Warlock

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.

At 6th level, you learn to escape like the whimsical fey. As a reaction when you take damage, you can turn invisible and teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet, where you remain invisible until the start of your next turn, or until you attack a creature or cast a spell.

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

At 10th level, you gain immunity to the charmed condition.

Moreover, when a creature attempts to charm you, you can force it to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is charmed by your for 1 minute, or until it takes any damage.

At 14th level, you can use an action to force a creature within 60 feet that can hear you to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it believes that it has been transported to the realm of your Archfey Patron, and cannot discern friend from foe for 1 minute. On each turn, it must use its action to make a weapon attack against a random target within its reach.

The creature can repeat this Wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending this effect on a success.

Once you use this feature you must finish a long rest before you use it again. When you have no uses left, you can expend a Pact Magic spell slot to use this feature an additional time.

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, called That Which Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.

At 6th level, you can use your psionic power to potentially deflect enemy attacks. When a creature that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to roll a d4 and add it to your Armor Class against the triggering attack.

Starting at 10th level, you gain resistance to psychic damage, and you have advantage on any saving throw you make to resist both the charmed and the frightened condition.

Beginning at 14th level, you can use your action to touch an incapacitated humanoid, causing it to be charmed by you.

You can communicate telepathically with the charmed creature as long as the two of you are on the same plane of existence. You can issue the creature commands using your telepathy, which it does its best to obey. It will not follow any commands that cause itself immediate harm or death.

The creature remains charmed until a remove curse spell is used on it, the charmed condition is removed, or you use this feature to charm another creature.

You have made a pact with one or more ancient dragons or a dragon god. You wield a measure of their control over the elements and have insight into their deep mysteries. As your power and connection to your patron or patrons grows, you take on more draconic features, even sprouting scales and wings.

At 6th level, you begin to take on draconic aspects. When you finish a long rest, choose one of the following types of damage: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. You have resistance to the chosen damage type. This resistance lasts until you finish a long rest.

In addition, as an action, you can harness a portion of your patrons' mighty presence, causing a spectral version of your dragon patron's visage to appear over your head. Choose up to three creatures you can see within 30 feet of you. Each target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be charmed or frightened (your choice) until the end of your next turn. Once you use this action, you can't use it again until you finish a short or a long rest.

At 10th level, your connection to your draconic patron or patrons grows stronger, granting you more powerful blessings. When you finish a long rest, you choose which ascended blessing to accept. While you have an ascended blessing, you receive the benefits of its associated Wyrmling Blessing in addition to any new features of the ascended blessing. You can have only one blessing active at a time. The blessing lasts until you finish a long rest.

At 14th level, you can assume the form of a dragon. As an action, you can transform into a dragon with a challenge rating as high as your warlock level divided by 3, rounded down, for 1 minute. This transformation works like the polymorph spell, except you can take only the form of a dragon, and you don't need to maintain concentration to maintain the transformation. While you are in the form of a dragon, you retain your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. For the purpose of this feature, "dragon" refers to any creature with the dragon type, including dragon turtles, drakes, and wyverns. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

While humanoids have vast pantheons and divine figures of every stripe, the animals of the world have much simpler forms of faith. Among each species there is always one paragon that embodies the animal spirit in a humanoid form, the better to speak to others and represent the animals in the fey courts and the Upper Planes. These timeless entities are connected to every animal of the kind they represent, and their primary concerns are for the well-being of these animals and the natural world as a whole.

Your patron is one such animal lord. Animal lords are varied in their motivations and often come into conflict with each other. They each command legions of animal followers and gather information from all of them. Unlike many other patrons, animal lords often have close relationships with those they bind with pacts, some to control, others to guide and advise. You are your animal lord's hand in the affairs of humanoids, and your allies are as numerous as the spiders in the corner or the birds in the sky.

You choose a specific animal lord to be your patron using the Animal Lord table. Each type of animal in the world can potentially have an animal lord. If you want to follow a specific type of animal lord, work with your GM to determine the animal lord's affinity and beast type and where that animal lord fits in the world. For a deeper dive on specific animal lords and for their game statistics, see Creature Codex and Tome of Beasts 2. These books aren't required to choose an animal lord as your patron or to play this class option.

At 6th level, your patron sends you a beast companion that accompanies you on your adventures and is trained to fight alongside you. The companion acts as the animal lord's eyes and ears, allowing your patron to watch over you, and, at times, advise, warn, or otherwise communicate with you.

Choose a beast that relates to your patron (as shown in the Beast Type column in the Animal Lords table) that has a challenge rating of 1/4 or lower. If you have the Pact of the Chain Pact Boon, this beast becomes your familiar.

Your patron companion is friendly to you and your companions, and you can speak with it as if you shared a language. It obeys your commands and, in combat, it shares your initiative and takes its turn immediately after yours. Your patron companion can move and use its reaction on its own, but, if you don't issue any commands to it, the only action it takes is the Dodge action. You can use a bonus action to direct it to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide, or Search action or an action listed in its statistics. If you are incapacitated, the companion can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

If your companion dies, your patron sends a new one to you after 24 hours. If your patron companions die too often, your patron might be reluctant to send a new one or might reprimand you in other ways.

At 10th level, you can use your bond to your patron to tap into the innate connection between all animals. At the end of each short or long rest, choose one of the following benefits. The benefit lasts until you finish a short or long rest.

At 14th level, you can summon a horde of beasts to come to your aid. As an action, you call upon your animal lord, and several beasts of your patron's type appear in unoccupied spaces that you can see within 60 feet of you. This works like a 7th-level conjure animals spell, except you don't need to maintain concentration. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Changeling queens are beings of great power, and they will often share this magic within and without their hive to best serve their nefarious interests. Non-changeling warlocks with this patron often sought knowledge of the changeling's mastery of transmutation magic, and were coerced into pacts for their forbidden quest

Beginning at 6th level, your patron gives you the ability to unnerve your enemies by transfiguring your face into a twisted and grotesque form. As a bonus action you can cast cause fear without using a spell slot, and your face takes on a frightening form that you choose for 1 minute or until your concentration ends. During this time you can cast cause fear as a bonus action on each of your turns, without expending a spell slot.

Any creature that can see your face is at disadvantage on its saving throw for cause fear unless it averts its eyes, gaining disadvantage on attack rolls against you. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before using it again.

At 10th level, your patron gifts you with the ability to mentally overpower enemies with enchantment magic. When hit by a melee attack, you may use your reaction to forcefully enter their mind. The attacking creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, you take no damage from the attack and they are charmed until the end of their next turn. While charmed they act favorably toward you. On a success, you take half damage from the attack. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

Starting at 14th level, you may spend warlock spell slots when using Alter Other, the spell alter self, or racial shapechanging. You may choose as many extra effects as warlock slots you spend.

Chaos Wielders choose the Elemental Chaos as their patron, allowing them to tap into the raw forces of chaos and manipulate fate itself. In their temperaments, these warlocks often resemble the force they serve - they are erratic and sometimes even nihilistic, not bound by any standards of laws or social norms. As a result, Chaos Wielders are usually spurned by the rest of society and are considered dangerous in their seemingly incomprehensible motives.

Starting at 6th level, you can manipulate fate using the power of chaos. When any creature makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to roll 1d4 and apply the number rolled as a bonus or penalty to the creature's roll. You can do so after the creature rolls but before any effects of the roll occur. At 10th level, this dice increases to 1d6, and at 14th level this dice increases to 1d8. 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.

Starting at 10th level, you can manipulate the energies of your spells for optimal effect. For any spell that requires a dice roll, you can roll twice and take the desired roll. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 14th level, you can manipulate your fate and those of others. When any creature makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can use your reaction to give advantage or disadvantage to the creature's roll. You can do so after the creature rolls but before any effects of the roll occur. 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.

Some warlocks gain their eldritch power from the very cosmos, answering to entities of space, the constellations, planets, and moons. A warlock swearing fealty to a Cosmic patron typically believes they speak to gods, or god-like beings, but these entities are shrouded in mystery, their appearance incomprehensible and horrible, and their divine power is bestowed into the warlock from the stars and galaxies beyond.

Once per turn when you miss a creature with eldritch blast, the beam returns to you as an orbiting comet around your head. While you have an orbiting comet, you can absorb its energy to do the following:

You can have a maximum number of orbiting comets equal to your proficiency bonus. As long as you have comets, you glow with bright light out to 20 feet, and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The comets last until you finish a short or long rest, or until you dismiss them (no action required).

Once per turn when you hit a creature with eldritch blast, you can cause the beam to explode. Each creature within 10 feet of the target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 fire damage.

The damage increases to 4d6 damage at 14th level, and to 5d6 damage at 17th level.

Charged by the energy of the stars, you gain additional benefits from the otherworldly entities lurking in the deep void of space.

A warlock who enters a pact with a creature from Limbo gains considerable power—but like the plane itself, this power can be unpredictable and unstable, requiring a firm hand to tame its chaos.

Starting at 6th level, you can use your action to teleport up to 30 feet toward an intersection of four spaces that you can see see. When you do so, you designate each space adjacent to the target point with number 1-4, rolling a d4 and appearing in that space. Each creature within 5 feet of the space where you appear takes force damage equal to your warlock level. If you appear in a space occupied by a solid object or creature, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy; both you and the object or creature take force damage equal to your warlock level. The damage to you cannot be resisted or reduced in any way.

When you use this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 10th level, you can use a bonus action on each of your turns to roll a d8 and record the result. The next weapon or spell attack you make before the end of your turn is both strengthened and weakened; before you make the attack roll, you designate whether your d8 result is added or subtracted from your attack roll's result. If you subtract your d8 result from your attack roll, the same result is added as force damage if the attack still hits; if you add your d8 result to the attack roll, this same amount is subtracted from the attack's damage, to a minimum of 0.

Starting at 14th level you can use your reaction to roll a d6 when you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage. On a result of 1, you have immunity to the damage; on a result of 2-4, you have resistance to the damage; on a 5, there is no effect; on a 6, you are vulnerable to the damage. The resulting effect only applies to the source of damage that triggered the reaction.

When you use this feature, you can choose to reroll the d6 once and use the new result. When you reroll the d6 for this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Death's Mistress was once a mortal sorceress, who swayed the lord of the underworld after her demise. She now watches over the mortal realm anticipating each creature's death and ensuring that it meets its end at the proscribed time and place. As queen of the Shadowfell, she rules over a decayed, dark reflection of the world.

At 6th level, your patron eases your mortal affairs by taking your soul to the Shadowfell. You no longer need food or water. You also don't require sleep and can rest while remaining alert and performing light tasks. You must spend 8 hours resting in this way to gain the benefits of a long rest. In addition, magic can't put you to sleep.

At 10th level, the Mistress grants you a protective blessing. You gain advantage on death saving throws, immunity to the frightened condition, and resistance to necrotic damage.

Starting at 14th level, your patron bestows upon you the ability to channel the Shadowfell's power to slay your enemies and bind their spirits to you. You can cast finger of death. After you cast the spell with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

You've made a pact with a mighty dragon, who has bestowed you with a fraction of its terrifying power. The details of the arrangement varies widely - a metallic dragon may have made the pact to create a force of good or save a life, a chromatic dragon may have made their pact with you in exchange for service... or part of some manipulative plan that the minds of lesser mortals would struggle to comprehend.

Most often these bonds are granted by ancient dragons steeped in immense power and knowledge, but sometimes partnerships of the lesser mortals and younger dragons have been recorded in more unique cases.

At 6th level, when you deal the elemental damage type you selected as part of Dragon blast to a creature, you can inflict an additional elemental ailment based on the elemental type. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, regaining all uses on a long rest.

Starting at 10th level, when you take a long rest, at the end of the long rest you gain 1 temporary hit points for each 100 gold pieces in your possession, up to a maximum of your Warlock level.

Additionally at 10th level, you gain resistance to the damage type selected for your Draconic Blast.

Starting at 14th level, as an action you can take a form reminiscent of your patron, becoming a dragon for 1 minute. You grow mighty horns, thick scales, wings, wicked claws, fangs, and a lashing tail. Any creatures of your choice within 30 feet that witnesses the transformation must make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC, or become frightened until the start of your next turn. While in this form, you gain the following benefits:

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

Warlocks who venerate a Great Wyrm are bestowed with powers that emulate those of their draconic patrons. Their patrons share their blood with these warlocks, slowly transforming their physical forms as they gain draconic features like claws and even wings, as well as the senses and frightful presence of their mighty master.

Starting at 6th level, you become dragonlike in your nature. You gain the Draconic Ancestry, and associated Breath Weapon and Damage Resistance traits of the Dragonborn race.

Starting at 10th level, you gain blindsight 30 ft. Additionally, you sense the presence of any treasure worth over 100 gold pieces within 120 feet of you. This ability merely reveals that treasure is present. You don't learn the location of the treasure, but you do learn its general value. This ability can't locate treasure if any thickness of lead, even a thin sheet, blocks a direct path between you and the object.

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to sprout a pair of dragon wings from your back, gaining a fly speed equal to your walking speed. You can create these wings as a bonus action on your turn. They last until you dismiss them as a bonus action on your turn. You can't manifest your wings while wearing armor unless the armor is made to accommodate them, and clothing not made to accommodate your wings might be destroyed when you manifest them.

Additionally at 14th level, you can channel the dread presence of your dragon ancestor, causing those around you to become frightened. As an action, you can draw on this power and exude an aura of fear to a distance of 60 feet. For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were concentrating on a spell), each hostile creature that starts its turn in this aura must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC or be frightened until the aura ends. A creature that succeeds on this saving throw is immune to your aura for 24 hours. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Some Warlocks make pacts with ancient gods, others with fiendish devils, or even just a plain old talking sword. But not you, no uou choose to make a pact with the crackling energy that forms the Eldritch Blast spell itself. Is it a god, some primordial power, or just an idea? Who knows? Regardless of your reason for such a bizzare pact, you've gained an unparalleled mastery and understanding of the Eldritch Blast spell.

Starting at 6th level, you can use your reaction to cast Eldritch Blast in an attempt to deflect a weapon when you are hit by a melee attack. When you do so, the damage yo utake from the attack is reduced by the damage from your Eldritch Blast.

If you reduce the damage to 0, you disarm the target, forcing it to drop the weapon used in the attack.

Starting at 10th level, you can spend 1 spell slot to unleash a barrage of Eldritch Blasts at a point you can see within the range of your Eldritch Blast. Each creature in a 60-foot-radius sphere centered on the point you choose must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 10d10 force damage on a failed save and half as much damage on a successful one.

The damage increases by 1d10 for each Warlock level you have above 10.

Starting at 14th level, you can spend 2 spell slots to enhance your body with a cloak of crackling energy. You gain the following benefits for 1 minute.

Eldritch Champion power comes from a pact you've made with an otherwordly powerful warrior. It might be from a powerful Knights of the Past, or your power comes from a powerful Demon General from The Abyss or Nine Hells, or you gain your power through a deal with a powerful celestial that need a champion to do some biddings. As their champion, you're bestowed with a power that will help you carry on your task and bidding for that being. When you gain the power of an Eldritch Champion, you're granted with a martial prowess that'll aid you in a battle comes, along with the power to help you strike down your foes, or protect you from upcoming harm, the power that ensure you will finish your task for your patron.

Your patron power allow you to extend your bond with any armor and shield you deemed suitable to help you on your goals. Starting at 6th level, you can transform one armor and/or one shield into your pact armor by performing a special ritual while you hold the armor and/or shield. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. You can then dismiss the armor and the shield, shunting it into an extradimensional space. You can instantly don or dismiss the armor and/or the shield using your action. Both of them ceases being your pact armor if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual on a different armor or shield, or if you use a 1-hour ritual to break your bond to it. The armor and/or the shield appears at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space when the bond breaks.

You become proficient with your pact armor and/or shield. You can use the shield as your warlock spellcasting focus and you can perform the somatic components of spells even when you have weapon and your shield from your Pact Armor in both hands. You can substitute and use your Charisma instead of Strength for the prerequisite of your pact armor if it have any. If you take Pact of the Blade option, you can manifest or dismiss both of your pact weapon and pact armor at a same time as part of same action.

You have power to create a magical barrier which protect you from harm. Starting at 10th level, whenever a creature attempt to hits you with an attack or force you to make a saving throw, you can use your reaction to grant bonus to your AC or saving throw (your choice) equals to your Charisma modifier. The bonus will last until the start of your next turn.

After you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or a long rest, or after you cast a spell using your warlock spell slot.

At 14th level, you can use your bonus action to tap into the great power of your patron. Greatly enhancing both of your martial prowess and magical power, and enhance your ability to combine both of them. For 1 minute, or until you're incapacitated you will gain this benefit:

After you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest. You also regain the use of this feature after you cast a spell from your Mystic Arcanum feature.

A fandom is a capricious force, a collection of people with whom you have a connection. Perhaps you were an entertaining jokester, a serious force of personality, or a hateable asshole. Regardless, you have become the center of attention. If deities gain their power through worship, then you gain yours through viewership.

Whether through ritual or pact, you forged this connection, and now your fate is intertwined with your audience. Of course, fandoms are a fickle force, and are quick to abandon those that fail to fascinate them. So, be a rowdy game streamer, a flirtatious hottie, a righteous reporter, a director of Internet drama.

Be anything, except boring.

At 6th level, you can exaggerate or accentuate your personality while surrendering your dignity or sanity. When you make a Charisma ability check you can choose to roll an additional d20 after you roll the die, but before the outcome is determined. You choose which of the d20s is used for the ability check, and you take psychic damage equal to half your warlock level. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

At 10th level, you can ignore the effects of the exhaustion condition until you suffer level 6 exhaustion. At level 6 exhaustion, you die.

Additionally, you gain proficiency in Constitution saving throws.

At 14th level, you can harness the unpredictable and dangerous passion your fandom has for you into a physical manifestation. As an action, you summon a Swarm of Fandom in an unoccupied space you can see within 60 feet of you. It is a swarm of tiny celestial, fey, or fiend creatures (your choice). The swarm disappears when it drops to 0 hit points, or after 1 minute.

Roll initiative for the swarm, which has its own turns. When you summon it and on each of your turns thereafter until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell), you can issue a verbal command to it as a bonus action, telling it what it must do on its next turn. If you issue no command, it spends its turn pursuing and attacking the nearest creature that has damaged it.

If you lose concentration, your control of the swarm ends for the rest of the duration, and the swarm spends its turns pursuing and attacking the nearest creatures to the best of its ability. As an action, you can dismiss the swarm, causing it to disappear. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

You have made a pact with a Fiend from the depths of hell, whose skin you have bonded to your own, affording you a hideous appearance and wicked arcane power. To do this you performed and survived the blasphemous Ritual of Bonding, a foul rite that agonizingly kills most that undertake it. You now wear the essence of a fiend as a second skin, bonded inseparably in body and soul to a beast of hell.

At 6th level, when you are struck with a blow, your fiend skin can toughen and become like armor. When a creature attacks you, you can as a reaction temporarily increase your armor class by 3, to a maximum of 20, and you have resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage until the beginning of your next turn. You must finish a short or long rest before using this feature again.

At 10th level, your fiend skin has become thicker. You gain resistance to fire damage and cold damage.

By 14th level, you fiend skin has begun to intertwine with your blood, closing your wounds as soon as they open. At the beginning of your turn, if you have taken damage since the end of your last turn, you regain hit points equal to your proficiency bonus, to a maximum of the damage you took.

A Warlock of the Flesh has made a pact with an entity so alien and unknown that its mere existence is enough to cause madness in most people. These warlocks have allowed an alien entity to inhabit their bodies, answering to some ancient and eldritch thing from beyond comprehension. This entity creates a symbiotic relationship with the host, granting them powers while reshaping and twisting their form.

When you choose your reshaped form, you can choose any two options available to you.

You gain the following additional options when you take on a reshaped form:

You gain the following additional options when you take on a reshaped form:

You can choose any three available options when you transform using your Reshape Flesh feature. Additionally, you are immune to any spell or effect that would alter your form against your will.

Your patron needs you just as much as you need them. The phoenix chick saved you and you saved them. In exchange for the love, affection, and succor that you give the phoenix, it imparts you with what powers it can spare. As it grows up and recovers its might, the power it offers grows in strength and size as well. The phoenix may make difficult requests of you, but it is not actively antagonistic in the same way that the Fiend or the Archfiend may be.

Upon reaching 6th level, the playtime shared between you and the phoenix chick develops a special, tangible power. If you and up to five friendly creatures spend at least 10 minutes during a short or long rest playing with the phoenix chick, each creature gains temporary hit points equal to half your warlock level + your Charisma modifier.

At 10th level, you gain the ability to sprout wings of flame. As a bonus action, you gain a 40-foot fly speed for a number of minutes equal to your levels in this class. You can end this effect at any time without using an action. While active, you must spend your fly time in one minute increments. You regain all of your used flying time after finishing a long rest.

After you reach 14th level, when you make a death saving throw at the start of your turn, you can instead burst into radiant flames. You regain hit points equal to your levels in this class + your Charisma modifier, and then stand up if you so choose. Each creature of your choice that is within 30 feet of you takes 3d10 fire damage and 3d10 radiant damage. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Guardians of the divine and untenable, couatls are a delicate, yet fastidious species that, thanks to their celestial nature, quite literally embody goodness. Breeding rarely, young couatls, known as couatl neonates, are often in great danger as the auspices of their birth usually mean at least one of their parents is in mortal danger. In cases where both parents perish before the egg hatches, these highly intelligent creatures will seek out an individual to broker a deal with. Their terms are fair and their preferences picky. Warlocks of couatl neonates find that they value fastidiousness, are disappointed when their warlocks lie or withhold information, and seek to find their purpose in life.

Upon reaching 6th level, the playtime shared between you and the couatl neonate develops a special, tangible power. If you and up to five friendly creatures spend at least 10 minutes during a short or long rest playing with the couatl neonate, you all become psychically linked. For the next four hours, you and each creature who shares this psychic link can communicate telepathically with one another while within 120 feet of each other.

At 10th level, while you and the couatl neonate are within 100 feet of each other, you are both immune to scrying and to any effects that would sense your emotions, read your thoughts, or detect your locations.

When you reach 14th level, you gain the ability to bestow yourself with your companion's eyes. As a bonus action, you can grant yourself a facsimile of couatl eyes. You gain truesight out to a range of 60 feet for one hour. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Just moments after emerging from its thick, plated egg, a dragon turtle is already the size of a large dog. Dragon Turtles are methodical patrons that urge caution and slow progress over quick bursts of frantic energy. These greedy creatures often "demand" a portion of their warlock's shiniest treasures in exchange for their continued service, often withholding the fact that the power given cannot be taken away.

Upon reaching 6th level, the playtime shared between you and the dragon turtle develops a special, tangible power. If you and up to five friendly creatures spend at least 10 minutes during a short or long rest playing with the dragon turtle you can choose between bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. You and the creatures who played with the dragon turtle gain resistance to the chosen damage type for the next two hours.

At 10th level, you gain the ability to breath a 30-foot cone of scalding steam as an action. Each creature in that area must make a Constitution saving throw against your Warlock spell save DC. Creatures take 5d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one. Being underwater doesn't grant resistance against this damage.

When you reach 14th level, you gain the longevity of the dragon turtle. You do not suffer the fragility of old age, and you can't be aged magically. You can still die of old age, however. Additionally, you become immune to first five levels of the exhausted condition.

Grandmother hags never stop scheming and relish the assistance of a minion...warlock...same thing. They train assistants inclined toward herbalism, animal care, spellwork, and menace. With time, these warlocks rely upon their grandmothers for magical gifts.

Hags are involved patrons. Quick to punish her warlocks for acting against her interests, a hag patron is opinionated and dedicated to molding her "grandchildren." Warlocks who have an entire coven mentoring them typically also have to work around inter-coven politics, with each hag using the warlock to gain advantage over the other hags.

Starting at 6th level, your patron grants you one of her favorite abilities to expedite your escape or spy on your foes.

Beginning at 10th level, when taking on your Horrifying Appearance, your claws are empowered with the fear of your enemies. Your claws deal an extra 2d8 psychic damage on a hit, plus an additional 3d8 psychic damage if the target is frightened.

Your Horrifying Appearance now lasts a number of minutes equal to your warlock level.

While your Horrifying Appearance is active, you can't be charmed or frightened.

Starting at 14th level, you torment and bewilder your foes in a style according to your patron's hag type.

Your patron is connected to a powerful hive mind psychic entity that, either by forcibly affecting your judgement or through symbiotic agreement, uses you as an additional body in their complex and unfathomable connected organism.

Being connected to such a labyrinthine mind comes with advantages and disadvantages. Thoughts and visions flicker in your mind constantly, and it is a daily struggle to maintain your own mind in such conditions. However, the things you can learn and the sensations you experience are unlike anything any other creature can begin to comprehend.

At 6th level, you gain access to the collective intelligence of the hive mind. At the end of your short rest, select two skills; you gain proficiency in these skills until the end of your next short rest. If you already had proficiency in these skills, your proficiency bonus for these skills is doubled.

Once per short rest, you can tap into the hive mind for insight. As an action, you enter a communicative trance for one minute. During this time, you gain advantage on ability checks other than Perception as the hive mind takes over your bodily functions and streamlines your thought processes for you; however due to the influx of information, you gain disadvantage on Perception checks. This effect ends early if you take any form of damage.

Starting at 10th level, you gain proficiency in intelligence saving throws. Additionally, once per round, the chosen creatures from your Shared Mind feature can gain a bonus to any intelligence, wisdom, or charisma saving throw equal to your charisma modifier.

If they pass the intelligence, wisdom, or charisma saving throw for which the bonus applied, they gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency modifier. These hit points disappear at the end of your next turn.

Starting at 14th level, as an action, you can issue a telepathic command to one of your chosen creatures subject to the Shared Mind feature that isn't incapacitated. The creature will immediately either make a weapon attack against a creature you choose that you can see, impose disadvantage on attack rolls against them, or move up to their full movement speed.

If they make a weapon attack as part of this command, they gain a bonus to the attack roll equal to your charisma modifier.

The Hunter in Darkness is an entity that sees all creatures as prey and enjoys instilling fear in its prey. It prefers intelligent prey over mere beasts, as their fear tastes so much sweeter. Hunters who display impressive prowess for hunting pique its interest. The Hunter in Darkness often bestows its power on such individuals to spread fear further than the Hunter can by itself.

Though your patron isn't mindless, it cares only for the thrill of the hunt and the spreading of fear. It cares not what you do with the power it grants you beyond that. Your connection with the Hunter can sometimes cause changes in your worldview. You might view every creature you meet as either predator or prey, or you might face problems with a "kill or be killed" attitude.

When you select your pact boon at 3rd level, it is altered by your patron in the following ways.

Beginning at 6th level, you can disappear into darkness and reappear next to an enemy. As a bonus action while in dim light or darkness, you can disappear in a puff of inky smoke and reappear in an unoccupied space that is also in dim light or darkness within 5 feet of a creature within 30 feet of you. If that creature is frightened and you attack it, you have advantage on the attack roll. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Beginning at 10th level, your patron's constant hunger for fear inures you to it. You are immune to being frightened. In addition, when you are in dim light or darkness and you hit a creature with a weapon attack, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or be frightened of you for 1 minute or until it takes any damage.

Starting at 14th level, if you reduce a target to 0 hp with a weapon attack, you can use a bonus action to force each ally of the target within 30 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failure, the creature is frightened of you for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. If a creature is immune to being frightened, it is instead stunned until the end of its next turn. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

The legends tell that Karsus was once a mortal spellcaster, one of the strongest who ever lived. Using his magic, he attempted to usurp a goddess of magic from her throne. Remarkably, he succeeded, but his not yet immortal body could not bear wielding the goddess's unfathomable power. He erupted into pure magical energy, leaving behind no traces save for the wound the explosion left on the very tapestry of magic. Unfortunately, as a now divine soul, he was not accepted into any afterlife, and was doomed to an eternal existence in the Void.

Though he achieved some measure of distraction from the endlessness of the Void from the few binders that can contact him, Karsus despises them: after all, he was once a god, even if only for a moment, and being forced to act at the whim of an impertinent mortal is nearly too much to bear. To this end, he makes more solid pacts with those few who can both contact him and who would bow in supplication before him: while warlocks are neither believers nor worshipers, they are at least short-sighted enough to serve only him.

Starting at 6th level, when a creature you can see within 30 feet casts a spell, you can cast the spell counterspell without expending a spell slot or spell components. After using this ability, you must take a short or long rest before using it again.

At 10th level you gain resistance to damage dealt by spells.

At 14th level, Karsus rewards your persistence and loyalty by granting you access to magic other warlocks can merely dream about. Select one spell of 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th level from the wizard spell list: when you use your Mystic Arcanum feature for that spell level, you can use this spell instead of your Mystic Arcanum spell. Additionally, you can use your 6th and 7th level Mystic Arcanum spells each one additional time between rests.

The legends tell that Karsus was once a mortal spellcaster, one of the strongest who ever lived. Using his magic, he attempted to usurp a goddess of magic from her throne. Remarkably, he succeeded, but his not yet immortal body could not bear wielding the goddess's unfathomable power. He erupted into pure magical energy, leaving behind no traces save for the wound the explosion left on the very tapestry of magic. Unfortunately, as a now divine soul, he was not accepted into any afterlife, and was doomed to an eternal existence in the Void.

Though he achieved some measure of distraction from the endlessness of the Void from the few binders that can contact him, Karsus despises them: after all, he was once a god, even if only for a moment, and being forced to act at the whim of an impertinent mortal is nearly too much to bear. To this end, he makes more solid pacts with those few who can both contact him and who would bow in supplication before him: while warlocks are neither believers nor worshipers, they are at least short-sighted enough to serve only him.

Starting at 6th level, when a creature you can see within 30 feet casts a spell, you can cast the spell counterspell without expending a spell slot or spell components. After using this ability, you must take a short or long rest before using it again.

At 10th level you gain resistance to damage dealt by spells.

At 14th level, Karsus rewards your persistence and loyalty by granting you access to magic other warlocks can merely dream about. Select one spell of 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th level from the wizard spell list: when you use your Mystic Arcanum feature for that spell level, you can use this spell instead of your Mystic Arcanum spell. Additionally, you can use your 6th and 7th level Mystic Arcanum spells each one additional time between rests.

You have made a pact with a kraken that lurks somewhere in the depths. Krakens are ancient and terrifying creatures; incomprehensible alien knowledge lurks within their minds. Krakens are known to control the rain and storms in areas that surround them, and curse the sailors above.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to call upon your patron to escape from your foes. As a reaction when you take damage, you can cast Darkness centered on a point within 5 feet of you. The spell lasts until the end of your next turn, and it has no effect on your vision. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

At 10th level, your patron accepts you into its inner court of servitors. You gain the ability to breathe water and a swim speed equal to your normal speed. you gain resistance to cold and lightning damage. Whenever you take lightning damage from an enemy you can use your reaction to cause creatures of your choice that you can see within 30 feet of you to take lightning damage equal to your Charisma modifier + your proficiency bonus.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to call upon your patron for aid. As an action, you open a portal at a point you can see within 30 feet of you, and a mass of gigantic tentacles slam onto your foes. Pick up to 5 creatures that you can see within 30 feet of the portal. Those creatures must make Dexterity saving throws against your warlock spell save DC. Creatures that fail their saving throw take 10d6 bludgeoning damage and are restrained for 1 minute. Those that succeed take half the bludgeoning damage and are not restrained. On its turn, a restrained creature can use its action to attempt a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to end the restrained condition.

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

Your patron is Lolth, queen of the dark fey. She rules over the drow that dwell within the Feywild, and commands the loyalty of all hags. Evil fey pay her respect, though not all obey her edicts. She is a sworn enemy of Torog, due to the constant threat he and his minions pose to her Underdark domains.

At 6th level, you gain the ability to use a shard of Lolth's alien beauty, causing other creatures to become enraptured by your appearance. As a bonus action, pick a creature you can see. That creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or become charmed by you. While charmed, it also gains vulnerability to poison damage. This benefit lasts for one minute or until you or your allies damages the creature. Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

At 10th level, Lolth extends her protection to you while you are in her favored form. You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from non-magical sources while in your spider form.

Starting at 14th level, you can channel Lolth's malevolence into a deadly kiss. As an action, you touch a creature within your reach. The target takes 12d10 poison or psychic damage (your choice), or half as much on a successful Constitution save. A creature charmed by you has disadvantage on its saving throw. After you use this ability, you cannot cast it again until you complete a long rest.

You have made a pact with the demon lord Jubilex or another powerful slime that resides in the Underdark. Followers of this pact have their skin and blood become corrosive, and as the pact grows stronger, can shift into a gelatinous form.

Starting at 6th level, your patron's corrosive slime runs through your veins. You have resistance to acid damage.

In addition, as a reaction when you take piercing or slashing damage, you cause acid to spray from your wound; each creature within 5 feet of you takes acid damage equal to half your warlock level.

Starting at 10th level, your patron grants you the ability to enter a liquid state while moving. When you move on your turn, you take only half damage from opportunity attacks, and you can move through any enemy's space but can't willingly end your move there.

On your turn, you can move through any space that is at least 3 inches in diameter and do so without squeezing. When you stop moving, the regular squeezing rules apply if you're in a space one size smaller than you. You can't willingly stop in a space smaller than that, and if you're forced to do so, you immediately flow to the nearest space that can fit you, back along the path of your movement.

Starting at 14th level, as an action you can cover a 20 foot square on the ground centered within 60 feet of you with ooze. The ooze lasts for 1 minute and has the following effects.

The covered area is difficult terrain. When the ooze appears, each creature standing in its area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or its movement speed is reduced to 0 and it takes 3d6 acid damage. A creature that enters the area or ends its turn there must also succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 acid damage and its movement speed is reduced to 0.

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

Universal suffering has given rise to an enigmatic being known as the Mother of Sorrows, and warlocks who bind themselves to her cause seek to spread her poisonous vengeance. The Mother of Sorrows was born from the suffering of parents who have lost children to pestilence, disease, and treachery, and her gifts grant warlocks the power to avenge the thousands of sorrows laid at her feet.

Starting at 6th level, you can take vengeance on those who harm you. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to attempt to poison the creature that damaged you. The triggering creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your warlock spell save DC or become poisoned for 1 minute. An affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the condition on a success.

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

Starting at 10th level, your poisonous magic has infused your body. You are immune to disease, poison damage, and the poisoned condition.

Starting at 14th level, when you hit a creature with an attack, you can use this feature to infuse the target with your sorrow. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw or be paralyzed and poisoned for 24 hours. The creature remains paralyzed until it takes damage or is no longer poisoned.

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

You have made a pact with the ancient intelligence of a primeval forest. Before the rise of human civilization, before the time of the elves, before even the dragons, there were the forests. Empires rise and fall around them, but the forests remain as a testament to nature's endurance.

However, times are changing, and the unchecked growth of civilization threatens the green. The intelligences that imbue the antediluvian forests seek emissaries in the world that can act beyond their boughs, and one has heard your call for power. You are a guardian of the Old Wood, a questing branch issuing from a vast, slumbering intelligence sent to act on its behalf, perhaps even to excise these lesser beings from its borders.

When you select your pact boon at 3rd level, it is altered by your patron in the following ways.

Starting at 6th level, you are able to cast pass without trace without expending a spell slot. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest. In addition, difficult terrain caused by roots, underbrush, and other natural forest terrain costs you no extra movement. You can pass through nonmagical plants without being slowed by them and without taking damage from them if they have thorns, spines, or a similar hazard.

At 10th level, your patron has suffused your body with a portion of its ability to withstand harmful magic. You gain resistance to damage from spells of a level you can cast or lower.

Starting at 14th level, you can channel the power of the forest to physically transform, taking on many of its aspects. Your legs, arms, and torso elongate, your body becomes covered in thick, dark bark, and branches sprout from your head as your hair recedes. You can transform as a bonus action and the transformation lasts 1 minute. While transformed, you gain the following benefits:

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

You have made a pact with a powerful ooze, gaining the ability to summon and control the primordial essence of slime and ooze. As you gain power, you become more like your patron: your body taking on slimy and gelatinous features.

Starting at 6th level, you can easily channel the melting powers of your patron. You have resistance to acid damage, and when you cast a spell that deals acid damage, you can add your Charisma modifier to one damage roll of that spell.

Starting at 10th level, your resistance to acid damage evolves to immunity to acid damage. Additionally, when you use Adaptive Absorption against a melee weapon attack, the triggering attacker takes 3d6 acid damage.

when you would drop to 0 hit points, you can instead explode into drops of ooze (no action required). All creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw, or take 3d6 + your Charisma modifier acid damage, after which you leave behind a number of small acidic blobs equal to your Charisma modifier. Each one has an AC of 8, and 10 hit points, each placed in the closest available space to where to where you were before dividing. The blobs are creatures. They automatically fail all strength and dexterity saving throws, but use your statistics for other saving throws. At the start of your next turn, all remaining blobs combine to reform your body, granting you hit points equal to their combined hit points. If all of them were destroyed, you reform at 0 hit points.

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

The Dragon Student is an unusual patron, as you are the one teaching it. Your power comes from your dragon student, but it is you who helps it harness this awesome power. Technically this power comes from Io, the dragon primordial of creation, who gifted this power as an otherworldly patron. But it's your dragon student who grants it to you directly. This is why you are more warlock than wizard. You are a Dragon Master, a student of the Darastrix Academy.

At a young age you were bonded with a dragon wyrmling, entrusted to you by its dragon parents. Even though you are a student, you are a master in your own right to your dragon wyrmling, as you teach it to harness its power. Due to the bonding, your wyrmling shares your drive to learn its dragon magic quickly, at the cost of other aspects of its draconic might being weakened. Although you are technically a wizard, the bond that you have made with your dragon has granted you access to its dragon magic, but in exchange your own studies towards the arcane have been limited.

However, the ability to delve into the secrets of dragon magic more than makes up for that. Now you and your dragon partner go out on adventures, as you seek to put the power of dragon magic into practice. Most Dragon Masters are human, but half dragons have been known to teach siblings. Brown, celestial, deep, fang, gem, gray, moonstone, song, and steel dragons don't send their young to become dragon students, due to their secretive nature. Your magical bond with your dragon companion grants you access to its powerful dragon magic in addition to your own mortal magic.

For example, a bigby's hand would look like a fist when cast by a humanoid, and as a flaming claw when cast by its red dragon student. And even though you still need to study, most of your magical power comes from this bond. As such, Dragon Masters have a saying when it comes to their dragons: You teach me and I teach you.

At 6th level, your firsthand experience with dragon magic has advanced your own studies substantially, and in return you have taught your dragon how to fly again.

You gain proficiency in Intelligence saving throws, and whenever you make an Intelligence skill check you can add your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) to the check. When you cast a Warlock spell yourself that affects other creatures that you can see, you can choose a number of them equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1). The chosen creatures automatically succeed on their saving throws against the spell and take no damage from the spell.

In addition, your dragon gains a flying speed of 30 feet. While your dragon is carrying a rider, it can't use the flying speed of this feature until you reach 14th level in this class.

At 10th level, your student's mastery of dragon magic has reached new heights, as has your bond. When you command your dragon to cast a warlock spell that deals damage, it adds your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1) to one damage roll of that spell.

Moreover, when you or your dragon cast a spell targeting yourselves, you can also affect the other with the spell if you are within 30 feet of each other.

At 14th level, your dragon's flying speed is increased to 50 feet, and it doesn't provoke opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy's reach (nor does its rider).

While you are mounted on your dragon, you can force an attack targeted at you to target your dragon instead, as it shields you from ongoing attacks. Area effects (such as a dragon's breath) still affect the both of you normally.

If you choose the true polymorph spell as your Mystic Arcanum at 17th level, provided the Dragon Student is your patron, then when you cast this spell on your dragon it will willingly transform into a dragon of the same type with a CR equal to or lower than your level. It cannot change into a different creature this way. While your dragon is transformed this way, you no longer need to use your bonus action to issue a command to your dragon. You must still use your action to command your dragon to cast or use a spell. If you have the Dragon Rider invocation, you can use your bonus action to command your dragon to cast a cantrip that way, and it can still use one more action.

It is said that when the spheres were young, two great creations were forged at the same time: The Wildjammer and The First Helm. While The Wildjammer is the first and oldest of all ships that sail the rainbow sea, the First Helm is the artifact from which all Wildjammer Helms are born. Each Wildjammer Helm is connected to the First Helm, constantly sending information back to it from the mind of an attuned Helmsman. The stories say that the First Helm is gathering knowledge for some unspeakable horror to come.

Reasonable people recognize these stories as tall tales. Reasonable people know that countless wizards have investigated that although they can't replicate Wildjammer Helms, there is no sign at all of information being extracted from a Helmsman. Reasonable people don't put much stock in silly, unsubstantiated rumors told by sailors with too much time on their hands.

Reasonable people are wrong.

You know that the First Helm is real. You know that the First Helm has had its hand in the mind of every single person who has ever attuned to a Wildjammer Helm. You have glimpsed the depths of the knowledge it has accrued and recognized that it may know more than even the gods. You don't know what exactly the First Helm seeks or what it values, whether it is benevolent or malevolent, you only know just how much knowledge it has gathered... At this point, the only reasonable thing to do is join it.

Starting at 6th level, you gain resistance to psychic damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

In addition, as a bonus action on your turn, you can temporarily learn a spell from the Warlock spell list that you don't already know. For the next minute, you can cast this spell as if it was one of your known spells. Once you use this ability, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 10th level, as an action you can call upon the power of the First Helm to spontaneously cast a spell you don't know from the Wizard, Sorcerer, or Artificer spell list without expending a spell slot. This spell must have a casting time of 1 action and must be 5th-level or lower. You still need to provide costly components and perform verbal and/or somatic components when casting the spell. After you use this ability, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest.

In addition, your Mystic Arcanum class features count as spell slots for Spell Surge and Hover Sailing.

Starting at 14th level, when you attune to a Wildjammer Helm, you are no longer rendered helpless. So long as you remain within the air envelope of your wildjammer, you can continue to control the wildjammer as if you were sitting on the Helm.

During combat, you can act both as a Helmsman in wildjammer combat and using your character abilities against boarding parties in ground combat.

In addition, you can Quick Attune to a Wildjammer Helm without expending a spell slot.

You can use your action to draw upon the powers of your Patron and create a hex gun in your empty hand. You can choose the form that this spellcasting focus takes each time you create it. It can either be a Sniper or a Revolver (detailed below).

Your hex gun disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss it (no action required), or if you die.

Your hex gun acts as a spellcasting focus, and when you cast cantrips with it, it channels them as bullets (these still count as spells). Instead of increasing the damage of the cantrip when you reach certain levels, you can cast the cantrip additional times as part of the same action (except for Eldritch Blast, which is cast as normal). To be cast in this way the cantrip must deal damage, it must make a spell attack or require a saving throw, and have a range other than self.

You can fire a cantrip in this manner 2 times at level 5, 3 times at level 11, and 4 times at level 17. If you do, the cantrip can deal its base damage more than once, but its other effects cannot be applied again.

At 1th level, you can fire a cantrip in this manner 1 times.

At 5th level, you can fire a cantrip in this manner 2 times.

At 11th level, you can fire a cantrip in this manner 3 times.

At 17th level, you can fire a cantrip in this manner 4 times.

When a warlock enters a pact with a patron from Mechanus, their abilities do not attain new heights as much as they take on a certain level of repetitive reliability.

Starting at 6th level you have advantage on saving throws to avoid being charmed, frightened, or magically compelled.

In addition, when you spend warlock hit dice to regain hit points as part of a short rest, you can use this feature to take half the die's maximum value instead of rolling. You still apply your Constitution modifier or any additional modifiers to this value as if you had expended hit dice normally.

Beginning at 10th level, when a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see makes a saving throw you can use your reaction to change the result of the creature's d20 roll to 10 before applying any other modifiers. You can do this after the initial result of the creature's saving throw is known.

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

Upon reaching 14th level you can use a bonus action to give your attacks uniformity for the next minute. During this time, your weapon and spell attacks automatically hit any creature with an Armor Class equal to or less than 10 + your Proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier without making an attack roll. If the creature's armor class exceeds this value, your attack roll is made normally. Regardless of whether you must make an attack roll or not, your attacks cannot score a critical hit while this effect is active. You can end the effect early as a bonus action. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Some who search for power settle on lesser gods or demon lords, others delve into deeper mysteries until they touch elder entities. These great entities build worlds, crafting mountains and species as if sculpting clay, or annihilate them utterly. Embodying creation, destruction, and the land itself, your patron is an ancient power beyond mortal understanding.

Primordials stand in opposition to the Great Old Ones, the other side of the scale that maintains the balance of reality. Your primordial patron speaks to you in the language of omens, dreams, or intuition, and may call upon you to defend the natural world, to root out the forces of the Void, or even to manipulate seemingly random people or locations for reasons known only to their unfathomable purpose. While you can't grasp the full measure of your patron's designs, as long as your bond is strong, there is nothing that can stand in your way.

At 6th level, you learn to channel the reality-bending powers of your patron to avoid attacks. When a creature you can see attacks only you, you can use your reaction to redirect the attack to a target of your choice within range of the attacker's weapon or spell. If no other target is within range, you can't redirect the attack.

If the attack is from a spell of 4th level or higher, you must succeed on an ability check using your spellcasting ability to redirect it. The DC equals

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

At 10th level, your bond with your patron protects you by adapting itself when you are injured. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to gain resistance to the triggering damage type until the start of your next turn. If you expend a spell slot as part of this reaction, the resistance lasts for a number of rounds equal to your proficiency bonus. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

At 14th level, you learn to direct the weight of your patron's infinite gaze onto the unworthy. You can use an action to cause of the following effects. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.

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, called That Which Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.

At 6th level, you can push the boat out on the black seas of infinity, risking everything to gain power untold. When you cast a warlock spell, you can attempt to do so without expending a spell slot by drawing power from your patron's realm.

The first time you do so, you suffer no adverse effect. If you use this feature again before you finish a long rest, make a spellcasting ability check. In secret, your DM makes the same roll to set the DC. The DM may instead choose the DC, depending on the relationship between your warlock and your patron.

On a success, you cast the spell normally, and then you immediately roll on the Long-Term Madness table. If you fail, the same occurs, but you double the duration of the madness.

Starting at 10th level, your thoughts can't be read by telepathy or other means unless you allow it. You also have resistance to psychic damage, and whenever a creature deals psychic damage to you, that creature takes the same amount of damage that you do. In addition, if an effect causes you to roll on the madness tables, you roll twice and pick either outcome.

At 14th level, 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 then 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.

Starting at 6th level you manipulate the space in ones shadows. Once per short rest, you may target a dead creature of equal or lower CR/Level and summon a shadow of it that uses the creatures stat block, this shadow obeys you while it is summoned and is banished after a minute.

You may spend an hour attuning to a creatures shadow by preforming a ritual on its corpse. For the next day you may summon that creature again without it's body's presence.

If you preform this ritual for 30 days consecutivley you can permenantly summon the shadow.

When you are in darkness of any kind, a 10ft radius around you is treated as magical darkness. You and your allies can see in this darkness.

Once per short rest you may produce this 10 ft of magical darkeness at will.

At 14th level, you gain the ability to manipulate the living or dead through the shadows. You may touch an unconsious, incapacitated, or dead creature, it becomes your Puppet.

The Puppet remains in the state it was in and does everything you tell it to, be it speak, take an action, or cast a spell as normal.

Only a remove curse, or wish spell can remove this effect and you may only have one Puppet at a time.

Starting at 6th level, you can pour hellfire into the weapons you wield while transformed. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can cause the attack to deal an extra 1d8 fire damage to the target.

While transformed, you now have resistance to fire damage, and no longer need to breathe.

Starting at 10th level, you have mastered the Spirit of Vengeance's racing spirit, and you can push mounts and vehicles beyond their normal limit. When mounted and transformed, your mount's speed is increased by 10, its jump distance is doubled, its AC is increased by 2, it has resistance to fire damage, and you have advantage on checks to stay on your mount.

In addition, when you are driving/piloting a vehicle that you are proficient with, its speed is increased by 1/4.

Starting at 14th level, you can make eye contact with a creature within 30 ft. and cause it to feel the pain of all of those it has hurt in its lifetime. Make a spell attack against your target, and on a hit, the target is stunned. The target can make a Wisdom saving throw at the end of each of its turns and the effect ends on a successful saving throw. If target is evil takes 10d10 psychic damage, if the target is neutral it takes 5d10 psychic damage, and if the target is good it takes no damage. When a creature is killed by this ability, its body turns to ash.

This ability has no effect on beasts, creatures who are blinded, or constructs.

On a successful use of this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

In every library there is a book that has never been read, a section that has never been seen, and a hallway that leads to nowhere–yet, you have managed to read that tome of unspoken secrets, find that shelf of unholy blasphemies, and step beyond the dead-end corridor into the Accursed Archive, where you have become bound to the nightmareinducing writings within. Demonology, blood magic, and the summoning of things from beyond are among the most mundane of topics here, but draw the eye and call to the hand nonetheless. By some malignant intelligence that selects only the most desperate, the most ambitious, and the most willing to sacrifice, the Accursed Archive collects souls to do its ruinous work: to share the terrible truths that reside upon its endless shelves, and bring chaos and upheaval to the outside world through the disclosure of these forgotten secrets.

At 6th level, you've learned to read your servants and adversaries as easily as the scrolls located within the darkest places of the Accursed Archive and can twist them to serve your cruel whims.

As an action, touch a creature within reach. The target must make a Charisma saving throw with a DC equal to your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they are paralyzed until the end of your next turn, and their flesh peels back into the pages of a book bound underneath their skin. The words within describe who they are and what they have done, and you can read up to six different sentences from them, prioritizing details you wish to learn. While the creature is paralyzed, you have advantage on Charisma and Intelligence checks relating to the creature and it has disadvantage on Charisma and Wisdom checks.

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

At 10th level, 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.

Once you do so, you cannot do so again until 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. Whenever you cast your chosen spell, you gain immunity to the frightened condition. This immunity lasts until you finish a short or long rest.

At 14th level, you discover the real purpose of the Accursed Archive–the spread of information that will bring ruin to the world. As an action, you can share an unspeakable truth with all creatures that can hear you within 60 feet of you. All hostile creatures who can hear and understand your words must make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they are driven mad and suffer confusion as though affected by the confusion spell for one minute. They can repeat this saving throw each time they suffer damage, ending the effect on a success.

When you do this, choose up to four creatures within 60 feet of you that you can see. These creatures are infused with dark power that distorts the fabric of reality. Choose one spell you can cast of 2nd level or lower that inflicts damage and has a casting time of one action or bonus action. Each infused creature can use their reaction to cast this spell immediately without using verbal, somatic, or material components. Charisma is their spellcasting modifier for this spell.

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

Your patron is an elder true dragon, a winged reptile of equal majesty and dread who has seen the rise and fall of empires. Each of these dragons yearns, ultimately, for one thing above all others. The further expansion of their hoards, an effort it may very well expect you to assist and provide for. Each of these beings requires something somewhat unique, and the methods of its retrieval vary equally so. The table below can be used to discover which dragon your patron in particular might be, or merely as a guide for a discussion on the most appropriate one, between you and your DM.

6th-level The Ancient Dragon feature

Starting at 6th level, when a creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to fly up to 30 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. When you fly in this way, gas or vapor within 5 feet of you is dispersed, and candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames are extinguished. Until the end of your next turn, you have a flying speed of 30 feet. You fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft. Once you have used this feature, you can't do so again until you have completed a short or long rest.

10th-level The Ancient Dragon feature

Beginning at 10th level, you are immune to being frightened, and you have advantage on the saving throws of spells cast by creatures that are frightened.

14th-level The Ancient Dragon feature

Starting at 14th level, you gain access to a lair of your very own. As an action you can touch a solid surface and create an opening no more than 10 feet in any dimension. The opening leads to an extradimensional space of your own design that is no more than 100 feet in each dimension, constructed of wood, stone, and similar materials. The opening lasts until you use your action to create a new opening, at which point the old one immediately vanishes. Objects created by this feature disappear if removed from the lair. After creating an opening to your lair, you must complete a long rest before you can do so again.

It has been your privilege to make a pact with an ancient dragon of untold power. They reside elsewhere--on an Elemental Plane, in the Elemental Chaos, or in a demiplane of their own creation, for example--but you are their emissary and agent on the Material Plane. Your patron has charged you with furthering their agenda, which generally amounts to glorifying their name, spreading respect for dragonkind, and gathering wealth on their behalf. In exchange for your loyalty and regular tribute, your patron grants you a sliver of their magical influence and prowess.

As dragons are ambitious creatures, and only grow more so as they age, your patron is virtually guaranteed to have one or more rivals of comparable might. They might seek to outdo or embarrass each other, or eliminate each other's forces in a centuries-long game of cat-and-mouse. Whatever their intrigues may be, you are a crucial part of them, though the details may be kept from you.

Notable dragons that you may have the pleasure to serve include the gold dragon Lareth, the King of Justice; the red dragon Balagos, the Flying Flame; and the silver dragon Mithbarakaz, the Mithral Shield.