees, the blood loss numbing the pain of the journey. Those who partake do not care, however, as their minds are filled with the pleasures of their meal.

The Heart of Rebirth

The wanderers who care not for the false temptations of the Fields while seeking the true purpose of this otherworldly place inevitably find themselves standing before the entrance to the Blackthorn Grove. Within, they are consumed by the disdain they feel for both themselves and the world, and use the thorns as claws to tear their own hearts from their chests, offering them as tribute to the single flower within.

In response, the Blackthorn burrows into the gap where their heart once was, filling them with purpose – to grow, to fight, to live, and to see the world with eyes unclouded by hate. Reborn, they revel in the emotions abandoned within the Maze and Fields, now seeking the joy of life. However, the heart rooted in their chest thirsts for blood, and they will be instinctively drawn to violent conflict and suffer a lust for power. It is the nature of a grove to seek to spread and grow, after all, and only the most powerful can provide fertile soil for the seed of the Blackthorn Grove.

The Pact

You’ve torn out your heart as an offering to the Blackthorn Grove after braving the Maze of Blood and resisting the temptations of the Fields of Acedia. In place of your heart, a pulsing, beating, writhing mass of thorns has grown and made you whole. The lifeblood of the world itself runs through your veins, granting you power and passion alike to fulfill your purpose, whatever that may be. The trials and suffering of your past beckon you to make amends or take your revenge, but the feeling of grass under your feet and the sunlight upon your face is enough to help you understand the worth of life. Wander alone no longer, for even in death the Grove shall grant you a home.

Quirks of the Thornhearted

Warlocks who draw power from the Blackthorn Grove are called thornhearted and are often secretive about their origins, instead preferring to converse about more pressing matters. Their secrecy is often born of necessity, as most have enemies that would love to see them dead. Consider adding one or more of these quirks when creating a warlock or after drawing heavily from the power of the Grove.

Quirks

d10	Quirk
1	You smile and laugh without reservation.
2	You weep openly whenever you feel despair.
3	You dislike cities and urban areas.
4	You make inspiring speeches with surprising frequency.
5	Your flesh seems to ripple under your skin.
6	Your irises become blood red with green streaks.
7	Your facial features become accentuated by small plantlike growths that cover your cheekbones or brow.
8	Your hair becomes long strands of grass and leaves.
9	Wooden horns emerge from your forehead.
10	Whenever you cast a spell, your Blackthorn heart pulses with crimson energy.

Blackthorn Heart

You have torn out your heart and replaced it with something otherworldly, granting you the will to survive. Whenever you fail a death saving throw, your Blackthorn heart bursts from your chest and lashes out with life-stealing briars toward a creature within 15 ft. The briars target the nearest hostile creature if possible, but if no hostile creatures are in range, any target will do. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the creature takes magical piercing damage equal to your warlock level, and you regain hit points equal to the damage dealt.

After you recover hit points using this feature, you cannot make this attack again until you finish a short rest.

Apathy is Death

You can use your reaction to surge with purpose and haste whenever you make an Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma saving throw. You gain advantage on the saving throw, and can make a single weapon attack before the result of the roll is revealed.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a short rest.

Arboreal Guardian

Your purpose is not merely to exist, but to safeguard life. Whenever an adjacent creature would take damage, you can choose to redirect half of the damage to you by shielding them with vines from your Blackthorn heart. Only the original target suffers any additional effects of the damage. If this damage reduces you to 0 hit points, you gain advantage on the first attack made by your Blackthorn Heart feature.

Seeds of Destruction

You realize the reason you have been blessed with this power and purpose: to spread the Blackthorn Grove. As an action, or whenever you are reduced to 0 hit points and you fail to recover hit points using your Blackthorn Heart feature, you can choose to have the beginnings of a new Maze of Blood appear around you. The area within a 30 ft radius becomes difficult terrain as blood-hungry vines emerge from the assembled briars to drink their fill.

A creature within the area at the start of its turn must make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. A target takes 4d6 magical slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Allies make this saving throw with advantage. If summoned as an action, it lasts until the start of your next turn. If summoned when you are at 0 hit points, it lasts until you recover 1 hit point, or becomes permanent if you die.

The Maze can be summoned once as an action, and this use recovers whenever you finish a long rest. The Maze can also be summoned once when you are at 0 hit points, and this use recovers whenever you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Blackthorn Grove to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Thornhearted warlocks who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Cosmic Machine

Your patron is Primus, The One and the Prime, supreme ruler of the Clockwork Nirvana of Mechanus and overarching will, mind and soul of the Modron race. Primus, its plane and its creations all represent the fundamental concept of universal law: that all is right happens because it must inescapably be, and all that which is wrong must not be. Thus, though Primus’s primary concern always lies with the Modrons, it also takes the role of extraplanar arbiter, ensuring that certain events - from upholding sworn oaths, to assuring the punishment of any devil that breaches a contract - do or do not come to pass. Even the vast resources of Mechanus cannot cover the breadth of the planes, and hence, Primus turns to mortal warlocks to enact its will.

The One and the Prime insists its operatives follow their directives to the letter. Its warlocks can expect to be sent on tasks of tremendous variety - one day, ensuring the marriage of two peasant lovers in an isolated village, the next, delivering buried treasure to its owners next of kin against impossible odds.

Your physical appearance might have been changed in some way by your relationship to the machine and your pact spells are all cosmetically altered to reflect the machine’s technologically advanced themes.

Quirks

The behaviour of the warlock of the Machine patron is not often directly influenced by their benefactor, but serving a being so alien to the thoughts and emotions of most living creatures tends to have lingering effects. The following quirks are made to give a little flavour to one who has made a pact with constructs of immense power.

Machine Warlock Quirks

d8	Quirk
1	You are obsessed with the form and function of all objects, particularly ones with moving parts.
2	You have an overbearing contempt for any tradition that defies logical reasoning.
3	You find it difficult to convey subtle emotion.
4	You are irritated when a less optimal approach to a particular issue is taken.
5	Your movements are always methodical and deliberate unless you make an extra effort to appear natural.
6	Your face appears unnervingly perfect, similar to a porcelain mask.
7	You often ignore social convention in the face of logic.
8	Everything must be ordered, everything must be in place. That book should be in the shelf, that mop should be next to the bucket…

Mechanical Arcana

Learn the mending and shocking grasp cantrips, which do not count against your known cantrips.

Warped Reality

You can briefly bend and contract space between you and a target within 60 ft, as part of an attack. This unexpected strike grants you advantage on your attack roll and also grants shorter ranged attacks a range of 60 ft, including melee attacks.

You may also use this feature to pick up an object, perform the Use Object action, or perform a touch spell on a willing creature within this range. You may not pick up an object that weighs more than 10 pounds.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a short rest.

Defensive Protocol

You can impose your will on an attacker, forcing them to cease their hostility. As a reaction when a creature within 60 ft targets you with an attack, spell or effect, you can force the target to make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed save, the target gains the charmed condition until the end of your next turn, until you deal damage to it, or until you force it to make a saving throw.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Axiomatic Mind

Your course of action is yours alone to control. You are immune to the frightened condition, and whenever you are charmed or otherwise magically compelled to act against your will, you can make another saving throw against the spell or effect that you are charmed by, ending the effect on yourself on a success.

The Maker’s Monolith

You can summon an imposing column of stone or steel as an action; raising a 3 foot wide and 15 ft tall monument in an adjacent space.

This nigh invincible monolith acts as a conduit for your patron’s power into this realm. You can spend 10 minutes forming any basic structures or objects made of non-magical metal, wood or stone, or altering terrain within 30 feet of this monolith. Objects or structures removed from this area will disintegrate after 1 minute, and terrain will revert to its natural form. In addition, you are mentally alerted when a creature of size Tiny or larger enters this area, as long as you are within 5 miles.

You can also teleport yourself and up to 4 other willing creatures within 10 ft to the base of the monolith as an action, as long as you are within 5 miles of it. Once you teleport like this, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

This effect is active as long as you maintain concentration. If you concentrate for one hour after creating the monolith, this effect becomes permanent until you raise another monolith, then it will recede into the ground and all surrounding changes are reversed to their original state.

Once you raise a monolith, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Cosmic Machine to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

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The Crone

Your patron is a elder evil force in the world that veers capriciously between its maternal and destructive instincts. Such creatures smother those they hold dear with doting attention and reject those set against her with ruthless cruelty, often times vacillating between these extremes seemingly without prompt. You have chosen a spiteful and suffocating patron, one whose nature you find yourself more and more mimicking. Beings of this sort include; Aradia, mother of witchcraft, Baba Yaga, the evil woman, and Hecate, queen of witches.

Howls and Screeches

You can cast speak with animals at will, without expending a spell slot.

Toil and Trouble

Add Herbalism and Craft - Alchemy to your class skills and gain 1 skill point to spend on each of them.

Additionally you can prepare an enchanted brew during a long rest. When you do select one of the following potions to create, which all smells delicious and sweet.

Everdream. When consumed as a bonus action this tonic puts its drinker under a heavy lethargy as if you had cast the spell sleep with your highest level Pact Magic spell slot.

Hale & Hearty. When consumed as a bonus action this tonic heals its drinker as if you had cast healing word equivalent to your highest level Pact Magic spell slot.

Love Potion. When created you make a number of these potions equal to the highest spell level Pact Magic spell slot you have. When consumed as a bonus action the drinker falls under the effect of a charm person spell as if you had cast it.

These brews only stay potent only a few days. After that they turn putrid, foul and impotent. In game terms, you can have only one of each with at any time.

Baleful Glance

As a reaction, you can apply disadvantage to one attack roll made by a creature you can see within 60 ft against you. Creatures that are immune to being frightened are immune. You must finish a short rest before using this feature again.

Blood of the Coven

When you cast a spell you can call out to your companions to shed blood for your power. One ally within 30 ft can spend their reaction to take 1d6 necrotic damage per level of the spell slot and your spell is empowered. If your spell includes a spell attack roll it gains advantage. If your spell includes a saving throw, the target creatures gain disadvantage on that roll.

Umbral Ward

You can’t be charmed or frightened by fiends or fey, and you are immune to disease.

Walking Hovel, Flying Broom

You can cast the spell animate objects without expending a spell slot. You can use this feature again after a long rest.

Familiar Curse

You can touch an unconscious creature and turn it into any beast with a CR of 1 or lower. That beast then acts as your familiar as if you had cast the find familiar spell. As your familiar, the creature fears your mystical power and cannot summon the courage to do anything to defy your will. This effect ends when someone casts remove curse on the target or you use this feature again. In addition, you must name a condition that, if it comes to pass, functions as if a remove curse spell had been cast on the target. Choose one of the following conditions:

Devotion. If the target has a sincere change of heart and is repentant for his transgression against you, a loyal servant to you for a year and a day, and begs your forgiveness. The Familiar Curse returns if they transgress you again and you have not used the feature again. In this case you do not select a condition.

Sacrifice. If someone who cares for the target sheds tears over them and begs to serve their fate instead. The person who was pleading then takes over the Familiar Curse but you do not select a condition.

True Love. If the target is recognized for who they are and kissed by someone who sincerely loves them and who they sincerely love. The Familiar Curse returns if they betray that person romantically and you have not used the feature again. In this case you do not select a condition.

If the effect ends due to a remove curse the creature reverts to its normal form and is conscious, if the effect ends due to you using this feature again the creature reverts to its normal form and remains unconscious until they are stirred awake or they have slept one hour for every month they lived as your familiar.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Crone to its warlocks.

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Dagon, Prince of Depths

Dagon, also called Prince of the Depths, is the demon lord of the sea, and the sea monsters that dwell in its darkest depths. His symbol is an octopus eye surrounded by a gold disk inscribed with ancient looking runes. His realm is the 89th layer of the Abyss, and it is known as Shadowsea. He dwells in the depths of this Abyssal sea, in an gigantic sunken city known as Ugothanok, a city with architecture so ancient as to be almost alien. Dagon is one of the oldest beings in the Abyss being one of the ancient Qlippoth, the creatures that dwelt in the abyss before demons.

The Prince of Depths is believed to be the largest of all the known demon lords. His appearance is hideously monstrous and somewhat alien, being neither fully fish, eel, or octopus; he is some foul amalgamation of all three.

Dagon is quite active on the Material Plane, regularly sending his demonic minions to the deep oceans of the world to become high priests for evil aquatic monster races. Unfortunately, Dagon’s foul influence is not limited to the ocean depths; he is also revered by some debased coastline societies. In these twisted communities, land dwellers mix with ichthyic beings from the depths, spawning horrible cross-breeds which have no place in the natural order of things.

Depths of Knowledge

You can use your action to focus your awareness on the region around you. For 1 minute you can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within 1 mile of you (or within up to 6 miles if you are on the ocean or underwater): aberrations, celestials and fiends and undead. This feature doesn’t reveal the creature’s’ location or number.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you take a long rest.

Pelagic Tentacle

You are able to conjure a tentacle from the Ocean’s depths to grasp at your foes. As a an action, you may cause a tentacle to burst forth from an extraplanar space and attempt to grasp a creature within 30 ft. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw against your spell save DC. If it fails, the creature’s movement speed becomes 0 as the tentacle grasps them, and they cannot move (except by forced movement or teleportation) until the tentacle dissipates at the beginning of your next turn.

If target is swimming, you can also pull the creature straight down in the water a number of feet equal to five times your proficiency bonus on a failed save.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you take a short rest.

Sign of the Abyss

You can breath underwater and suffer no ill effects from water pressure. You gain darkvison out to 30 ft when underwater and can see clearly through the water up to that distance. You also gain a swim speed equal to your base land speed.

Squamous Hide

The flesh on your arms, legs and body carries scattered patches of scales, slippery and fish-like. You have advantage on any checks you make to resist or escape a grapple, and resistance to cold damage.

When you take damage, except psychic damage, you may use your reaction to reduce the amount taken by your Intelligence modifier.

Drown in the Depths

When you hit a creature with an attack, you can use this feature to instantly transport the target through the Shadowsea. The creature disappears and hurtles through a subaquatic realm. At the end of your next turn, the target returns to the space it previously occupied, or the nearest unoccupied space. If the target does not have a swim speed or the ability to breathe water, it takes 10d10 cold or bludgeoning damage (your choice) as it is exposed to lightless, icy water or the crushing depths.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by Dagon to its warlocks.

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Death

You have touched the boundary between life and death, nearly slipped away into the cold clutches of death. Somehow you were kept from passing that boundary and returned to life. Whether it was a god or another being, it chose you to be in its service. Now your patron requires repayment for this mercy, and only the souls of others will do. Choose wisely, for all who cross your path are marked for collection. It is up to you to safeguard them from that dark plane or to send them there to take your place in the cold embrace of death.

Traits of the Gravebound

Warlocks who have walked the line between life and death and endured the trials of their patron are known as gravebound, as their fate is tied to the inevitable passage of the soul into the beyond. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating the warlock.

Traits

d12	Trait
1	You avoid walking over graves and corpses whenever possible.
2	A scent of freshly-turned earth seems to follow you.
3	Corpses twitch and shift while in your presence.
4	You have a strange affinity for carrion birds.
5	You are overly-eager to discuss death and decay.
6	When you cast a spell, spectral forms can be seen hovering around you.
7	You talk to corpses and expect a response.
8	Your heart beats only a few times per minute.
9	Your shadow sometimes whispers in the voices of the dead.
10	You appear skeletal and decayed in moonlight.
11	Your skin is always cool to the touch.
12	Your blood slowly becomes dust when exposed to air.

Memory of Life

When you cast spells that are restricted to targeting humanoids, such as charm person, you may instead target undead creatures whose CR is equal to or less than half your level.

Rejection of the Crypt

Your refusal to die has left a mark upon you that cannot be denied. You can add your Intelligence modifier to death saving throws, and you gain immunity to effects that would reduce your maximum hit points.

Ghoulish Constitution

Your flesh is filled with the icy chill of the grave. When you are hit with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to steal life’s precious warmth from your attacker. When you do so, you gain resistance to the damage dealt, and the attacker takes cold damage equal to your warlock level. If the attacker is reduced to 0 hit points by this damage, you gain temporary hit points equal to your warlock level. If you already have temporary hit points, increase those temporary hit points by this amount instead.

You can use this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Keeper of Souls

Your gain a measure of control over the spirits that are much to late to their death. Whenever a hostile undead within 60 ft of you is reduced to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your warlock level.

In addition, you gain resistance to necrotic damage and immunity to effects that would kill you instantly without dealing damage.

Reaper of Souls

You are as implacable as the specter of death itself. You no longer age and cannot be magically aged. You gain immunity to the charmed and frightened conditions. When you kill a creature, it cannot be raised as undead or resurrected unless you allow it

Additionally, as a bonus action you can unleash the touch of death onto nearby creatures. Each creature of your choice that is within 30 ft of you takes necrotic damage equal to 2d8 + your Intelligence modifier. Undead that take this damage are turned until the start of your next turn.

Once you use this power, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by Death to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Gravebound warlocks who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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Dispater, Lord of Dis

Dispater is an archdevil and the Lord of the Iron City. He is Hell’s greatest jailer and politician and rules its second layer, Dis. Also known as the Iron Lord, Father of Dis and First King, Dispater is one of the more active rulers of Hell and one of Asmodeus’s closest and long standing allies. His unholy symbol is an iron spike driven into a golden ring with a red and purple crown.

Paranoid and reclusive, he no longer leaves his inner sanctum. He is always stoic, emotionless, and expressionless. He remains this way constantly even in the heat of battle. Dispater is the very definition of caution. He is vigilant beyond compare, weaving a web of impenetrable defenses around himself and his holdings. His plans are far-reaching, taking generations to come to fruition. Yet he is not a craven, frightened fiend who grasps at power out of fear of losing it. He is calm, composed, and charming. He is the perfect gentleman, not given to emotional outbursts or acts of passion. He knows the political games of the Nine Hells, and he’s one of the best players. Dispater has a finger in everything. He has agents scattered throughout the layers, all working toward some convoluted scheme.

Infernal Bulwark

Gain 2 skill points to spent on Armor combat skills.

Aura of Fortitude

Any ally within 20 ft gains a +2 bonus to AC or saving throws (their choice). You do not gain this benefit. At level 14, the radius of this aura extends to 40 ft around you.

Hellish Warding

You can concentrate on up to two abjuration spells at the same time. However, while you are concentrating on both of these spells, you may cast no additional spells, with the exception of cantrips. If you fail a concentration check, you lose both spells.

Iron Flesh

You gain resistance one of the following damage types: piercing, slashing, or bludgeoning. Once you make this choice, it cannot be changed. This invulnerability can only be overcome by a weapon that is both magic and silver.

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The Emergent Mind

You have noticed — and been noticed by — an unfathomable intelligence that permeates a particular locality. Born from sites of strong emotions, tragedies, or even the complex interactions of unwitting participants, these entities whisper subtly of times forgotten through the creak of the floorboard, the din of the city market, the cavernous echo of dripping water, or the shining death of a distant star.

A typical example of these beings may be a sinister haunting, however these entities may also exhibit subtly protective behaviour over the domain they preside, or an innate desire for knowledge of the outside world they cannot walk.

Quirks

Warlocks that have signed a pact with an Emergent Mind are often very esoteric individuals, if they choose to reveal themselves at all. Immersing themselves in a world that others cannot see, they may be seen as eccentric, mad or downright spine chilling in their behaviour. These quirks are provided to inspire some odd behaviours in your Emergent Mind warlock.

Emergent Mind Warlock Quirks

d12	Quirk
1	You often stare off into space, attempting to perceive something that may or may not be there.
2	You are obsessed with finding meaning in stars, comets and clouds.
3	You treat anything with a long history with religious reverence and respect.
4	Instead of nervous, you are excited and inquisitive of anything that goes bump in the night.
5	You tend to not enjoy the company of any one particular person but appreciate the bustle of society as a whole.
6	You have a deep appreciation of any local folklore, down to the most minute details, but scorn formally written historical records.
7	You naturally appear aloof to others and avoid contact unless you make an effort to present yourself.
8	You often have staring matches with furniture, waiting for them to make their first move.
9	Your silhouette shifts and changes when viewed from afar.
10	People often see a brief glimpse of a figure looming behind you.
11	You sometimes hear an entity speaking to you, between the words of others.
12	Foreboding omens alway seem to occur whenever you say something of great portent or dire consequence.

Haunted

Weird occurrences and events just happen all around you. You learn the minor illusion and thaumaturgy cantrips, and can cast them without any material, somatic, or verbal components. They do not count against your number of cantrips known.

Silent Keeper

Your patron grants you the knowledge to remain out of sight and mind, as they have for aeons. Add Stealth to your class skills and gain 1 skill point to spend on it.

Visions of Aeons

You can cause painful memories or visions of stories untold to flash before the mind of any creature that strikes you. When you take damage from another creature that you can see, you can force the target creature to make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC as a reaction. On a failed save, the creature is both frightened and charmed condition by you until the end of their next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Unspoken Guardian

You become a timeless emissary for your patron, speaker for that which does not, and guardian of their secrets. For every 10 years that pass, you age only 1 year, and you cannot be magically aged.

In addition, creatures that attempt to speak your name or describe you in any way must succeed with a Charisma saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failure, words escape them, and while they may remember you clearly, they cannot name, describe or draw you in any manner for 24 hours. On a successful save they are immune to this effect for 24 hours. You may designate any creature that you have met to be unaffected by this feature.

Spirit of Place

You can merge with the local consciousness of reality until the start of your next turn as a bonus action. You vanish, no longer occupying your current space and you gain truesight out to 300 ft, which ignores all forms of cover. All existing conditions and effects on you are suspended and you are immune to all damage for this duration. At the start of your next turn, you must choose an open space anywhere within this 300 ft radius to appear again.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Emergent Mind to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Emergent Mind patron warlocks who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Eternal Citadel

You’ve made a pact with the Eternal Citadel, a massive yet empty bastion that seems to wander between worlds, collecting travelers and then releasing them again once they agree to serve. The Eternal Citadel communicates through the silent transferal of emotions and feelings - an instinctual sense to follow a course of action, no matter how enigmatic it may seem. An unknown number of people have sworn their allegiance to the Citadel, and few ever meet, but they all serve the same end, known or otherwise: preservation against the forces that seek destruction.

Preservation Without Regard

The Eternal Citadel is a force of protection and stasis, seeking to keep the world exactly as it is. However, once a new change has occurred and has become finalized, it will immediately shift course and seek to maintain the new status quo. One of the few things that it does not oppose in any way is the construction of architecture and the creation of permanent things that are designed to last for eternity. The subtle consciousness within the Citadel welcomes the creation of more eternal bastions, though few are ever so grand or so imposing, and none match it in power.

Defenders and Guardians

Those who have sworn themselves to the Eternal Citadel are not known for welcoming change and are often highly conflicted in their quests. They seek to end the forces of ruination, constantly working against powers of destruction and decay. Warlocks who follow the call of the Citadel are known for their patience and determination at seeking their goals. Many are known as grand architects, builders, and warriors, creating fortresses in mere days and dealing death to the ruinous powers from behind their new fortifications.

The Displeasure of the Silent

The Citadel does not speak, but communicates instead in pure sensations of desire and belief. The subtle consciousness of the place is not bound by the mortal constraint of time, but it does know that the minds of others are vulnerable to its passing. Warlocks who turn against the pact and shatter the deal are often the first to be granted what some call the Citadel’s darkest curse: false immortality.

Tales are told of individuals who grow old, feeble, and weak. Their minds suffer under the weight of eons, trapping them in a state of helpless confusion. Their bodies become thin and skeletal no matter how much they eat, and their breathing becomes slow and painful. Yet, no matter how agonized or miserable they are, they cannot die. The Citadel will not allow it. They must be preserved, for they have been marked by that shining and terrible fortress.

Traits of the Timeless

Warlocks who have made a pact with the Eternal Citadel are often known as timeless, and are known for their strangeness and unusual habits, given many are stolen from other worlds. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after performing one of your duties as a servant of the Citadel.

Trait

d10	Trait
1	You tend to assess doorways before walking through them.
2	You are hesitant to destroy any objects.
3	You are anxious when outdoors.
4	You talk to structures and expect an answer.
5	You often stroke stone as though it were a pet.
6	Your skin appears to be made of marble, in the right light.
7	Your skin is always cool to the touch.
8	Your skin tone slowly adapts to appear identical to any stone that you are touching while you are asleep.
9	When you cast a spell, a soft halo of light forms around your body.
10	Your facial structure is oddly statuesque and your hair remains in a single shape, no matter how hard you try to change it.

Righteous Guardian

Gain the ability to shield yourself and others from harm. Whenever you or an ally within 30 ft takes damage, you can use your reaction to create a mystical barrier of energy. The amount of damage taken is reduced by half your warlock level + your Intelligence modifier, after applying resistances or vulnerabilities.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Force of Preservation

Gain the ability to fortify yourself further. Whenever you take damage, you can use your reaction to become immune to the damage from that effect or attack, and gain temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

Builder of Walls

Your connection with the Eternal Citadel deepens, enabling you to call upon it for defense. You learn two spells with the word “wall” in their name that are of 5th level or lower. They do not count against your total spells known. You can’t choose wall of force as one of these spells.

You can cast one of these two spells once without expending a spell slot. Once you do so, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Bound to the Aeons

Your oath to the Eternal Citadel becomes irrevocable. You no longer age, and cannot be magically aged. You also do not require food or water.

Additionally, you can call down an onslaught of timeless power from the central spire of the Citadel to burn away the souls of your foes. During your turn, you can use an action to choose a location that you can see within 200 ft. An infinitely tall 10 ft radius cylinder expands in that space, illuminating it with bright otherworldly light. At the start of your next turn, a beam of golden energy shoots down from the sky, and creatures within the area must make a Charisma saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they take 7d6 radiant damage, 7d6 force damage, and are blinded until the start of your next turn. If they succeed, they take half as much damage and are not blinded. This beam passes through obstacles without damaging them.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Eternal Citadel to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Eternal Citadel patron warlocks who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Fallen Exile

Stars beyond measure populate the void beyond the world while celestial spheres circle above. You have met with one of their number, cast down by the many cold and unfeeling suns above for the sin of falling in love with a mortal. As punishment, the spiteful and envious stars shined their pale fury upon the paramour, destroying them utterly. The Exile now wanders the world it has been cast upon, appearing as a shimmer of light. Its goal is known only to those whom it trusts, and it grants power to them as it is powerless itself, stripped of interaction with the mortal world for its hubris.

It endlessly searches, seeking either a soul of great kindness to help it find the knowledge and power to resurrect its fallen paramour or one unscrupulous enough to wage war upon the very stars themselves. The light shines, but that fire can be cold and merciless, like the wrath of a love destroyed.

Traits of the Exiled

Warlocks who have taken the purpose of the Fallen Exile to heart are known as the exiled, as they often forsake societal norms and boundaries in their quest. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after serving the goal of the Fallen Exile.

Traits

d8	Traits
1	You never seem to blink.
2	Your eyes appear to contain a field of stars.
3	You glow faintly when light is cast upon you.
4	Your blood slowly becomes motes of light when exposed to air.
5	Your hair becomes white, like the color of a star.
6	Your skin appears to be made of marble, in the right light.
7	When you cast a spell, a nimbus of light forms around you.
8	Sparks and ribbons of light trail from your fingertips whenever you gesture.

Cosmic Conduit

The Exile’s duality of betrayal and compassion infuses your spellcasting, enabling you to reach into the world in the same way that it does. Whenever you cast a spell using a warlock spell slot, you can choose to cast the spell as though you were located in the space of an enemy or ally that you can see within 60 ft. When you cast from the space of an enemy, they take 1d6 radiant damage. When you cast from the space of an ally, they gain 1d6 temporary hit points.

Stardust Crusader

The Exile grants you a portion of the power it stole from the other stars as it fell, allowing access to their spirits. Choose two of the following Dawn constellations.

Whenever you gain a new warlock level, you can change your Dawn constellations.

Under the Night Sky

You wrest power from the Exile’s true foes with ease. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can exchange your chosen Constellations for different ones. Additionally, you gain resistance to radiant damage.

Astrological Savant

You have finally usurped the celestial spheres. You can choose two of the following Dusk Constellations and can exchange them using your Under the Night Sky feature.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Fallen exile to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to warlocks of the Fallen, who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Fiend

You have made a pact with a fiend from the lower planes of existence, a being whose aims are evil, even if you strive against those aims. Such beings desire the corruption or destruction of all things, ultimately including you. Fiends powerful enough to forge a pact include demon lords such as Demogorgon, Orcus, Fraz’Urb-luu, and Baphomet; archdevils such as Asmodeus, Dispater, Mephistopheles, and Belial; pit fiends and balors that are especially mighty; and ultroloths and other lords of the yugoloths.

Dark One’s Blessing

When you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier + your warlock level.

Dark One’s Own Luck

You can call on your patron to alter fate in your favor. When you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can use this feature to add a d10 to your roll. You can do so after seeing the initial roll but before any of the roll’s effects occur.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Fiendish Resilience

You can choose one damage type when you finish a long rest. You gain resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature. Damage from magical weapons or silver weapons ignores this resistance.

Hurl Through Hell

When you hit a creature with an attack, you can use this feature to instantly transport the target through the lower planes. The creature disappears and hurtles through a nightmare landscape.

At the end of your next turn, the target returns to the space it previously occupied, or the nearest unoccupied space. If the target is not a fiend, it takes 10d10 psychic damage as it reels from its horrific experience.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Fiend to its warlocks.

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The Great Old One

Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known only in legends. Its motives are incomprehensible to mortals, and its knowledge so immense and ancient that even the greatest libraries pale in comparison to the vast secrets it holds. The Great Old One might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your magic from it. Entities of this type include Ghaunadar, That Which Lurks, Tharizdun the Chained God, Dendar the Night Serpent, Zargon the Returner, Great Cthulhu and other unfathomable beings.

Awakened Mind

Your alien knowledge gives you the ability to touch the minds of other creatures. You can communicate telepathically with any creature you can see within 30 ft. You don’t need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language.

Visions of Horror

You can flood the minds of those who assault you with terrifying, incomprehensible images from your patron’s realm. When a creature within 60 ft damages you, you can use your reaction to force the creature to make an Intelligence saving throw against your warlock spell save DC.

On a failed save, the creature takes psychic damage equal to 1d10 + half your warlock level and is frightened for 1 minute. A frightened creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn’t frightened.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Labyrinthine Conundrum

The outer layers of your mind become alien in scope - becoming indecipherable to those who would plunder it, while revealing the true nature of the world around you. You are immune to any effect that would sense your emotions, read your thoughts, or determine you are lying, unless you allow it.

Additionally, you can use your action to open your mind to the truth of the world. For 10 minutes, you gain truesight out to 60 ft. Once you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Create Thrall

You gain the ability to infect a humanoid’s mind with the alien magic of your patron. You can use your action to touch an incapacitated humanoid. That creature is charmed by you until a remove curse spell is cast on it, the charmed condition is removed from it, or you use this feature again.

You can communicate telepathically with the charmed creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence. The charmed creature regards you as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the creature isn’t under your control, it takes your requests or actions in the most favorable way it can.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Great Old One to its warlocks.

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Hesperia, The Serpent Empress

Situated within her palace of gold and turquoise, the Serpent Empress sleeps in serene silence, guiding her slaves about their secret business. Envious and vain, the Empress personifies greed and avarice in the hearts of man. Jealousy, spite, and simple pride have driven her servants to her side. She whispers in a sibilant voice, speaking of wealth and power promised but so rarely delivered. The sins she offers are subtle at first, but grow in style and salaciousness with every slow cycle of the hourglass. You’ve assigned yourself to her service, and sworn fealty to the Serpent Empress in exchange for a sliver of her supreme strength.

Traits of the Imperial Courtier

Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after serving the in schemes of the Empress.

Traits

d8	Quirk
1	You speak with sibilant syllables.
2	You insist on eating your food raw.
3	Your irises are shaped like those of a snake.
4	Your blood is dark green or black.
5	Your teeth become fanged and sharp.
6	When you cast a spell, your eyes glow with a colorful radiance, and shimmering scales cover your skin.
7	You frequently wear snakes upon your body.
8	You have a tendency to not blink.

Blessing of the Empress

You receive the favor of your patron. You gain advantage on saving throws against poison and effects that inflict the poisoned condition. You can speak to snakes, serpents, and other reptiles as though you were under the effects of the speak with animals spell.

Whenever you cast a spell that has a verbal component, you can suppress the senses of those around you. Choose one creature within 30 ft that can hear you. Your spellcasting is silent to that creature, and it has disadvantage on its next Wisdom, Intelligence, or Charisma check within 1 minute.

Hair of Snakes

You can cause a swarm of serpents to grow from your head as a bonus action and they remain until you dismiss them. While they are out, you can see through the eyes of these serpents. As long as the serpents can see, you have advantage on Perception checks, gain low-light vision out to 30 ft and gain immunity to the blinded condition.

While within 10 ft of a creature, you can use your action to have your serpents whisper a sinful secret to the creature. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If it fails, it gains the charmed condition until the end of your next turn or until it takes damage.

Toxic Blood

Your veins run with venom. You gain resistance to poison damage and immunity to the poisoned condition. Additionally, poison damage you deal treats immunity to poison as resistance to poison. Creatures immune to the poisoned condition are considered to be not immune, but they do have advantage on any saving throw against the poison.

Gaze of the Goddess

Your patron looks from your eyes and exerts her supreme power through you. As an action choose one creature within 30 ft. The target is paralyzed for one minute. If the target takes damage, the effect ends. If the target is immune to paralysis, it takes 3d10 psychic damage and is knocked prone.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by Hesperia to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Serpent Empress patron warlocks who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Hive

Through circumstances desperate or sinister, you have found yourself sworn into the service of the swarms of a hivemind or perhaps an alien entity that presides over them. Through your benefactor’s guidance, you have learned to weave the discordant voices of thousands into the will of one mind, and use this power to sow chaos in your wake on the battlefield.

The intentions of these cunning and enigmatic yet bestial beings are incredibly difficult to glean, even for one with such a unique bond as yourself. Their directives may range from instinctual to frighteningly intelligent; their motives unfathomably deep or horrifyingly base.

Quirks

Warlocks of a Hive patron are often regarded as frightening individuals who spend much of their time living amongst creatures others would consider vermin. This stigma is often well justified, as they commonly exhibit disturbing behaviours imparted by the influence of the hive.

d6	Quirk
1	Every now and then, a bug will fly out of your mouth while you are talking. This is perfectly normal.
2	You tend to attract insects regardless of your state of hygiene.
3	If one looks closely, the surface of your eyes appear segmented.
4	Your skin is covered in stings, bite marks and scars.
5	You often find yourself distracted, observing the behaviour of insects.
6	You are disappointed that you don’t find rotting meat palatable, as it smells delightful.

Children of the Swarm

You can summon the young of your hive to feed on your fallen enemies. When you slay a creature, you can cause a ravenous cloud of insects to erupt from its body as a reaction. Any hostile creature that begins their turn or moves adjacent to the target corpse suffers magical piercing damage equal to your Intelligence modifier + half your warlock level.

The swarm will disperse after 1 minute, or if the target corpse is destroyed, revived, raised or if you use this feature again on another slain creature. This feature can’t be used on any creature that is not made of organic matter, such as constructs and elementals.

Gnashing Swarm

You can send out the swarm to harry your foes. As an action, your swarm appears as a 10 ft radius cloud within 60 ft of you. The swarm remains for 1 minute, making the area heavily obscured for creatures other than you. If an enemy creature enters the swarm the first time on a turn or starts it’s turn in it, it takes 3d4 piercing damage. Creatures that are reduced to 0 hit points from this damage are affected by Children of the Swarm.

As a bonus action, you can move the center of the swarm 20 ft. A wind of at least 10 miles per hour disperses the swarm and ends the effect. You can’t use this ability until you complete a long rest.

Hive Mind

You and your swarm’s consciousness have melded together, for better or worse. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and resistance against poison and psychic damage.

Additionally, if you make a saving throw against being charmed or frightened, you can choose to automatically succeed instead of rolling. You regain this feature after a short rest.

One of Many

You can discorporate into a swarm as a bonus action. You can spend up to 1 minute in this form however the time spent does not need to be contiguous. You regain all expended time in this form when you finish a long rest. This effect is similar to the gaseous form spell except it does not require concentration or components, your flight speed is 60 feet, and you can freely discard this form without using an action.

You can also choose to unleash a second massive swarm as an action when you discard this form. Every hostile creature within 15 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed saving throw a creature suffers 4d10 magical piercing damage and takes half damage on a success.

This area is considered difficult terrain and heavily obscured only for hostile creatures until the end of your next turn. Once you use this second swarm, you can’t do so again until you have finished a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations have been added as additions for the Hive patron.

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Jubilex, the Formless One

The demon lord of poison and ooze. Of all the demon lords, Jubilex is perhaps the one least concerned with maintaining a cult, it’s debatable whether Jubilex even realizes he has worshipers. Certainly, those who worship him tend not to think of him as an entity to be venerated as much as a source of power. Yet despite the Faceless Lord’s passing disinterest in his faithful, he certainly knows of the Material Plane and enjoys absorbing the bodies of unwilling mortals into his protoplasmic bulk.

You have formed a symbiotic relationship with your patron, by integrating a portion of your patron’s slimy body within you, which in turn grants you supernatural power that you now wield. Slowly but surely, you are becoming one with your patron, but not before you channel its power for your great ambitions.

Quirks

The power of Jubilex touches more than just the soul. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock.

d8	Quirk
1	You track footprints of slime wherever you go while outdoors. You can suppress this when you notice it.
2	Your blood slowly becomes slime when exposed to air.
3	You have a strange fondness for gelatin.
4	Your heart feels like it wanders around in your chest.
5	You tend to wiggle in an unnatural manner.
6	You sometimes confuse people for corpses you’ve consumed.
7	You appear wet and sticky.
8	Your eyes are acid green with purple flecks.

Amorphous Step

Your form becomes more flexible and fluid. You can move through a space as narrow as a foot wide without squeezing, and you have resistance to falling damage.

Recovered Memories

You learn to dissolve the bodies of the dead and learn from their lives. As an action while standing adjacent to a corpse, you can produce an iridescent acid that consumes the corpse over the course of 1 minute. Once the process has finished, you can reabsorb the acid to access the creature’s memories. You gain information about the creature’s last 48 hours alive and the most important memories from their final year of life.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Side Splitting

Your body becomes somewhat… slimy. Whenever you suffer damage, you can use your reaction to divide into a Medium swarm of Tiny oozes, gaining resistance to damage from the attack.

Your hit points remain the same, and you function as a single unified swarm that occupies the same space as a Medium creature. While in this state, you can’t take actions other than the Dash action, your movement speed is halved, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, you gain immunity to acid and poison damage, you don’t provoke opportunity attacks, and you can move through any space as narrow as 1 inch without squeezing. You can return to your normal form at will without using an action, provided there is room to do so.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest. Starting at 10th level, you can use this feature at will as an action. Using this feature as a reaction is still limited to once per long rest.

Acidic Body

You are able to absorb some of the impact from physical blows and acid due to your acidic, gelatinous nature. You gain resistance to acid damage and nonmagical bludgeoning damage.

Additionally, whenever a creature starts its turn in a grapple with you, you can choose to have it take 2d8 acid damage.

Cellular Division

When you are hit by an attack you can choose to split your form in two. The two resulting forms are considered a size smaller than your normal size and each have hit points equal to half your amount when you spilt. On each of your turns, you can choose to use your movement and action with either one of the two forms, but not both.

After 1 minute, if the two forms move more than 60 feet from each other, or until one of the forms drops to 0 hit points, the two forms merge back into your normal self with your hit points equal to the current hit points of the two individual forms added together.

Once you have used this feature, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by Jubilex to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to warlocks of the Formless One, who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Keeper of the Depths

There are ancient things that dwell within the darkness of the ocean, watching those who live upon the surface of the world with curiosity and envy. Among them, there is a creature known as the Keeper of the Depths – a hulking tentacled crustacean of great wisdom and greater madness that stares into the night sky with greed, for the light of the sun is painful to its sensitive eyes. Thus, it waits for a time when thunderstorms and squalls drench the shores and cloud the skies to emerge, ever hungry for the secrets once thought lost.

An Accumulation of Ages

The Keeper is a jealous lord, ever vigilant for another prize. Ships carrying artifacts and treasures often draw its attention, as it will invade the dreams of the captain and crew to drive them into its clutches. The beast calls forth storms and rise from its home, grasping the ship and dragging it down into the deep to add to its collection. Its lair is littered with countless shipwrecks and ruins of civilizations long lost to time, and it decorates itself with the weapons of those sent to slay it and the treasures they sought to protect.

The Keeper uses magic to preserve the objects that cannot bear the terrible pressure of the ocean depths and places the pieces of its collection that are still living in suspended animation, keeping them alive and aware of their surroundings even as they are trapped and unable to act, blinded by the dark. The horror of this is beyond description, driving even stalwart souls mad.

Harvester of Dreams

Those who survive but are not worthy of collection are marked by the Keeper, who entraps them in servitude by forcing them to relive death after terrible death in their dreams, only relenting when they agree to serve. It erases the memories of the torments they have suffered, sealing them behind an accursed black mark hidden upon one’s soul. Nevertheless, it will continue to seek out these unfortunate chosen in their sleeping hours, taking knowledge from their minds in exchange for information relating to the goals it wishes them to pursue.

Dreams of the Deep

The Keeper’s reach is more than a mere invasion. Once the Keeper discovers something interesting in one, it will begin to dig, burrowing into the consciousness of the unfortunate victim. Tentacles of unearthly energy pour forth from its dream self into the surrounding ego, changing and twisting existing memories as it extracts what it desires.

Those who have experienced it describe it as being like suffering an injury and finding out that one’s bones are actually endless teeth stacked one atop another, merged into the shape that they should be but completely wrong nevertheless. Such is the horror that the Keeper inflicts, and yet some still go to it in supplication, for there is power in the twisting marks it makes upon ones soul.

Traits of the Dweller

The Keeper takes more than just restful sleep; it steals humanity and one’s own sense of self as well. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after serving the goals of the Keeper of the Depths.

d8	Quirk
1	You sometimes talk in your sleep, whispering terrible secrets about things unknown to you.
2	You appear oddly wet at all times, even when dry.
3	Your skin becomes rubbery and cold.
4	Your heartbeat can’t be felt, only heard.
5	Your blood slowly becomes saltwater when exposed to air and smells like dead fish.
6	A scent of ocean air seems to follow you.
7	When you cast a spell, dark tentacles seem to reach up from under your skin before disappearing.
8	You sometimes ask personal questions instead of offering greetings.

The Pact

You’ve made a pact with an ancient oceanic entity known as the Keeper of the Depths. As life teems within the seas, so do the secrets of the forgotten ages – sunken cities, ships lost at sea, and treasures unimaginable gone to the darkest currents that churn with horrible tentacles and creatures from nightmare. The Keeper watches over all this hidden knowledge, and harvests ever more in its endless pursuit of the unspoken secrets of the universe. In the deepest crevices where sunlight has never been seen, all oceans are one to the Keeper of the Depths, and its desire is insatiable.

Secrets of the Lost

Your patron visits you in your dreams, stealing fragments of your experiences in exchange for hidden knowledge. Whenever you finish a long rest, you gain 2 skills points to spend on non-combat skills. You have these skills until you finish another long rest.

The Depths of Knowledge

You can perform a 10 minute ritual to focus your awareness on the region around you. For 1 minute you can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within 1 mile of you (or within up to 6 miles if you are on the ocean or underwater): aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. This feature doesn’t reveal the creature’s’ location or number.

Sailor’s Nightmare

You can curse your enemies, using the weight of ethereal water to drag them into the sea’s embrace. As a bonus action, you can curse a creature within 60 ft for 1 minute. While the creature is afflicted by this curse, it cannot jump or fly, and it treats all terrain as difficult terrain. If the creature is flying or swimming, at the start of each of its turns it must succeed at a Strength saving throw or descend 60 ft.

After you use this ability, you must complete a long rest before you may use it again.

Madness of the Deep

The Keeper’s gaze looms over you. Whenever you take damage, you can use your reaction to unleash a wave of black ink to cloud the air in a 10 ft radius of your current location for one minute, heavily obscuring the area. Hostile creatures that end their turn within the area must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they are frightened until the start of your next turn and must attempt to escape the cloud.

Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Hunger for Knowledge

You can summon the terrible maw of the Keeper to appear before you as an action. A massive beak surrounded by tentacles appears and attempts to grab a target of your choice within 30 ft. When a creature is targeted, it must make a Strength saving throw against your warlock spell save DC to shake off the grasp of the horror. If the target fails, it is dragged into the beak and bitten, taking 6d10 piercing damage and 6d10 psychic damage. If this is enough to reduce the target to 0 hit points, you can choose to have them be swallowed whole by the mouth, consuming them. Either way, the maw then immediately disappears.

Once you summon this maw, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

If the maw consumes a creature using this feature, your patron visits you in your dreams during your next long rest and grants you a boon in return for the sacrifice. Choose any spell of 5th level or lower from the warlock or wizard spell lists. You can cast this spell twice using a warlock spell slot, after which it is lost. The spell is also lost if you sacrifice a new creature and select a new spell using this feature.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Keeper of the deep to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to warlocks of the Keeper, who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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Levistus, Lord of Stygia

Levistus, Lord of the Fifth, is the imprisoned devil prince who rules Stygia, the fifth layer of the Nine Hells. Mountains of dark ice tower over the frozen sea of Stygia. At its center, a quarter-mile deep, rests Prince Levistus. He works through influence and avatars, unable to move in his possibly-eternal ice prison.

Charming, bold, and ruthlessly ambitious, Levistus remains confident and courageous, despite his imprisonment in ice. He is a rake and a bounder, espousing the eternal truth of betrayal, of how it is inevitable that all creatures violate whatever trust is put in them.

Levistus followers are thugs, rogues, and swashbuckling bravos generally in pursuit of some great betrayal or act of vengeance.

Bladereaver

Once per turn, when you deal damage with a finesse weapon, add 1d8 cold damage. If you are wielding a rapier, you add 1d8 + your Intelligence instead.

One With The Blizzard

Gain resistance to cold damage and your movement speed increases by 5 ft. Additionally, any spell you cast that would normally deal fire damage now does cold damage instead. Furthermore, your movement is not slowed in rough terrain caused by snow or ice.

Duelist

Gain 3 superiority and have access to the Parry and Riposte martial maneuvers described in the Fighter class description.

Spell Parry

If you are wielding a magic weapon, as a reaction you can reflect a spell cast at you back onto it’s caster, if you are the single target. Use the spell’s original spell attack modifier or spell save DC against the caster, as appropriate.

After you use this ability, you must complete a long rest before you may use it again.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by Levistus to its warlocks.

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The Monstrosity

Far away from the domains of mortals, out past the borders where civilization gives way to the great unknown, there dwell monsters titanic and unimaginable. Each of these mighty creatures, whatever they might be, have the power within them to end an empire and leave only rubble and ashes in their wake. Forgotten by most, these colossal beasts live on in fables and legends of the dark times when they ruled all the land, and mortals were as insects before them.

But some still remember their apocalyptic might. Few mortals, though others would think them mad or foolish, seek to master the cataclysmic potential of these creatures. Often this takes the form of drinking a specially enchanted tincture of the creature’s blood, infusing oneself with the creature’s magical energy, or consuming one of its eggs or offspring. The rush of power these mortals wield can be immense and overwhelming, both to themselves and others, and many lose themselves in their quest to take on the mantle of monstrosities that would give even the gods pause.

This power can be obtained from entities such as the tarrasque, a neothelid, a ha-naga, a behemoth or gargantuan creature (such as a gorilla, reptile, moth or similar), or Dendar the Night Serpent.

Monstrous Mark

Warlocks that tread this path almost always carry some mark of the power they have taken into themselves. Decide with your DM how this mark manifests, or roll on the Monstrous Mark table.

d8	Mark
1	Your head has long, curled horns that end in spikes.
2	Your teeth are sharpened and serrated, like a shark’s.
3	Your eyes have vertical irises in an all-green sclera.
4	The bones in your arms and legs are too long, and you stoop when you walk.
5	You are exceptionally quick to anger, and snarl when you talk.
6	Your skin is rough, coated in scales or leathery warts.
7	You always feel hungry for exceptionally raw meat.
8	You unthinkingly, deliberately destroy objects.

Destructive Potential

You carry the destructive power of your patron within all that you do. Any of your spells or attacks deal double damage to structures and objects that are not worn or carried by a creature.

Monstrous Roar

You can release the primal fury of your patron in a single, terrifying roar. As a bonus action or as a reaction when you are the target of an attack, you may bellow out a horrifying roar that rattles your opponents.

Any hostile creatures within 30 ft that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC. A creature that fails this saving throw is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

If you used this ability as a reaction and the creature that targeted you fails its save, that condition confers disadvantage on the triggering attack roll.

After you use this ability, you must complete a short rest before you may use it again.

Unstoppable Rage

The rage of your patron pushes you onward, making you an unstoppable force of destruction. When you would be reduced to 0 hit points, you may use your reaction to regain a number of hit points equal to your warlock level.

After you use this ability, you must complete a short rest before you may use it again.

Spawn of the Monstrosity

You can allow the might and fury of your patron to overwhelm your physical form, causing a transformation into a gigantic monster in their likeness.

You can use an action on your turn to undergo the transformation, which lasts for one minute, until you end it with another action, or until your new form reaches 0 hit points. For the duration, you replace all of your statistics with those of a monstrosity spawn, listed here. You are unable to speak or cast spells while in this form.

When you transform, choose whether any equipment and items you are holding or wearing become a part of this new form (vanishing from view), or drop to the ground at your feet. If you are in an area that is not big enough to contain your new form and that would not be immediately destroyed as a result of your transformation, this ability fails to function, expending the action you used, but not your usage of this ability.

When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. If you revert as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form.

After you use this ability, you must complete a long rest before you may use it again.

Monstrous Variations

The colossal monstrosities that threaten the world are as varied as they are frightening, and have at their disposal many different methods of destruction. The monstrosity spawn presented here is intended to be a neutral mid-point between many various monstrosity patrons, and can be potentially modified (with your DM’s permission) to better represent your individual patron, using the following options. Once you decide upon the features of your monstrosity spawn form, you may not change them at a later time.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations can be chosen by warlocks with the Monstrosity patron.

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Oberon, the Wild Huntsman

Oberon, an unrivaled hunter and woodland warrior, is Titania’s lover and frequently her foe. Oberon is attuned to every bough of each tree and each branch of every stream in the forests of the Feywild. If Oberon has a weakness, it is the wild nature of his heart. His mood swings like a weathervane in a storm. This powerfully-built horned hunter leads the Wyld Hunt, a collection of powerful fey lords and beasts cursed with a bitter chill that can only be shaken by the blood of the prey.

It journeys between the Realms of Faerie and the Mortal Plane seeking the greatest of challenges and the weakest of souls to harvest. You’ve encountered the Wyld Hunt and survived where others have fallen, and in return your life has been spared and your bargain made. You’ve been granted a place at Oberon’s table and the services of his tireless steeds and hunting hounds.

Traits of the Rider

Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after slaying a beast in the Huntsman’s name.

d8	Quirk
1	You enjoy the outdoors immensely.
2	You harry your foes before killing them.
3	You boast of your kills at every opportunity.
4	You take a trophy from everything you hunt.
5	You frequently mock weaknesses you see.
6	You count actions over words.
7	You love the taste of meat.
8	Antlers sprout from your head.

Huntsman’s Disciple

Add Survival to your class skills and gain 1 skill point to spend on it. When you encounter the tracks of a creature, you can summon a spiritual hound to lead you, granting you advantage on checks to track your quarry. It can track targets over water and by scent. The spiritual hound disappears if you roll initiative. In addition, you may choose to leave tracks or not in mundane terrain.

Pale Rider

You learn to summon a loyal steed from the Huntsman’s stable. You can cast find steed without expending a spell slot. When cast in this way, its casting time is one action, and you can choose to have the steed appear underneath you, moving you instantly to the saddle.

While you are mounted on the summoned steed, you can choose to take any damage that would be dealt to the steed. When summoned, your steed appears with hit points equal to the amount it had when you dismissed it. While summoned, your steed recovers all lost hit points whenever you finish a long rest.

If your steed has been reduced to 0 hit points, it can’t be summoned again until you finish a long rest.

Hounds of the Huntsman

Gain resistance to cold damage and you are not subject to exhaustion gained from cold environments or high altitudes. You also learn to call the Huntsman’s favored servants.

As an action, you can summon a pack of the Huntsman’s hounds to an empty space within 30 ft. The hounds use the stat block provided with this subclass. The pack understands your commands and obeys you without hesitation, acting on your initiative. Its hit point maximum is increased by an amount equal to your warlock level. When your pack is reduced to 0 hit points, it vanishes into frozen mist and can’t be resummoned until you finish a long rest. You can dismiss your pack at any time as an action.

Cull the Weak

You learn to exploit any sign of weakness from your target. When you hit a creature with a weapon or spell attack, that creature has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a spell you cast before the end of your next turn.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by Oberon to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Wild Huntsman warlocks who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Pharaoh

In cavernous tombs and unknown temples, or upon gilded thrones backed by arcane might, are those who would choose the moniker of God-King. These mighty beings hold at their beck and call the forgotten magics of the wastes, the untold power of curses, souls, and dark sacrifices, and are willing to share with those who would enforce their will.

Beings such as truly ancient mummy lords, djinn, the Sorcerer-Kings of Athas, or gods such as Set, Anubis, Zann, Al-Ishtus, Apep, Nyarlathotep, Sobek, or Zoser may all make a God-King pact with mortals who seek them out. You, though either luck, determination, or great misfortune, have come under the sway of one of these old masters, and they grant you a portion of their immense power.

Pharaoh’s Will

The pharaohs of old are not as capricious with their gifts as other patrons may be, and demand much from you. When you make this pact, you gain a bond dependent on the pharaoh to which you are bound. Choose one from the list below, or roll 1d10 to determine randomly:

	Patron	Bond
1	Ra	I glory in the sun, and will endeavor to bring my great and terrible light to all corners of the world.
2	Isis	I seek magic in all its forms, and will stop at nothing to gain a new trinket or bauble.
3	Thoth	Knowledge is power, and I seek to be more powerful than all. No scrap of knowledge shall be kept from my grasp.
4	Bast	Felines are divine beings, and deserve my supplication. I will guide everyone to this great bit of truth.
5	Horus	I am king of kings, lord of lords. I bow to no man, and all will one day bow to me.
6	Sekhmet	This world is impure, forsaken, dying. I seek to revel in its destruction, purified by the terrible light of the sun.
7	Hathor	Joy and mirth are the greatest of all miracles, and I seek to indulge in every form of delight, mortal or otherwise.
8	Seth	The great and vast desert holds the secret to true immortality. I will show all this secret, and cover the world with sand.
9	Anubis	Life is a stain upon the vast majesty of creation. I will remove those weak many who can still die, and create a new paradise for the immortal.
10	Amun	Though I granted them the whole of their world, the mortals have forgotten me. I will show them the true face of their god, and force them to their knees in reverence.

Pharaoh’s Curse

Pacts made with a God-King always carry a persistent price that the mortal must pay in exchange for power. This price, known as the Curse, is always levied upon the mortal by the God-King themself, who usually pick a suitable Curse for both the strengths and foibles of the mortal they are empowering. It is recommended you work with your DM to choose a Curse for your character, but you may also determine one randomly by rolling on the God-King’s Curse table included here.

1d10	God-King’s Curse
1	The skin on your entire body is unnaturally dry and textured like cracked earth
2	The pupils of your eyes are shaped like a goat’s
3	You always appear to be ailing from a specific disease, but suffer no ill effects
4	Scarabs crawl underneath your skin occasionally, causing moving, visible lumps
5	Your body appears gaunt and skeletal, as if you have been withered by age
6	You must bind your arms with treated bandages, or the pores begin to weep viscous black ichor
7	You have a snake’s tongue, and occasionally punctuate words with a hiss
8	You have a persistent, wracking cough, sometimes coughing up live maggots
9	Your fevered mind sees figments and mirages, each relating to your patron’s will
10	The only food you can hold down is fine desert sand

Master of the Dunes

Your patron imbues you with the hardiness to not only survive in the desert, but thrive. You no longer require food or water, nor do you suffer any ill effects from dehydration. In addition you gain the Survival - Desert survival skill and its prerequisite.

Twisting Sands

When you suffer damage, you can use your reaction to transform yourself into a whirling cloud of sand. This works as if you had used the gaseous form spell. You can return to your normal form at will without using an action, provided there is room to do so.

After you use this ability, you must complete a long rest before you may use it again.

If you use this ability while in a desert or over sand, you may do so at will as an action, and gain a movement speed twice your speed.

Starting at 10th level, you can use this feature at will as an action anywhere. Using this feature as a reaction is still limited to once per long rest.

Shaper of the Sands

The pharaohs grant you the ability to shape the sands to your whims. As an action, you may cast the fabricate spell without using a spell slot, though you may only use this ability on sand. You may create objects and structures out of sand, sandstone, or glass.

Additionally, you may use this ability to create weapons and armor you are proficient with out of sand. If anyone other than you attempts to use a weapon or suit of armor created by this feature, the object immediately crumbles into a pile of sand.

Desiccate

You may attempt to drain vitality from the creatures around you, restoring your own health in the process. As an action on your turn, you may designate a number of creatures within 60 feet of you equal to your Intelligence modifier. Each of these creatures must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. If a creature fails this saving throw, it takes 5d6 necrotic damage, while a creature that succeeds instead takes half this amount. You then regain hit points equal to half the total necrotic damage taken by all the creatures, including those that succeeded the saving throw.

After you use this ability, you must complete a long rest before you may use it again.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Pharaoh to its warlocks.

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The Seducer

Your patron is an entity that rules over lust, temptation, and the night. Fey, fiends, and enchanters each have their own angle for toying with mortal desires. The Seducer selfishly revels in its power and employs mortals to bring others under its spell. The mortals it dominates sacrifice their wealth, secrets, and morals to partake in their newfound vices. Seducer patrons include legendary vampires such as Dracula or Carmilla, Grendel’s mother, Lilith, Pan, Shamhat, and unusually powerful succubi or incubi.

Profane Beauty

Your pact has imbued you with a fiendish beauty that mirrors that of a succubus. Whenever you are not using armor or wielding a shield, you have an armor class equal to 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Charisma modifier.

Additionally, whenever you roll a saving throw to avoid the charmed condition, you roll at advantage.

Finally, you are the epitome of attractive for your race. Your features are symmetrical, your eyes hypnotizing, and your form is delightful to gaze upon for all those who might care about the form of your sex.

Persistent Allure

Your charms become even more irresistible. When a creature you target makes a saving throw against your spell or effect that would charm the target, you can use this feature to impose disadvantage on that saving throw.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier, and regain all uses when you finish a long rest.

Shroud of Secrecy

Your patron’s power infuses you with a shroud of secrecy for you to conduct your affairs. Whenever you are the target of a divination spell or about to be percieved through magical scrying sensors, you are immediately aware of it and can use a reaction to shroud yourself with a nondetection spell.

Additionally, you can now cast alter self as an action, but it does not require concentration.

Vampiric Kiss

You can drain a victim’s life force with a kiss. As an action, you may kiss a charmed or otherwise willing creature, or make a melee spell attack. Your target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save or be charmed and incapacitated until the beginning of your next turn, while also suffering 5d10 necrotic damage that it interprets as a euphoric, sensual feeling. You heal an equal amount of damage.

As an action on subsequent turns, you may maintain this effect, requiring a new saving throw by the target to charm and incapacitate them and deal 2d10 necrotic damage, which you also heal. You may continue to maintain this ability until the target saves, it dies, or you decide to no longer maintain it.

After you use this ability, you must complete a long rest before you may use it again.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Seducer to its warlocks.

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The Shadowcat

Your patron is an otherworldly incarnation of fate that strides between planes; a living omen of ill luck and good fortune alike. Drawn to the dreams of mortals, its lesser reflections perch upon the chests of the unwary in their sleep, stealing breath and fragments of life from their victims as they feed upon the nightmares this brings. When they’ve had their fill, they return to their master, who sends them back again to hunt down the creatures that have escaped from the nightmares of those tormented by darker fates. You’ve drawn the attention of this creature, for good or ill, and have made your pact in the deepest shadows of the dark.

Traits of the Shadestrider

Servants of the Shadowcat are often known as shadestriders. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock.

d14	Quirk
1	You feel most comfortable in the dark.
2	You prefer to be nocturnal in your habits.
3	You enjoy watching others sleep.
4	You tend to grin widely and inappropriately.
5	You curl your back and bare your teeth when you are threatened.
6	Your skin has wisps of shadow coming from it.
7	Your irises and eyes are shaped like those of a cat.
8	You sometimes hiss when startled.
9	Your shadow seems to pace beside you, even against the light. The effect is disconcerting to others.
10	When you cast a spell, your eyes glow with a blue light, and shadows pour from your hands.
11	Your blood is thick and dark like ink.
12	Your skin fades to an obsidian shade in shadow.
13	Your teeth become fanged and sharp.
14	You move in a way that is oddly catlike.

Dream Stalker

Your patron’s magic allows you to be everywhere and nowhere at once. As an action, you can fade partway into the shadows, gaining advantage on Stealth checks for 1 hour.

When you roll initiative while in this state and in shadow, you can choose to teleport up to 60 ft to a location within 10 feet of a creature you can see. If you deal damage to the creature with an attack during the first round of combat, you can use your bonus action to steal their breath and spirit. The target takes psychic damage equal to your warlock level and cannot speak or make sound until the start of your next turn.

Stolen Luck

You can curse an enemy within 60 ft with terrible misfortune as a bonus action. Whenever the target makes an attack roll or ability check, you can use your reaction to roll a d6 after seeing the result. If the result is a 6, the result of their d20 roll is replaced with a 1. This curse lasts for one minute, and ends early if either you or the target are reduced to 0 hit points.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Umbral Leap

Whenever you are subject to an effect that requires you to make a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to instantly dissolve into a dark mist to avoid the initial effect. You reappear in an unoccupied space of your choosing within 30 ft of your initial location.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Dark Apparition

The Shadowcat’s hunger for nightmares grants you the power to create them. You can no longer be surprised. Whenever you use your Dream Stalker feature’s bonus action, all hostile creatures within 10 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they are frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Shadowcat to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Shadowcat warlocks who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Storm Lord

You’ve made a pact with an ancient power known as the Storm Lord. Massive and timeless, this godlike entity sails the winds of the void through the darkest places between the skies of countless worlds. It is the spirit that consumes the purified souls of heroes as it welcomes them into its kingdom. Its long tendrils of lightning cover the sky, heralding the violent tempest that follows.

This entity finds silent amusement at seeing mortals in peril, and it tends to draw cults of shadowy beings to worship at its altars, performing dark rituals in the name of the Lord of Winds. You have stood before the Storm Lord, unbowed and unbroken, to make a pact that will shake the very fabric of reality. Sparks will leap from your fingertips and fog will rise from your breath as you strike down your enemies with the devastating and majestic power of the Master of the Unfallen Kingdom.

Harbinger of the End

The Storm Lord frequently appears as a massive serpentine eel-like creature with white clouds concealing the majority of its form. Its eyes glow with golden light like the sun bursting through clouds. The presence of the Lord causes even kings and rules to drop to their knees in supplication and awe of the sheer overwhelming majesty of this eternal being.

The swirling tempest that follows the Storm Lord is filled with the remnants of the souls of heroes and champions who have fought and died in both glorious combat and in the natural disasters that follow in its wake.

The Living Whirlwind

Those driven by anger and anguish are most drawn to the Storm Lord, taken in by thoughts of rebellion against the current order of things. Outcasts and priests of fallen religions, deserters and traitors, and even those simply dissatisfied with their station in life often visit the high places of the world to stand before the dangerous winds and crashing lighting, crying out to the sky for answers.

Those who truly accept their insignificance hear the voice of the Storm Lord booming in the thunder and the chanting of the fallen heroic souls in the pounding of the rain.

Traits of the Herald

Those who serve the Storm Lord through pacts and promises are known as heralds, as they stand before other mortals and speak of the coming chaos and salvation that will arrive as their master does. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after sending the soul of a hero to the Storm Lord.

d10	Quirk
1	You feel uncomfortable in heavy clothing and would rather stand unprotected from the elements.
2	You enjoy even the most extreme weather, laughing as thunder booms and lightning cracks.
3	You frequently wear dark robes or clothing that conceals your form.
4	You do not ask, you declare.
5	Your skin has wisps of fog coming from it that flash brightly when lightning crackles nearby.
6	Your eyes change color to match the sky above you.
7	Your skin crackles with sparks when rubbed.
8	Your face is cruel and alien to behold.
9	When you cast a spell, your eyes glow with a blue light and mist pours from your hands.
10	You tend to grin widely when watching the suffering of others.

Majesty of the Cloud Ruler

Gain the ability to manifest a fraction of the awe-inspiring glory of the Storm Lord. As an action, choose any number of creatures in a 15 ft radius of you. The targets must make a Charisma saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they fall prone and remain prone on their next turn unless they use all of their movement to stand.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Breath of the Gale

You passively manifest a small tempest around yourself. You gain advantage on saving throws against dangerous gases, clouds, forceful winds, and other similar effects. Your vision is not obscured by fog, mist, smoke, rain, clouds, or other airborne particles.

Additionally, whenever you take the Dash action, nonmagical ranged attacks that target you are made with disadvantage until the start of your next turn.

Rider of Lightning

When you deal lightning or thunder damage using a spell of 1st level or higher, you can use your bonus action to teleport to an unoccupied space adjacent to a target of the spell or to an unoccupied space within the spell’s area of effect.

Slayer of the King

You discover the unspoken secrets of the heroes who sought the downfall of the Storm Lord. As an action, you cleave the air with a blade of purest wind in a line 300 ft long, 300 ft high and 5 ft wide.

Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. A creature takes force damage equal to three times your warlock level on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Unattended objects automatically fail this saving throw.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Storm Lord to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to servants of the Storm Lord, who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

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The Undying

Death holds no sway over your patron, who has unlocked the secrets of everlasting life, although such a prize – like all power – comes at a price. Once mortal, the Undying has seen mortal lifetimes pass like the seasons, like the flicker of endless days and nights. It has the secrets of the ages to share, secrets of life and death. Beings of this sort include Vecna, Lord of the Hand and the Eye; the dread Iuz; the lich-queen Vol; the Undying Court of Aerenal; Vlaakith, lich-queen of the githyanki; and the deathless wizard Larloch the Shadow King.

Immortal’s Curse

Gain the ability to place a baleful curse on someone. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 30 ft. The target is cursed for 1 minute. The curse ends early if the target dies, you die, or you are incapacitated. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits:

• Your damage rolls deal an additional amount of necrotic damage equal to your Intelligence modifier.
• When you score a critical hit with an attack, you can roll one additional damage die and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.
• If the cursed target dies, you regain hit points equal to your warlock level your Intelligence modifier.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Defy Death

You can cheat death and regain some vitality. You can regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your Intelligence modifier when you succeed on a death saving throw.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Among the Eternal

You no longer require food, water, air or sleep, although you still require rest to reduce exhaustion and still benefit from finishing short and long rests. For every 10 years that pass, your body ages only 1 year, and you are immune to being magically aged.

Additionally, you gain resistance to necrotic damage, immunity to disease, and your hit point maximum increases by 10 and increases again by 1 whenever you gain a level in this class.

Master of Their Own Fate

You partake of some of the true secrets of the Undying. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 1d4 + your Intelligence modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Additionally, if you put a severed body part of yours back in place when you use this feature, the part reattaches.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Undying to its warlocks.

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Vampire

Vampires are known as the absolute masters of the night. They are powerful, violent, and terrifying beyond measure. Despite that, one of the defining traits of the master vampire is his unfailing ability to draw others to him, to bind them to his service, and to subjugate them with his awe.

Warlocks who take this pact seek to gain a measure of a master vampire’s incredible strength, intimidating presence, and immortal stamina. They desire to become true masters of the night, and, eventually, vampires in their own right.

Warlock Quirks

Making a pact with a vampire sometimes takes it’s toll on a creature, and has it’s side effects. As an optional way to add more flavor to your character, you can pick from or roll on the following table of quirks.

d6	Quirk
1	Your skin is incredibly pale, as if you have never seen the sun.
2	You have an obsession with blood, and behave in unpredictable ways in it’s prescence.
3	You are unnaturally attractive.
4	You feel slightly nauseous when in direct sunlight.
5	You are uncomfortable with entering a dwelling when you have not been invited to enter.
6	You cast no shadow unless in direct sunlight.

Vampiric Presence

Your patron shares with you some of their charm and guile. Add Speechcraft to your class skills and gain 1 skill point to spend on it.

Also, you gain the ability to bewitch humanoids. You can cast the charm spell on anyone meeting your gaze, without using any verbal or somatic components.

Once you charm a creature with this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Shapes of Twilight

Your patron grants you their shapechanging abilities. You can cast the polymorph spell on yourself to change into a bat, rat, or wolf. Once cast in this way, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Also, you can cast the gaseous form spell as a reaction to taking damage that would reduce you to 0 hit points. When cast in this way, you are instead reduced to 1 hit point, and gain temporary hit points equal to your warlock level. When cast in this way, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Life Drain

Gain the power to drain the vitality of a creature with a touch, and make it your own. As an action, you can touch a crature, forcing it to make a Constitiution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 8d8 necrotic damage and is stunned for until the end of its next turn. On a success, the creature takes half damage and is not stunned. You gain temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.

This damage reduces a target’s hit point maximum by an equal amount until they finish a long rest. A creature charmed by you takes maximum damage.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Unholy Might

The vampire grants you their physical prowess and supernatural vigor. Gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Strength ability checks.
• You can add your proficiency bonus to Initiative checks.
• Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to your warlock level, and increases by 1 again each time you gain a level in this class.
• You regain 1 hit point at the start of each of your turns while you are below half of your hit point maximum, provided you have at least 1 hit point, and not in direct sunlight or running water

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Vampire to its warlocks.

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The Weaver of Lies

In the beginning, the world was created. Many argue about how this was done, but most accept that it was the actions of the gods themselves that led to the creation of life upon the Material Plane. However, there is one being that was not created deliberately by any deity and was not spawned upon some far and god-forsaken plane. Instead, it is a creature born when the forces responsible for the creation of the world acted with deceit for the first time. Those who delve deep into the ancient texts call this creature the Weaver of Lies.

The Great Deceiver

The Weaver of Lies is often depicted as a massive spiderlike creature with an eerily human mouth and a long, nightmarish tongue. Webs of spider-silk and woven shadow adorn its purplish chitinous body, and religious symbols hang blasphemously from those tattered threads. Its golden-green eyes glare unblinking at those that stand before it, dull and remorseless in the subtle light of its lair. Barbed spines grow from its back and head, forming a twisted crown that seems a mockery of any true regalia. Those who have heard it speak are said to describe its voice as wholesome and trustworthy, despite the obviously deceptive source.

A Vengeful Creation

Those who have studied the lore surrounding the Weaver of Lies seem to agree upon one fact about this dark entity: it is the enemy of the gods themselves. It intends to destroy them, exacting a punishment upon these powerful deities for the crime of its own birth. It is a being filled with sly and subtle hatred for all of the higher powers that created the world, thinking them villains in a plot of its own devising.

It holds the gods of evil and deceit in contempt, viewing them as fools for continuing to speak and fuel its power, while considering gods of good and justice as hypocrites, knowing that by their own creation of the mortal races, they have contributed directly to the making of those creatures that are capable of the infinite creation of lies and deceptions. The Weaver is empowered by these deceits, according to the scholars and preachers of divine law, but even they do not know if their statements are true.

Reality and Incomprehension

The Weaver is more than just a liar: it is a lie. Everything about it is fake and false, even when it is true. This is often difficult for mortal minds to begin to grasp, but at a fundamental level, it remains. The Weaver does not obey the laws of the universe, because to it, those laws are lies. It defies them, it breaks them, and it rewrites them in accordance with its plans and wishes. It is the equal to the deities that it hates, and is only kept in check by the eldritch forces and older, darker powers that exist on the edges of reality.

Call to Regret

The Weaver of Lies is not commonly sought willingly. The rare few who do desire to make pacts with this eldritch entity are those that wish to no longer know the truth. Betrayers and murderers, torturers and liars who have seen the harm they have caused and rejected the outcomes will go and kneel before the Weaver, begging to have their memories taken and their minds filled with doubt so they may deny the consequences of their actions. Victims of horrible fates will stand before the Weaver and smile as their past afflictions become little more than another bad dream, something that need not trouble them any longer. Warlocks of the Weaver lie to themselves as much as they lie to others. There is a pride in their blackened hearts, to see the truth, reject it, and weave a new one. The Weaver’s webs are everywhere, and it will create a reality that is universal: one where everything is a lie.

Traits of the Spidersworn

The blissful heresy of a servant of the Weaver comes from a corruption of the mind and soul. Consider adding one or more of these traits when creating a warlock or after spinning a great web of lies in service to the Weaver.

d12	Trait
1	You take advantage of the gullible at every opportunity.
2	You view the gods in a poor light.
3	You greatly enjoy fooling the wicked.
4	You view trusting people as tools for your use.
5	You frequently reject the logical arguments of others.
6	You do not tell, you imply.
7	You enjoy betrayal, even against yourself.
8	Your eyes become a reflective black or green.
9	Your blood is yellow, like the ichor of an arachnid.
10	Your shadow is always cast directly towards the nearest light source.
11	You enjoy telling tall tales.
12	When you cast a spell with a verbal component, shadows shaped like spiders crawl from your mouth and rush to cover your hands.

Poisoned Mind

When you forge this pact at 1st level, your patron teaches you the first lie ever told. Gain Speechcraft - Deception and its prerequisite.

In addition, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher than affects one or more hostile creatures, you can use your bonus action to force one of the targets of the spell to make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If the creature fails, it is poisoned until the end of your next turn.

A Touch on the Web

You learn to summon the slaves of the Weaver to extract vengeance. Whenever you take damage from a melee attack, you can use your reaction to summon a horde of spiders to cover your attacker, biting and tearing into them.

The target takes magical piercing damage equal to your warlock level and must make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they are poisoned for one minute. While they are poisoned, they are also frightened of you. They can repeat their saving throw at the end of each of their turns, ending the effects on a success.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Trickster’s Dance

You can deceive even the fabric of reality. You can’t suffer disadvantage on saving throws. Additionally, you can cast mislead without expending a spell slot. Once you do so, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Sinful Puppeteer

Your blood flows with poison and your hands dance upon a loom of false spidersilk. You gain immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition. As an action, you can attempt to magically ensnare and control the actions of a creature that you can see within 60 ft. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, the creature is caught in your web of lies.

On your turn, you can use your bonus action to take total and precise control of the ensnared creature. While the target is under your control, you can see through your target’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the target has. Until the end of your next turn, the creature takes only actions that you choose and can’t do anything that you don’t allow it to. During this time, you can use your reaction to force the creature to use it’s reaction.

The creature remains completely unaware that you have acted upon it and feels certain that any actions it performed were of its own free will. Once you control the creature once, your hold over it is broken.

Once you attempt to magically ensnare a creature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Patron Invocations

The following invocations are granted by the Weaver of Lies to its warlocks.

Pact of the Chain Familiar

The following familiar is available to Spidersworn who have selected the Pact of the Chain feature.

Eldritch Invocations

In your study of occult lore, you unearth eldritch invocations, fragments of forbidden knowledge that imbue you with an abiding magical ability. At 2nd level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice. When you gain certain warlock levels, you gain additional invocations of your choice, as shown in the Warlock table.

When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you could learn at that level.

The invocations are listed alphabetically in the following categories:

• General invocations
• Invocations that grant spells
• Invocations that improve cantrips
• Invocations that improve spells

Additionally you have access to unique invocations from your Otherworldly Patron, as well as from you Pact boon. Add these to your list of Eldritch Invocation options

General invocations

Invocations that grant spells

The following invocations grant extra spells, that can usually be used at will, without expending spell slots or material components.

Invocations that improve cantrips

Any cantrip

Acid splash

Blade ward

Dancing lights

Eldritch blast

Friends

Green-Flame blade

Light

Lightning lure

Mage Hand

Minor illusion

Produce flame

Ray of frost

Sacred flame

Sonic shout

Spare the dying

Spectral burst

Spectral Tendril

Summon Insect

True Strike

Invocations that improve spells

Armor of Agathys

Faerie fire

Find greater steed

Hex

Mirror image

Pact Boons

In the long, storied history of outsiders meddling with and granting power to mortals, no two pacts struck have ever been exactly the same. Mortals are creatures of many needs, some being far more important than others. Most patrons by their nature are providing sorts, and tend to give the mortals at least a semblance of what they desire if only to more fully ensure that the mortals are willing and alive long enough to fulfill their patron’s dread will.

When you make a pact with your patron, you are rewarded with a boon—a special artifact that symbolizes the eldritch bargain that has been struck.

Choosing Your Pact

Choose your pact from one of the following options:

Pact of the Arc	You want vengeance, and are rewarded with a bow to strike down your enemies.
Pact of the Bastion	You aspire to be invulnerable, and are gifted an inpenetrable shield.
Pact of the Blade	You want physical power, and you are rewarded with an eldritch weapon.
Pact of the Chain	You want to control others, and are gifted a familiar-summoning trinket.
Pact of the Cowl	You want to escape notice of those who threaten you, and are rewarded with a cloak or cape.
Pact of the Evil Eye	You want to make your enemies suffer, and are gifted with the ability to curse others.
Pact of the Talisman	You want to destroy your enemies, and you are rewarded with a talisman of power.
Pact of the Tome	You want forbidden knowledge, and you are rewarded with an eldritch spellbook.

Your pact boon artifact bears the unmistakable mark of your patron—fiendish red veins, fey vines and flowers, aberrant runes and etchings, etc. You may decide how your artifact is branded by your patron.

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Pact of the Arc

The ability to strike quickly from a distance is a valuable skill, and your patron has bestowed a bow upon you to allow you to lay low your enemies while escaping from harm. This may be such things as a long, slender twig plucked from the most ancient tree in the Feywild strung with unicorn mane thread, or a burning construct of hot iron bound with strands of liquid flame, or a fibrous, living thing molded from bone and sinew of creatures best left unknown.

Pact weapon

You gain a unique, eldritch weapon from your patron, which takes the form or a bow or crossbow. This weapon is honed and shaped by your own mind—the stronger your intellect, the stronger it strikes.

You can spend one action to summon your pact weapon into your empty hand.

Eldritch Strike. When you attack with this weapon, you can use your Intelligence modifier (instead of Strength) for the attack and damage rolls.

Magical Origin. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Ephemeral. This weapon disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.

In addition, you gain 2 additional skill points to spend on bows or crossbows.

Assimilate

You can absorb the arcane properties of a magic ranged weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special, eldritch ritual.

The ritual takes 1 hour, during which all magic properties will be transferred into your pact weapon. The original weapon looses all magic and becomes a mundane weapon. You can’t affect an artifact or a sentient weapon in this way. Whenever you perform this ritual, only the properties of the last weapon remain.

Extra Attack

You can attack with your pact weapon twice whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Eldritch Arrows

As a bonus action you can channel the magics of your cantrips into your pact weapon, empowering the next arrow fired. You may cast any of your single target cantrips through your pact weapon this way. If the arrow hits, the target is considered to be hit by the cantrip as well, dealing damage by both. If the cantrip allows a save, it is considered failed.

While channeled through your pact weapon, the cantrip uses either the maximum range of the spell or your weapon, whichever is further.

Banish

When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, you can choose to banish it. If it fails a Charisma save against your spell save DC, it is banished to a demiplane controlled by your patron. It remains there as long as you concentrate, up to 1 minute.

While banished, the creature must make a Charisma saving throw at the end of each of its turns. If it succeeds, or the duration expires, the creature reappears in the space it left (or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied). If it fails, the creature instead suffers 1d10 force damage.

If the creature is reduced to 0 hit points while banished, it does not return and you regain one expended spell slot.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Arc.

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Pact of the Bastion

While any pact that a warlock makes is by definition a pact for power, some few warlocks wish to use this power for the purposes of protection - either for themselves, or for others. When this is the case, a warlock’s patron may provide them with a bastion, or a pact shield, with which to defend themselves.

This shield may be of any make or composition; it could be simple and elegant, wrought from iron-hard white wood, or it could be an impenetrable barrier of dark fiendish iron, or an otherworldly blockade grown of chitin and nodulus vestigial eyes.

Pact Shield

You gain a unique, eldritch shield from your patron. This shield is shaped and hardened by your own mind—the stronger your intellect, the more it can resist.

You can spend one action to summon your pact shield into your empty hand.

Eldritch Protection. When using this shield and no other armor, you can choose to have a base AC or 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier.

Magical Origin. It cannot be affected by any magic changing it, including polymorph object or heat metal, unless you allow it.

Ephemeral. The shield disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the shield (no action required), or if you die.

In addition, you gain the Medium armor combat skill and 2 additional skill points to spend on weapon groups.

Assimilate

You can absorb the arcane properties of a magic shield into your pact shield by performing a special, eldritch ritual.

The ritual takes 1 hour, during which all magic properties will be transferred into your pact shield. The original shield looses all magic and becomes mundane. You can’t affect an artifact or a sentient item in this way. Whenever you perform this ritual, only the properties of the last shield remain.

Extra Attack

While wearing the shield, you can attack twice whenever you take the Attack action.

Eldritch Rebuke

When a creature hits you with a melee attack, you may use your reaction to expend a warlock spell slot to blast the attacker in retribution. You deal 1d8 force damage + an additional 1d8 force damage per spell slot level. The target is then pushed 5 ft away for every level of the spell slot expended.

Ethereal Shell

As an action, you may form a hemispherical dome with a radius of up to 10 ft. This dome is utterly impenetrable, confers total cover and blocks line of sight - you cannot hear or see anything outside the dome while inside it, and vice versa. This dome lasts until the beginning of your next turn. You can’t use this ability again until you finish a short rest.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Bastion.

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Pact of the Blade

You have asked your patron for physical power, and you are rewarded with an eldritch weapon to arm yourself for battle.

If your patron is the Archfey, your weapon might be a slender blade wrapped in leafy vines. If you serve the Fiend, your weapon could be an axe made of black metal and adorned with decorative flames. If your patron is the Great Old One, your weapon might be an ancient-looking spear, with a gemstone embedded in its head, carved to look like a terrible unblinking eye. If your patron is Death, your weapon might be skeletal in nature, or be made from stone that sends chills down the spine of whoever touches it.

Pact weapon

You gain a unique, eldritch weapon from your patron. This weapon is honed and shaped by your own mind—the stronger your intellect, the stronger it strikes.

You can spend one action to summon your pact weapon into your empty hand.

Eldritch Strike. When you attack with this weapon, you can use your Intelligence modifier (instead of Strength) for the attack and damage rolls.

Magical Origin. This weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Ephemeral. This weapon disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the weapon (no action required), or if you die.

In addition, you gain the Medium armor combat skill and 2 additional skill points to spend on weapon groups.

Assimilate

You can absorb the arcane properties of a magic weapon into your pact weapon by performing a special, eldritch ritual.

The ritual takes 1 hour, during which all magic properties will be transferred into your pact weapon. The original weapon looses all magic and becomes mundane. You can’t affect an artifact or a sentient weapon this way. Whenever you perform this ritual, only the properties of the last weapon remain.

Extra Attack

You can attack with your pact weapon twice whenever you take the Attack action.

Eldritch Brand

When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, you may choose to brand the creature and deal an extra 1d6 force damage per your spell slot level. While the creature is branded, attacks with your pact weapon deal extra force damage to that creature equal to your Intelligence modifier. The creature also cannot benefit from the Invisible condition until the mark expires.

You may use this feature a number of times equal to your intelligence modifier, and recover expended uses when you finish a long rest

Banish

When you hit a creature with your pact weapon, you can choose to banish it. If it fails a Charisma save against your spell save DC, it is banished to a demiplane controlled by your patron. It remains there as long as you concentrate, up to 1 minute.

While banished, the creature must make a Charisma saving throw at the end of each of its turns. If it succeeds, or the duration expires, the creature reappears in the space it left (or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied). If it fails, the creature instead suffers 1d10 force damage.

If the creature is reduced to 0 hit points while banished, it does not return and you regain one expended spell slot.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Blade.

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Pact of the Chain

You ask your patron for the ability to control others, and are rewarded with a bound familiar. Your familiar is more cunning than a typical familiar. Its form can be a reflection of your patron, with Sprites, Pseudodragons and Tressym (winged cat from Storm King’s Thunder) tied to the patrons of the natural world, and Imps and Quasits tied to fiends.

A warlock of Death or Undeath may have a Crawling Claw or a Raven as a familiar, or a skeletal or spectral versions of other familiars.

Tressym also commonly follow warlocks of the Pharaoh and the Seducer.

Warlocks of the Cosmic Machine sometimes have Clockwork beetles or Library automatons (Tome of Beasts) as familiars.

Warlocks following the Great Old One have access to more otherworldly familiars, such as the Gibbering Orblet and Flumphling, or the Gazer (Volo’s Guide to Monsters).

A warlock ot the The Emergent Mind might have an possessed item.

Chained Familiar

An eldritch trinket, such as a ring, bracelet, earring, or a diadem. Your trinket bears the unmistakable mark of your patron—fiendish red veins, fey vines and flowers, aberrant runes and etchings, etc.

While you are wearing this trinket, you can summon the familiar with a 10 minute ritual. You can dismiss it without spending an action. If your familiar is killed, it vanishes, and you can not summon it until after a long rest. The familiar regains all its hit points after a long rest, including if it was reduced to 0 hp.

Chainmaster. When you take the Attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to spend its reaction and make one attack of its own.

I serve. Your familiar has a personality of its own—it may or may not be happy to serve you. But whatever its attitude, the familiar must obey the command of whomever wears the trinket.

Mutation

Whenever you summon your familiar, you may choose one of the following mutations:

Familiar Telepath

You can communicate telepathically with your familiar and perceive through your familiar’s senses as long as you are on the same plane of existence.

While perceiving through your familiar’s senses, you can speak through your familiar in your own voice—even if your familiar is normally incapable of speech.

Mutation Master

Whenever you summon your familiar, you can choose two mutations to apply to it.

Chain Tyrant

You can spend your bonus action to command your familiar to make one attack.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Chain.

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Pact of the Cowl

You want to escape notice of those who threaten you, and are rewarded with a mystical cowl made of otherworldly material from your warlock patron.

If your patron is the Archfey, this could be a cape of pastel silks and gossamers. If you serve the Fiend, your cloak might be made from bat wings and demon hide, while a the Cosmic machine could grant a robe made from fabric with a metallic sheen. If your patron is Death, your cloak could be one from worn grey cloth, almost deathly thin.

Pact Cowl

You gain a unique, eldritch cowl from your patron. It takes the form of a hooded cloak, cape or robe.

You can spend one bonus action to summon your Cowl, as long as you do not wear another cloak, and it appears on you equipped.

Eldritch Protection. When using this Cowl and no other armor, you can choose to have a base AC or 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Intelligence modifier.

Magical Origin. It cannot be affected by any magic changing it, including polymorph object, unless you allow it.

Ephemeral. The Cowl disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the cowl (no action required), or if you die.

In addition, while wearing your Cowl, you may choose to use your Intelligence modifier in place of Dexterity when you make a Stealth or Sleight of Hand check.

Assimilate

You can absorb the arcane properties of a magic cloak, cape, or robe into your pact cowl by performing a special, eldritch ritual.

The ritual takes 1 hour, during which all magic properties will be transferred into your pact cowl. The original item looses all magic and becomes mundane. You can’t affect an artifact or a sentient item in this way. Whenever you perform this ritual, only the properties of the last assimilated item remain.

Cape of Concealment

While you are wearing your Cowl, you have advantage on all Stealth checks, and you are constantly under the effects of the nondetection spell. You cna choose to suppress the effect at will.

Parachute

While you are wearing your Cowl, you may cast the feather fall spell on yourself at will without expending a spell slot.

Misdirecting Mantle

If an enemy combatant misses you with a melee attack roll while you are wearing your Cowl, you may use your reaction to redirect their attack to one creature of your choice. The attacker must roll a new attack roll with advantage against their new target’s AC.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and you regain all uses after a short rest.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Cowl.

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Pact of the Evil Eye

You want to make your enemies suffer, and are gifted with the ability to curse others. Your patron bestows upon you an otherworldly mark somewhere on your body, usually on the palm of one of your hands or on your forehead. This mark is enchanted with ancient and dreaded secrets of curses, known as the Evil eye.

Hex

You learn the hex spell, which does not count against your spells known.

Evil Eye. As an action, you can hide or reveal the mark. While revealed, it acts as an arcane focus. You may cast the hex spell once at its lowest level without using a spell slot. Once you do so, you can’t use it again until you finish a short rest.

Eldritch Retribution. When the target of your current casting of hex deals damage to you, you may use a reaction to deal the hex damage to the target.

Hardy. You may choose to use your Intelligence modifier in place of Constitution when you make a Concentration check. When keeping concentration on the hex spell, you always have advantage.

Devouring Hex

When a creature under the effects of your hex is reduced to 0 hit points, you can choose to end the spell to regain hit points equal to your warlock level + your Intelligence modifier.

Stealing the Senses

You learn the art of using your curse to surveil and gather information. When you cast the hex spell, you can choose to increase the duration to 8 hours. When cast in this way, the spell does not trigger the extra damage from successful attack rolls.

While a target is afflicted by this option, you can sense what direction they are in, though you are unable to discern how far they are from you. Additionally, as long as the target is within one mile, you can use your action to use one of the targets senses instead of you own, seeing what the target sees, or hearing what the target hears.

Maddening Hex

As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your hex. When you do so, you deal psychic damage to the cursed target and each creature of your choice adjacent to it. The psychic damage equals your Intelligence modifier.

You must be able to see the cursed target, and it must be within 30 feet.

Relentless Hex

Your curse creates a temporary bond between you and your target. As a bonus action, you can teleport up to 30 ft to an unoccupied space adjacent to the target cursed by your hex. To teleport in this way, you must be able to see the target.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Evil Eye.

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Pact of the Talisman

You want to destroy your enemies, and you are rewarded with a talisman of power. Your talisman may take many different forms depending on your chosen patron; here are some inspirations for your talisman’s appearance:

The Archfey. Your talisman may appear as an inscribed wand, a petrified leaf worn around the neck, or a ring with the insignia of your patron’s court.

The Fiend. A talisman from a Fiend may be an unholy symbol, a large fang or blood painted stone.

The Great Old One. Your talisman could take many different forms: perhaps a scrap of paper torn from a tome of secrets; a twitching eyeball pendant; or a small flickering lantern.

Pact Talisman

The talisman acts as a conduit for your eldritch power. As an arcane focus, you can cast your spells through it, but your taliman allows you to do it even if you are not holding it. A spell’s range is determined from the location of the talisman instead of your own.

You can target spell effects as normal, if you see the targets. Otherwise, spell cast through your talisman will be unguided, and will instead be cast at a valid target or area nearest to the talisman following the spell’s behaviour. If an unguided spell has no valid targets, the spell is wasted.

You can summon this talisman back to your hand as a bonus action. While on the same plane, you always know the distance and direction between you and your talisman.

Eldritch Aegis

You are always aware of the nature of creatures within 10 ft of your talisman as if it were under the effect of the detect evil and good spell.

In addition you can use your reaction to cast shield on a creature holding your talisman without expending a spell slot. Once you use this feature you can’t do so again until you finish a short rest.

Dark Seal

You can cast the glyph of warding and Nystul’s magic aura spells at your warlock spell slot level on your talisman without expending a spell slot. Once you cast a spell with this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Reality Tear

You can teleport your talisman to a location you can see within 120 ft of you as an action. If you teleport your talisman into the inventory of an unwilling creature, it must succeed a Perception check contested by your Intelligence (Sleight of Hand) check to notice. If the creature succeeds it can avoid this teleportation, causing your talisman to drop to the ground in its space.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

You can project your senses through your talisman as an action, allowing you to perceive creatures and objects up to 30 feet from its location until the end of your next turn, as long as it is on the same plane of existence.

Destruction

While you are holding the talisman, you can spend an action to cast disintegrate as a 6th-level spell.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Talisman.

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Pact of the Tome

You ask your patron for forbidden knowledge, and are rewarded with a tome of eldritch secrets called a Book of Shadows. Your Book of Shadows might be a fine, gilt-edged tome with spells of enchantment and illusion, gifted to you by the lordly Archfey. It could be a weighty tome bound in demon hide studded with iron, holding spells of conjuration and a wealth of forbidden lore about the sinister regions of the cosmos, a gift of the Fiend. Or it could be the tattered diary of a lunatic driven mad by contact with the Great Old One, holding scraps of spells that only your own burgeoning insanity allows you to understand and cast.

Book of Shadows

You gain a book of forbidden knowledge from your patron, granting you more power over the arcane. While you are holding your Book of Shadows, you can cast your warlock spells as a ritual if they have the ritual tag.

Your book bears the unmistakable mark of your patron—fiendish red veins, fey vines and flowers, aberrant runes and etchings, etc.

You can summon the book to your hand as a action.

Adding Rituals. When you find a ritual spell, you can add it to the book if the spell’s level is equal to or less than half your warlock level (rounded up). For each level of the spell, you must spend 2 hours and 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.

Forbidden Cantrips. Choose one cantrip from any class spell list. While the book is on your person, you can cast that cantrip at will. It doesn’t count against your number of cantrips known.

Forbidden Ritual. Choose one 1st-level spell that has the ritual tag from any class spell list. The spell appears in the book and doesn’t count against the number of spells you know. While the book is in your hand, you can cast that spell as a ritual.

Forbidden Knowledge

Add two additional cantrips and one additional 1st-level spell that has the ritual tag to your Book of Shadows. These spells can be from any class spell list (and needn’t be from the same list).

Page of Eldritch Power

A new page appears in your Book of Shadows; a page of eldritch power.

Adding Names. A creature may spend an action to write its true name on the page. The page can contain a number of names equal to your Intelligence modifier. Additional names (or false names) written on the page will fade after one minute.

Removing Names. When you finish a long rest, you may touch one page of power from your Book of Shadows and magically erase any names of your choice.

Destroying the Page. The page naturally heals any damage to it. If the page is torn out of the book, that page turns to ash and a new one appears in the book—exactly as it was.

Choose a power from the options below.

Focused Mind

While you are holding your Book of Shadows, you have advantage on Constitution saving throws made to maintain concentration on a spell.

Archivist

Your Book of Shadows gains another page of eldritch power. Choose a power. You may take the same option multiple times if you wish.

Fractured Soul

Your Book of Shadows is no longer destroyed when you die, and it can be used in place of your corpse to restore you to life.

Pact Invocations

The following invocations are unique to warlocks with the Pact of the Tome.