Alternate Warlock

You have entered a Pact with a powerful entity of the faerie. Whether you were gifted this Pact, or you tricked your Patron into granting you a measure of power, you can draw upon the whimsical and terrifying power of the Fey. Only the eldest of the faerie can form such Pacts; the Archfey of the Fey courts, ancient sylvan spirits, and the most powerful covens of hags.

6th-level Archfey feature

Your magic clouds the minds of your foes. When you deal psychic damage to a creature with Eldritch Blast, it has disadvantage on the first attack roll it makes before the start of your next turn. Any creature immune to the charmed condition is also immune to this effect.

6th-level Archfey feature

You can draw on the magic of the Fey to elude danger. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to turn invisible and teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet. You remain invisible until the start of your next turn, or until you attack, cast a spell, or force a saving throw.

You can use this feature once in between each short or long rest at no cost, after which, you need to expend a Pact Magic spell slot to use this feature again.

10th-level Archfey feature

You gain Immunity to the Charmed condition, and when a creature attempts to inflict the Charmed condition on you, it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it suffers the effects of your Fey Presence. If it also cannot be Charmed, it takes psychic damage equal to your Warlock level.

14th-level Archfey feature

Your fey magic overwhelms even the strongest minds. Your Warlock spells and features ignore immunity to the charmed condition. However, these creatures have advantage on their saving throws to resist being charmed by you.

Also, whenever a creature fails its saving throw against Fey Presence, you can plunge it into an illusory realm of emotion, but this enhanced effect requires your concentration. For the duration, the target can see and hear only itself, you, and this illusory reality of your creation. Each time it takes damage, it can repeat its Wisdom saving throw, ending this effect on a success.

Once a creature succeeds on this saving throw it is immune to this effect for 24 hours.

You have entered into a Pact with one of the sinister rulers of the Shadowfell. These powerful entities are imprisoned within their Domain of Dread, only able to affect the outside world through trusted servants. Imbued with a fraction of your Darklord's power, you can wield the sinister power of shadows against your Darklord's foes.

You can bind the souls of your slain foes in your service for a short time. When a Humanoid under the effects of a Darklord Magic spell dies, you can capture its spirit as a reaction.

You can only have a single spirit captured at a time. As an action, you can consume this spirit to conjure a Specter in an unoccupied space within 10 feet. It is under your control, and it uses the Specter stat block from the Monster Manual, but it uses your Spell save DC and Spell attack modifier for attack rolls. It remains for 1 minute, or until it is destroyed.

In combat, your Specter acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but it will only take the Dodge action unless you use your bonus action to order it to take an action from its stat block or another action.

If you become Unconscious, your Specter is destroyed.

10th-level Darklord feature

Your curses vex your foes' attempts to harm you. Whenever a creature under the effects of a Darklord Magic spell damages you, you reduce it by your Pact modifier (minimum of 1).

In addition, whenever you make a death saving throw, you add your Pact modifier (minimum of +1) to your roll.

Your dark Pact infuses you with power to rival your Patron. When a creature under the effects of one of your Darklord Magic spells is slain, you can use your reaction to regain a single expended Pact Magic spell slot, in place of capturing its spirit with your Cursed Specter feature.

Finally, when you use Cursed Specter, you can expend a Pact Magic spell slot to conjure your Specter in place of the spirit. You can only have one Specter conjured at a time.

You have bonded yourself to a primordial force of the ancient waters, known as a Deep One. These Thalassic entities often enter into Pacts with desperate sailors, expert navigators, or scholars of the oceans. Any aquatic being of sufficient power can form such a Pact, but ancient krakens, primordial water elementals, and demigods of the ocean are most common.

6th-level Deep One feature

If you deal cold damage to a creature with Eldritch Blast two or more times in one turn, you can use Grasp of the Deep without expending a use of that feature.

10th-level Deep One feature

You bring ever more of your Deep Patron's power to bear upon the world. You can use Grasp of the Deep on Huge creatures, and when a creature begins its turn Grappled by Grasp of the Deep, it takes 2d8 cold damage.

10th-level Deep One feature

Your mind is set in frozen purpose. Your concentration on Deep Magic spells cannot be broken by taking damage.

14th-level Deep One feature

You can cause the full might of your thalassic Patron to burst forth. As an action, you conjure up to five Grasp of the Deep tendrils in spaces of your choice within 30 feet. Each tendril forces one creature within 10 feet to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, creatures take 2d8 cold damage and are Restrained by the tendril for its duration. On a success, they take half as much damage and are not Restrained.

You can use this feature once per long rest at no cost. After that, you must spend a Pact Magic spell slot to use it again.

You have entered into a Pact with a powerful Celestial native to the upper planes of existence. Whether your Patron sought you out as an ally or you proved yourself worthy, you are now bound to a being of absolute good. Only the most powerful of the heavenly hosts can serve as Patrons; Archangels, scions of gods, and powerful demigods of good are most common.

Your increased devotion to your Pact allows you to draw upon greater amounts of holy power. You gain resistance to radiant damage, and when you use Celestial Light, you can expend multiple uses (up to your Pact modifier) at one time to restore 1d10 hit points to your target for each use expended.

In addition, you can expend one of your Pact Magic spell slots as a bonus action to regain expended uses of Celestial Light equal to the level of that Pact Magic spell slot.

10th-level Exalted feature

Your divine presence fortifies you and your allies. Each time you finish a short or long rest you gain temporary hit points equal to your Warlock level + your Pact modifier.

You can also choose up to five creatures who completed the short or long rest with you to gain temporary hit points equal to half your Warlock level + your Pact modifier.

The heavenly power infused into your Pact allows you to resist death. When you make a death saving throw, you can choose to instantly return to life with half your maximum hit points, stand up, and unleash a burst of radiant light.

When you do, creatures of your choice within 30 feet must make a Constitution saving throw against your Spell save DC. On a failed save, creatures take 8d6 radiant damage and are blinded until the end of your current turn. On a success, they take half as much radiant damage and are not blinded.

Once you use this feature to return to life you must finish a long rest before you can use it again. If you have no uses left, you can expend a Pact Magic spell slot to use it again.

You have entered into a Pact with a powerful Fiend from the lower planes of existence. Whether you struck a bargain, you were coerced, or you tricked your Patron, you are now linked to a being of absolute evil. Only the most powerful Fiends can serve as Patrons; Archdevils, Demon Lords, and particularly powerful servants of extraplanar evil are the most common.

6th-level Fiend feature

Your magic scours the very soul of your foes. Whenever you deal fire damage to a creature, it cannot regain hit points or gain temporary hit points until the start of your next turn.

6th-level Fiend feature

You can sacrifice your very vitality to alter fate in your favor. When you fail an ability check or saving throw, you can roll a d10, adding the result to your roll, but reducing your hit point maximum by the same amount.

Reductions to your hit point maximum from this feature are restored at the end of your next long rest.

10th-level Fiend feature

At the end of each short or long rest you choose one type of damage. You gain resistance to that type of damage until the end of your next short or long rest. Damage you take from magical or silvered weapons ignores this resistance.

14th-level Fiend feature

You can temporarily inflict the horrors of hell upon your foes. When you deal damage to a creature with Eldritch Blast, you can teleport it to your Patron's domain, where it experiences unimaginable horrors. At the end of your next turn, it returns to the space it previously occupied or the nearest unoccupied space. If the creature was not a Fiend, it takes 6d10 psychic damage as it grapples with the horrors it experienced.

Once you use this feature you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

You have made a Pact with an incomprehensible entity from beyond the reaches of your reality. Perhaps it is from the Far Realm or the void between stars. The desires of the Great Old Ones are incomprehensible to mortals, and true knowledge of the vast alien intelligence of your Patron would shatter your mind and render you completely insane.

6th-level Great Old One feature

Once per turn when you deal psychic damage to a creature with Eldritch Blast, you scour the target's mind so it cannot take reactions until the beginning of your next turn.

6th-level Great Old One feature

You can repel attacks with your mental abilities. Whenever a creature you can see targets you with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on its attack roll. If the triggering attack misses, you can target the attacker with one beam of your Eldritch Blast as part of the same reaction.

You can use this reaction a number of times equal to your Pact modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all of your expended uses when you finish a long rest.

10th-level Great Old One feature

Your thoughts cannot be read by telepathy or any other magic or psionic means unless you allow them to. Also, whenever you succeed on an Intelligence or Wisdom saving throw, you can deal psychic damage equal to your Warlock level to the creature that forced you to make the saving throw.

14th-level Great Old One feature

As an action, you can touch one incapacitated humanoid and flood them with the mind-shattering influence of your Patron, turning it into your Thrall.

This Thrall is charmed by you, and you can telepathically issue it commands so long as you are both on the same plane of existence. It obeys your commands to the best of its ability, but will not follow commands that would cause it immediate harm.

It remains your Thrall until it dies or it is released from this effect by a remove curse spell or another spell of similar power. You can only have one Thrall under your control, and creating a second Thrall releases any previous Thralls from the effects of your alien influence..

You have formed a Pact with a Noble Genie, one of the rulers of the elemental planes. Only the most powerful genies from among the Dao, Djinn, Efretti, and Marid, can rise to heights of power possessed by a Noble Genie. Masters of elemental forces, these entities have magical abilities that rival those of lesser gods, and can alter reality with the wishes they grant.

Select the kind of your Noble Genie from the table below. Each genie is associated with an Element and Damage Type:

6th-level Noble Genie feature

Your elemental magics have begun to physically change you. You gain resistance to the damage type of your Noble Genie.

Also, once per turn when you deal the damage type of your Noble Genie to a creature with Eldritch Blast, you can force it to make a Charisma saving throw against your Spell save DC. On a failed save, you instantly switch places with the target.

10th-level Noble Genie feature

When you enter your Vessel, you can choose up to five willing creatures within 30 feet to enter with you. The creatures can remain inside for up to 1 hour, but they exit early if you leave, the Vessel is destroyed, or you use an action to eject them.

While within your Vessel, creatures can complete a short rest in 10 minutes, following normal short rest limitations.

14th-level Noble Genie feature

You can invoke your Patron to alter reality. As an action, you can hold aloft your Vessel to cast one spell of your choice of 6th-level or lower from any spell list. It must have a casting time of an action or bonus action, and your Vessel replaces material components, including those with a gold cost.

Once you use this feature, you must finish three long rests before you can use it again.

You have entered into a Pact with a formerly mortal creature who has found a way to cheat death. Only the most powerful undead can become Undying Patrons: powerful liches, dread vampire lords, death knights, and sinister spirits of undeath.

6th-level Undying feature

Your Pact allows you to feed on the vitality of the living. Once per turn, when you deal necrotic damage to a creature that is not a Construct or Undead, you can gain temporary hit points equal to half the damage dealt (up to your Warlock level).

In Necrotic Husk form, you can add these to the temporary hit points from Necrotic Husk, but your temporary hit points cannot exceed your Warlock level + your Pact modifier.

6th-level Undying feature

While you are in Necrotic Husk form, creatures that can see you within 30 feet have disadvantage on any saving throw you force them to make to resist the Frightened condition.

10th-level Undying feature

Your mortal form has been fortified by the unnatural magic of your sinister Patron. You gain Resistance to necrotic damage.

In Necrotic Husk, this becomes Immunity to necrotic, and Resistance to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical and non-silvered weapons.

14th-level Undying feature

If you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you instead gain hit points equal to your level. Once you use this feature you must finish a long rest before you use it again.

Lastly, if you begin your turn with less than half of your total hit points, but at least 1 hit point, you regain hit points equal to your Pact modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).

Inherently magical beings with incredibly long lifespans, great dragons hoard not only wealth, but servants and slaves as well. Benevolent and malicious, kind and terrible, good and evil, ancient dragons of all types have motivations that are beyond the comprehension of most mortal creatures.

6th-level Wyrm feature

Your Pact has reshaped your physiology to resemble that of a dragon. When you use Eldritch Blast or cast a Warlock spell that deals Draconic Spark damage, you can produce its effect from your mouth without the use of a Trinket or Focus.

When you do so, you ignore Resistance to Draconic Spark damage, treat any Immunities to Draconic Spark damage as Resistance, and treat a roll of 1 or 2 on damage dice as a 3.

10th-level Wyrm feature

You have developed willpower to rival your ancient Patron. You are immune to the charmed and frightened conditions.

You also learn the Beguiling Influence Invocation. It does not count against your number of Invocations Known, and it cannot be replaced. If you already know this Invocation, you gain another Eldritch Invocation of your choice.

14th-level Wyrm feature

As a bonus action on your turn, you can manifest (or retract) a pair of leathery Draconic Wings, which sprout from your back. While these wings are manifested, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

When you manifest these wings, they destroy any armor or clothing that isn't designed to accommodate your wings.

14th-level Wyrm feature

The full power of your Patron's Draconic Spark is realized. When you use Draconic Blast, you can choose for it to be a 25-foot cone or a 50-foot line.

Finally, whenever you use Draconic Blast, you can expend one of your Pact Magic spell slots to empower that blast. On a failed save, targets take additional Draconic Spark damage equal to 1d10 per level of your Pact Magic spell slot, and they take half as much damage on a successful saving throw.