Warlock - The Purple Worm

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Warlock:

The Earthen Devourer

You draw your power from a great subterranean beast that you came into close contact with. Your patron is a purple worm, but not just any purple worm, your patron is the Earthen Devourer. A terrifying beast native to the plane of earth whose body stretches for miles on end, endlessly consuming the earth and creating the tunnels that crisscross the plane. The progenitor of all purple worms that then dug their way through the planar boundaries and into the material plane.

Expanded Spell List

The Earthen Devourer 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.

Earthen Devourer Expanded Spells
Spell Level Spells
1st Thunderwave, detect poison and disease
2nd Enlarge/reduce, earthbind
3rd Erupting earth, wall of sand
4th Stone shape, stoneskin
5th Wall of stone, conjure elemental

Earthen Carver

1st-level Purple Worm feature

As a bonus action, you can cause the spectral form of a purple worm to surround you for 1 minute. For the duration, you gain a burrow speed of 30 feet and while using your burrow speed you have tremorsense out to 10 feet.

Additionally, you cannot dig through magical earth or stone with this burrow speed.

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

Demonplay

Tough Hide

6th-level Purple Worm feature

Your skin hardens and you grow scales similar to those a purple worm possesses. Whenever you take bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, you can as a reaction reduce the amount by a number equal to your Proficiency bonus.

Ravenous Appetite

10th-level Purple Worm feature

Your body's inner workings change to better match that of a purple worms. You can consume nonmagical inorganic material such as gems, metal, and stone without any ill effects. When you do so it counts as if you had normally eaten.

Additionally, whenever you use your Earthen Carver feature you gain temporary hit points equal to your Proficiency bonus at the start of each of your turns for the duration.

Insatiable Worm

14th-level Purple Worm feature

You feel your patrons unending hunger within the earth as it consumes all before it. As an action, you may summon forth the spectral form of massive purple worm to consume a creature that is Large or smaller that you can see within 30 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be swallowed by the worm for 1 minute.

A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside of the worm, and it takes 4d6 acid damage at the start of each of their turns. The swallowed creature can make a Strength saving throw with disadvantage at the beginning of each of their turns. If they succeed, they are regurgitated by the worm into an unoccupied space within 5 feet of it.

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