OTHERWORLDLY PATRONS
The Raven Queen
You patron is the Raven Queen, a mysterious being who rules the Shadowfell from a palace of ice deep within that dread realm. The Raven Queen watches over the world, anticipating each creature’s death and ensuring that it meets its end at the proscribed time and place. As the ruler of the Shadowfell, she dwells in a decayed, dark reflection of the world. Her ability to reach into the world is limited. Thus, she turns to mortal warlocks to serve her will. Warlocks swore to the Raven Queen receive visions and whispers from her in their dreams, sending them on quests and warning them of impending dangers. The Raven Queen’s followers are expected to serve her will in the world. She concerns herself with ensuring that those fated to die pass from the world as expected and bids her agents to defeat those who seek to cheat death through undeath or other imitations of immortality. She hates intelligent undead and expects her followers to strike them down, whereas mindless undead such as skeletons and zombies are little more than stumbling automatons in her eyes..
Expanded Spell List
The Raven Queen lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
Raven Queen Expanded Spells
| Spell Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st | false life, sanctuary |
| 2nd | silence, spiritual weapon |
| 3rd | feign death, speak with dead |
| 4th | ice storm, locate creature |
| 5th | commune, cone of cold |
Spirit Raven
Starting at 1st level, you gain the service of a raven familiar. The raven use the same statistics of a normal raven, but his hit points equal to half your maximum hit points. it always obeys your commands, which you can give telepathically while it is within 100 feet of you. You can see through the raven’s eyes and hear what it hears while it is within 100 feet of you.
In combat, you roll initiative for the raven and control how it acts. At the end of a short or long rest, you can rise the raven from the dead no matter where it is or whether it died and it reappears within 5 feet of you. Your raven's bite deals extra damage equal to your charisma modifier as necrotic damage. The raven deals extra 1d4 damage at level 6, 1d6 at level 10, 1d8 at level 14.
Raven Dash
You can become a swarm of ravens and dash through the battlefield biting everyone you touch.
Starting at 6th level, when you take the dash action you became a swarm of ravens during your movement, you gain 50 ft. flying speed (because you are dashing you can fly up to 100 ft.), and you can move through tiny gaps and any creature you touch take 2d10 + your charisma modifier as piercing damage as your swarm of ravens is biting as they move next to the targets.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your charisma modifier, you regain all uses upon finishing a long rest. This damage increases to, 3d10 at level 10, 4d10 at level 14.
Raven’s Shield
At 10th level, the Raven Queen grants you a protective blessing. You gain an advantage on death saving throws, immunity to the frightened condition, and resistance to necrotic damage.
The queen valor
Starting at 14th level, you can channel the Raven Queen’s power and summon an army of ravens to slay your enemies. As an action choose up to 5 enemies you can see within 60 feet of you, you force them to make a dexterity saving throw, on a fail save they take 8d8 necrotic damage plus 20 piercing damage, or half on a successful save.
You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest. At level 18 the damage increases to 8d10+40.
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Eldritch Invocations
At 2nd level, a warlock gains the Eldritch Invocations feature. Here are new options for that patron.
The Power of The Dead
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron
You heal half the necrotic damage your raven deal.
Chronicle of the Raven Queen
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron, Pact of the Tome feature
You can place a corpse’s hand or similar appendage on your Book of Shadows and ask one question aloud. After 1 minute, the answer appears written in blood in your book. The answer is provided by the dead creature’s spirit to the best of its knowledge and is translated into a language of your choice. You must use this ability within 1 minute of a creature’s death, and a given creature can only be asked one question in this manner.
Double Raven
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron, Pact of the Chain feature If you have a raven as your familiar, it gains additional hit points equal to your warlock level, additionally, your spirit raven and your familiar can use their reactions to switch places as long as they are on the same plane of existence.
Life Extractor
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron, Pact of the Blade feature, Lifedrinker invocation
The target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage you deal with your Pact of the Blade feature, and you regain hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.
Channel the dead
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron
when a creature dies within 30 ft. of you, you can use your reaction to gain yourself advantage on attacks rolls on your next turn, gain temporary hit point equal to the creature CR (or level if he doesn’t have CR), and any successful hit you make on your next turn is an automatic critical.
Gift of The Raven Queen
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron.
You can cast polymorph at will, targeting only yourself and changing only to a raven. While in this form you gain proficiency in wisdom (perception) checks.
Multiattack
Prerequisite: 5th level, Raven Queen patron.
When your raven takes the attack action it can attack twice instead of only once.
Raven Queen’s Blessing
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron, eldritch blast cantrip
When you score a critical hit with your eldritch blast cantrip, pick yourself or an ally you can see within 30 feet of you. The chosen creature can immediately expend a Hit Die to regain hit points equal to the roll + the creature’s Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).
Sentinel Raven
Prerequisite: Raven Queen patron
You can command your raven to perched on your shoulder While the raven is perched on your shoulder, you gain darkvision with a range of 30 feet and a bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) score and to Wisdom (Perception) checks. The bonus equals your Charisma modifier. While perched on your shoulder, the raven can’t be targeted by any attack or other harmful effects; only you can cast spells on it; it can’t take damage, and it is incapacitated.
Expert Raven
Prerequisites: 9th level, Raven Queen patron
While your raven is within 60 feet of you, it gains a bonus to AC, attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws equal to your proficiency modifier (the extra damage count as necrotic damage).
Queen’s Right Hand
Prerequisites: 15th level
You can cast finger of death once without expending a spell slot. After you cast the spell with this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest
Crediting
"The Raven Queen" by WesTalbott
