Warlock

With a pseudodragon curled on his shoulder, a young elf in golden robes smiles warmly, weaving a magical charm into his honeyed words and bending the palace sentinel to his will.

As flames spring to life in her hands, a wizened human whispers the secret name of her demonic patron, infusing her spell with fiendish magic.

Shifting his gaze between a battered tome and the odd alignment of the stars overhead, a wild-eyed tiefling chants the mystic ritual that will open a doorway to a distant world.

Warlocks are seekers of the knowledge that lies hidden in the fabric of the multiverse. Through pacts made with mysterious beings of supernatural power, warlocks unlock magical effects both subtle and spectacular. Drawing on the ancient knowledge of beings such as fey nobles, demons, devils, hags, and alien entities of the Far Realm, warlocks piece together arcane secrets to bolster their own power.

Delvers into Secrets

Warlocks are driven by an insatiable need for knowledge and power, which compels them into their pacts and shapes their lives. This thirst drives warlocks into their pacts and shapes their later careers as well. Stories of warlocks binding themselves to fiends are widely known. But many warlocks serve patrons that are not fiendish. Sometimes a traveller in the wilds comes to a strangely beautiful tower, meets its fey lord or lady, and stumbles into a pact without being fully aware of it. And sometimes, while poring over tomes of forbidden lore, a brilliant but crazed student’s mind is opened to realities beyond the material world and to the alien beings that dwell in the outer void.

Once a pact is made, a warlock’s thirst for knowledge and power can’t be slaked with mere study and research. No one makes a pact with such a mighty patron if he or she doesn’t intend to use the power thus gained. Rather, the vast majority of warlocks spend their days in active pursuit of their goals, which typically means some kind of adventuring. Furthermore, the demands of their patrons drive warlocks toward adventure.

You think me mad? I think true insanity is being content to live a life of mortal drudgery when knowledge and power is there for the taking in the realms beyond.

-Xarren, herald of Acamar

Creating a Warlock

As you make your warlock character, spend some time thinking about your patron and the obligations that your pact imposes upon you. What led you to make the pact, and how did you make contact with your patron? Were you seduced into summoning a devil, or did you seek out the ritual that would allow you to make contact with an alien elder god? Did you search for your patron, or did your patron find and choose you? Do you chafe under the obligations of your pact or serve joyfully in anticipation of the rewards promised to you? Work with your DM to determine how big a part your pact will play in your character’s adventuring career. Your patron’s demands might drive you into adventures, or they might consist entirely of small favours you can do between adventures.

What kind of relationship do you have with your patron? Is it friendly, antagonistic, uneasy, or romantic? How important does your patron consider you to be? What part do you play in your patron’s plans? Do you know other servants of your patron?

How does your patron communicate with you? If you have a familiar, it might occasionally speak with your patron’s voice. Some warlocks find messages from their patrons etched on trees, mingled among tea leaves, or adrift in the clouds—messages that only the warlock can see. Other warlocks converse with their patrons in dreams or waking visions, or deal only with intermediaries.

Patron's Attitude

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

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

Special Terms of the Pact

A pact can range from a loose agreement to a formal contract with lengthly, detailed clauses and lists of requirements. The terms of the pact—what a warlock must do to receive a patron’s favor—are always dictated by the patron. On occasion, those terms include a special proviso that might seem odd or whimsical, but warlocks take these dictates as seriously as they do the other requirements of their pacts.

Does your character have a pact that requires you to change your behavior in an unusual or seemingly frivolous way? Even if your patron hasn’t imposed such a duty on you already, that’s not to say it couldn’t still happen.

Binding Mark

Some patrons make a habit of, and often enjoy, marking the warlocks under their sway in some fashion. A binding mark makes it clear—to those who know about such things—that the individual in question is bound to the patron’s service. A warlock might take advantage of such a mark, claiming it as proof of one’s pact, or might want to keep it under wraps (if possible) to avoid the difficulties it might bring.

If your warlock’s pact comes with a binding mark, how you feel about displaying it probably depends on the nature of your relationship with the one who gave it to you. Is the mark a source of pride or something you are secretly ashamed of?

Quick Build

You can make a warlock quickly by following these suggestions. First, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Dexterity or Constitution. Second, choose the charlatan background. Third, choose the eldritch blast, chill touch, and prestidigitation cantrips, along with the 1st-level spells hellish rebuke and ray of sickness.

Class Features

As an warlock, you gain the following class features.

Otherworldly Patron

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

Patron Spells

Your connection to your patron has given you the ability to cast spells associated with your patron. At 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th level you gain access to Patron Spells. Once you gain access to Patron spells, you always know them, and they don’t count against the number of Spells known. If you gain access to a spell that doesn’t appear on the warlock spell list, the spell is nonetheless a warlock spell for you.

Pact Magic

Your arcane research and the magic bestowed on you by your patron have given you facility with spells. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the warlock spell list.

Pact of the Brand

Your patron marks your body with a symbol or feature indicative of their influence, called a Pact Mark, used to channel yours and your patron's power through your body. Your mark is a symbol, like a tattoo or a blemish, or even a physical feature, such as a unique eye, a wound, or a warped limb, and cannot be removed unless the body part it is on is also removed. Your mark, and by extension your body, counts as a spell focus for spells you can cast, you take half damage from spells and magical effects. Also you can remove the Verbal and Somatic components of spells you cast a number of times equal to your Intelligence or Charisma modifier (minimum of once).

If you lose your mark, you can spend a 1-hour ritual to create a new brand in a new location of your body. This ritual can be performed during a short or long rest, and it destroys the previous mark.

Pact of the Chain

You learn the find familiar spell and can cast it without spending a spell slot. The spell doesn’t count against your number of spells known.

When you cast the spell, you can choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms: imp, pseudodragon, quasit, or sprite. And your familiar gains a number of extra hit points equal to twice your warlock level.

Additionally, in combat you control your familiar and they take their turn after yours and your familiar can make attacks of its own and can cast one of your cantrips as a bonus action. When you're familiar makes an attack they can add your proficiency bonus to the damage roll.

Pact of the Cloak

You can use your bonus action to conjure a pact cloak around yourself. The cloak has six different forms, with each form corresponding to one of the six saving throws, and you can choose which form it takes each time you conjure it.

As long as you are wearing the cloak and not wearing heavy armor, your walking speed is increased by 15 feet. Also, when you or another creature within 30 feet of you that you designate as an ally, fails the save associated with your cloak’s current form, you can choose to add your proficiency bonus to that save even if you or the designated creature is already proficient in that saving throw.

Also, while you wear your cloak, you add your Charisma or Intelligence modifier to Dexterity checks and add your Dexterity modifier to spell attack rolls made from hiding, and you can take the hide action as a bonus action.

Pact of the Talisman

Your patron gives you an amulet, a talisman that can aid the wearer when the need is great. When the wearer fails an ability check, attack roll, or tool check, they can add a 1d4 + 1 to the roll, potentially turning the roll into a success. This benefit can be used a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and all expended uses are restored when you finish a short or long rest.

If you lose your Talisman or it's destroyed, you can perform a 1-hour ceremony to teleport your Talisman back to you or to make a new one. This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest. The talisman turns to ash when you die.

Pact of the Tome

Your Patron gives you a grimoire called a Book of Shadows. When you gain this feature, your Book of Shadows acts as a spell focus for spells you cast, and you can choose three Cantrips from any class’s spell list (the three needn’t be from the same list). While the book is on your person, you can cast those Cantrips at will. They don’t count against your number of Cantrips known. If they don’t appear on the Warlock spell list, they are nonetheless Warlock Spells for you.

Also, choose one spell from your spells known, you can cast this chosen spell once per long rest without expending a warlock spell slot as long as your Book of Shadows is on your person. At 5th level, you can choose a second spell to cast once per long rest, or you can choose the same spell to cast it twice per long rest.

If you lose your Book of Shadows or it's destroyed, you can perform a 1-hour ceremony to teleport your Book of Shadows back to you or to make a new one. This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest. The book turns to ash when you die.

Patrons Teachings

Also at 3rd level, the teachings of your patron and the source of their knowledge has become clearer. You can cast detect magic at will without expending a spell slot. And you can select two of the following skills: Arcana, History, Nature, or Religion. You can add your proficiency bonus to the associated skill check even if you already have proficiency in the skill.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Eldritch Strength

At 5th Level, the seed of magical power bestowed upon you by your patron has granted you proper strength befitting of a bearer of your patrons power. You gain a bonus to your damage rolls equal to your Charisma or Intelligence modifier.

Mystic Arcanum

At 11th level, your patron bestows upon you a Magical Secret called an arcanum. Choose one 6th-level spell from the Warlock spell list as this arcanum.

You can cast your arcanum spell once without expending a spell slot. You must finish a Long Rest before you can do so again.

At higher levels, you gain more Warlock Spells of your choice that can be cast in this way: one 7th-level spell at 13th level, one 8th-level spell at 15th level, and one 9th-level spell at 17th level. You regain all uses of your Mystic Arcanum when you finish a Long Rest.

When you reach 20th level, you can cast your 6th-level arcanum spell twice per long rest, instead of once.

If you learn a spell of 6th-level or higher, you can cast that spell in place of an arcanum spell of appropriate level.

Transcendent Presence

At 18th level, your mind, body, and soul have been granted greater fortitude that you can lend to even your allies. You and every creature you deem an ally within a 30-foot radius of you gain the following benefits; you have a bonus to attack rolls equal to half your Charisma or Intelligence modifier (rounded down), you have advantage on all ability checks and saving throws, your memories cannot be altered, your soul cannot be taken, and your name cannot be stolen.

Eldritch Master

At 20th level, the mystical power that you patron imprinted within your soul has finally take proper root, and now you can draw upon it to it's fullest potential. Pick three of your spells known of 5th level or lower that don't have a material component that is consumed, you can now cast these spells at will instead of expending spell slots to cast them. However, when you cast them in this way, they are cast at their base level.

Otherworldly Patron: The Archfey

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

Otherworldly Patron: The Celestial

Your patron is a powerful being of the Upper Planes. You have bound yourself to an ancient empyrean, solar, ki-rin, unicorn, or other entity that resides in the planes of everlasting bliss. Your pact with that being allows you to experience the barest touch of the holy light that illuminates the multiverse.

Being connected to such power can cause changes to your behavior and beliefs. You might find yourself driven to annihilate the undead, to defeat fiends, and to protect the innocent. At times, your heart might also be filled with a longing for the celestial realm of your patron, a desire to wander that paradise for the rest of your days. But you know that your mission is among mortals for now and that your pact binds you to bring light to the dark places of the world.

Otherworldly Patron: The Elder Dragon

Vrassimara, the elder dragon, bowed her head.
"I grant you my power, Thaldir the Golden, you will rule the skies and make the earth shake with my power. You will freeze your enemies and rend their flesh with your claws. You will have the power of a dragon. Use it."

Otherworldly Patron: The Fathomless

You have plunged into a pact with the deeps. An entity of the ocean, the Elemental Plane of Water, or another otherworldly sea now allows you to draw on its thalassic power. Is it merely using you to learn about terrestrial realms, or does it want you to open cosmic floodgates and drown the world?

Perhaps you were born into a generational cult that venerates the Fathomless and its spawn. Or you might have been shipwrecked and on the brink of drowning when your patron's grasp offered you a chance at life. Whatever the reason for your pact, the sea and its unknown depths call to you.

Entities of the deep that might empower a warlock include krakens, ancient water elementals, godlike hallucinations dreamed into being by kuo-toa, merfolk demigods, and sea hag covens.

Otherworldly Patron: The Fiend

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

Otherworldly Patron: The Noble Genie

You have made a pact with one of the rarest kinds of genie, a noble genie. Such entities rule vast fiefs of the Elemental Planes and have great influence over lesser genies and elemental creatures. Noble genies are varied in their motivations, but most are arrogant and wield power that rivals that of lesser deities. They delight in turning the table on mortals, who often bind genies into servitude, and readily enter into pacts that expand their reach.

You choose your patron's kind or determine it randomly, using the Genie Kind table shown below

Otherworldly Patron: The Great Old One

Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known only in legends.

Its motives are incomprehensible to mortals, and its knowledge so immense and ancient that even the greatest libraries pale in comparison to the vast secrets it holds. The Great Old One might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your magic from it.

Entities of this type include Ghaunadar, called That Which Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.

Otherworldly Patron: The Raven Queen

Your 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 sworn 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.

Otherworldly Patron: The Seeker

Your patron is an inscrutable being who travels the Astral Plane in search of knowledge and secrets. In return for your patron’s gifts, you wander the world seeking lore that you can share with the Seeker.

Your patron could be any deity or other powerful entity dedicated to knowledge or forgotten lore. Celestian is an ideal patron for a Greyhawk campaign, and was the inspiration for this concept. In the Forgotten Realms, your patron might be Azuth or Oghma. Aureon makes an excellent patron in Eberron, while in Krynn and the Dragonlance campaign setting, Gilean is a good match for the Seeker’s role.

Otherworldly Patron: The Undead

The Undead is an entity that resides in the dark corners of the multiverse. Your patron could be Acererak, Azalin, Lord Soth, Strahd, or some other ancient undead being. You may seek to gain knowledge from your patron’s countless lifetimes of experience, while it may see you as a piece of a centuries long plan.

Otherworldly Patron: The Undying Light

Your patron is not a specific entity, but the energy that radiates from the Positive Plane. Your pact allows you to experience the barest touch of the raw stuff of life that powers the multiverse. Anything more. and you would be instantly incinerated by its energy.

Contact with the Positive Plane causes subtle changes to your behavior beliefs. You are driven to bring light to dark places, to annihilate undead creatures, and to protect all things. At the same time, you crave the light and find total darkness a suffocating experience akin to drowning.

As an optional way to add more flavor to your character, you can pick from or roll on the following table of quirks associated with warlocks of the Undying Light.

Eldritch Invocations

If an eldritch invocation has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn the invocation at the same time that you meet its prerequisites.

Eldritch Beacon

Prerequisite: Pact of the Talisman
You are aware of the nature of any creature carrying your talisman as if it were under the effect of the detect evil and good spell. In addition, you know if your talisman is being carried by a creature you have met before, and if you are strongly familiar with them (such as a companion or ally) you know their exact identity.

Eldritch Mind

You have advantage on Constitution saving throws that you make to maintain your concentration on a spell.

Eldritch Smite

Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade
Once per turn, when you successfully hit a creature with your pact weapon, you can expend a warlock spell slot to deal an extra 1d8 force damage to the target, plus another 1d8 per level of the spell slot, knocking the target prone if it is Huge or smaller.

Eldritch Spear

Cantrips you cast have their range increased by 300 feet.

Extraplanar Awareness

Prerequisite: Pact of the Brand
When you roll for Initiative, you can choose for the result of the d20 roll to become equal to 8 + your Charisma or Intelligence modifier.

Everlasting Shroud

Prerequisite: Pact of the Cloak
While your pact cloak is dawned, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modfier + your Charisma or Intelligence modifier.

Eyes of the Rune Keeper

You can read all writing. If you read writing that you do not know, you can speak and write in that language for 1 hour.

Fiendish Vigor

You can cast false life on yourself at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Fervor of the Dead

You can cast inflict wounds once without expending a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Gaze into Mortal Hearts

Prerequisite: Pact of the Brand or Tome
You can spend an action to learn the nature of a creature you can see within 120 feet with an Intelligence of 6 or higher. You learn its alignment and its most prevalent moral or behavioral tendency (violent, altruistic, aloof, etc.).

For 1 minute after doing this, if the d20 roll for a Wisdom (Insight) check against the creature is an 11 or lower, you treat the roll as a 12 instead. After the minute ends, the target is immune to this ability for 24 hours.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma or Intelligence modifier, and regain all uses when you complete a short rest.

Gaze of Two Minds

You can use your action to touch a willing humanoid and perceive through its senses until the end of your next turn. As long as the creature is on the same plane of existence as you, you can use your action on subsequent turns to maintain this connection, extending the duration until the end of your next turn. While perceiving through the other creature’s senses, you benefit from any special senses possessed by that creature, and you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings.

Gift of the Ever-Living Ones

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain
Whenever you regain hit points while your familiar is within 100 feet of you, treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value for you.

Grasp of Hadar

Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a cantrip that deals damage, you can move that creature in a straight line 10 feet closer to yourself.

Hypnotic Cloak

Prerequisite: Pact of the Cloak
Once per short rest, You can dance for 1 minute, using a Performance skill check to captivate creatures within 30 ft. of you that can see you. The creatures must make a WIS saving throw against your Performance check. Each creature that fails their save becomes charmed by you for up to 1 hour after the performance. Creatures that succeed at their saving throw are unaffected.

Improved Pact Weapon

Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade
The weapons you can conjure have been expanded to firearms, hand crossbows, heavy crossbows, light crossbows, longbows, or shortbows. Also, your pact weapon gains a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls at 5th level, and again at 11th level this bonus increases to +2, and at 17th level it increases to +3. You ignore this bonus if your transformed weapons bonus is higher than the invocations bonus.

Investment of the Chain Master

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain
When you cast Find Familiar, you infuse the summoned familiar with a measure of your eldritch power, granting the creature the following benefits:

• The familiar gains either a flying speed or a swimming speed (your choice) of 40 feet.
• As a bonus action, you can command the familiar to take the Attack action.
• The familiar’s weapon attacks are considered magical for the purpose of overcoming immunity and resistance to nonmagical attacks.
• If the familiar forces a creature to make a saving throw, it uses your spell save DC.
• When the familiar takes damage, you can use your reaction to grant it resistance against that damage.

Lance of Lethargy

Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with a cantrip that deals damage, you can reduce that creature’s speed by 10 feet until the end of your next turn.

Mask of Many Faces

You can cast disguise self at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Might of Limbo

Whenever you cast a warlock spell that deals damage, you can choose for the damage type to be acid, cold, fire, lightning, poison or thunder (your choice).

Misty Visions

You can cast silent image at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Otherworldly Agility

You are permanently under the effects of the jump and longstrider spells.

Otherworldly Blade

Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade
Once per turn, when a weapon attack made with your pact weapon misses, you can choose to deal half the weapon's damage to the target of the attack.

Planar Resilience

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain
Creatures summoned using warlock spell slots have their hit point maximum increased by an amount equal to your warlock level + your Charisma or Intelligence modifier.

Cross Planar Ally

You can cast find familiar at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Reality Tear

Prerequisites: Pact of the Talisman
You may teleport your talisman to a location you can see within 120 feet of you as an action.

If you teleport your talisman into the inventory of an unwilling creature, it must succeed a Wisdom (Perception) check contested by your Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check to notice, as if you were pick pocketing the creature. On a success the creature will avoid the teleportation effect and your talisman will drop to the ground in its space.

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

Rebuke of the Talisman

Prerequisite: Pact of the Talisman
When the wearer of your talisman is hit by an attacker you can see within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to deal psychic damage to the attacker equal to your Charisma modifier + Proficiency Bonus and push it up to 10 feet away from the talisman's wearer.

Repelling Blast

When you hit a creature with a cantrip that deals damage, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.

Sanguine Blast

When you hit a creature with a cantrip that deals damage, you can choose to roll a d6 and add it to your damage roll. If you choose to roll, you lose a number of hit points equal to the number rolled. If the target is rendered below half health, unconscious, or outright killed by this invocation, you recover hit points equal to twice the damage dealt.

Shadow Aegis

Prerequisite: Pact of the Talisman
You may cast the shield spell on the creature holding your talisman without expending a spell slot if they are within your line of sight using your reaction. You can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest.

Supernatural Cunning

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain
Your familiar can take the Disengage or Hide actions as a bonus action on each of its turns.

Tales of the Crimson Tome

Prerequisite: Pact of the Tome
When you kill a creature, your Book of Shadows gains a blood stained page, for each blood stained page you have you gain a +1 bonus to damage rolls for warlock cantrips that you cast. You can have a number of these blood stained pages equal to half your warlock level.

Thief of Five Fates

You can cast Bane once without expending a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Twinned Blades

Prerequisite: Pact of the Blade
You gain access to a second pact weapon, and you can summon both whenever you would summon one of them. When you engage in two-weapon fighting using both your pact weapons, you can add your ability modifier to the attack and damage rolls of the second attack.

Voice of the Chain Master

Prerequisite: Pact of the Chain
You can communicate telepathically with your familiar and perceive through your familiar’s senses as long as you are on the same plane of existence. Additionally, you can also speak through your familiar in your own voice, even if your familiar is normally incapable of speech.

Additionally, since you can speak through your familiar, you can always cast spells that require verbal components as long as your familiar is within 60 feet, conscious, and is not under the effects of the silence spell.

Whispering Temptations

Prerequisites: Pact of the Talisman
Any creature carrying your talisman has disadvantage on saving throws against all mind affecting spells cast by you, and you may also cast the suggestion spell on this creature through your talisman without expending a warlock spell slot as long as it is on the same plane of existence. You can't cast this spell with this feature again until you finish a long rest.

The creature must also make a Wisdom saving throw against your warlock spell save DC in order to recognise your talisman as the source of any spells cast through it that do not directly cause any damage, on a failure it will ignore any obvious clues that your talisman was the source of the spell. Creatures that are immune to being charmed ignore this effect.

Wayfarers Walk

When you deal damage with a spell, you grant every nonhostile creature except yourself a number of temporary hit points equal to your warlock level. You can do this twice per short or long rest.

Second Tier Invocations

Far Scribe

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Tome
A new page appears in your Book of Shadows. With your permission, a creature can use its action to write its name on that page, which can contain a number of names equal to your Charisma or Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1).

You can cast the sending spell, targeting a creature whose name is on the page, without using a spell slot and without using material components. To do so, you must write the message on the page. The target hears the message in their mind, and if the target replies, their message appears on the page, rather than in your mind. The writing disappears after 10 minutes.

As an action, you can magically erase a name on the page by touching the name on it.

Flesh Puppet

Prerequisites: 5th level, Pact of the Talisman
You may place your talisman on the remains of a medium or smaller humanoid and cause it to rise again as if under the effect of the animate dead spell cast at 3rd level without expending a warlock spell slot.

If the talisman is separated from the undead creature's person or is used to cast another spell, the effect will end and the creature will immediately drop dead.

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

Gift of the Depths

Prerequisite: 5th level
You can breathe underwater, and you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

You can also cast Water Breathing without expending a spell slot. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

Ghost-Iron Chains

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Chain
Your familiar becomes ghostly in appearance and gains the ability to become incorporeal. Your familiar can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, but if it ends its turn inside an object it is immediately dismissed to its pocket dimension.

Lingering Energies

Prerequisite: 5th level
When you cast a warlock spell, your next attack that hits deals an extra 1d8 force damage + 1d8 per spell level of 5th level or lower.

Additionally, if a creatures movement provokes opportunity attack from you, you can as a reaction, deal the extra force damage to the creature provoking opportunity attack.

Lots of Pockets

Prerequisite: 5th Level, Pact of the Cloak
Your pact cloak now acts like that of a bag of holding without risk of breaking, but can hold twice the size and double the weight. Your cloak still weights nothing regardless of its contents. Retrieving an item from your cloak requires an action.

Mage Bomb

Prerequisite: 5th level
You can grab the magic in the air, and condense it into a ball of raw magic. Once per turn, as an action or bonus action, you can throw this ball as a ranged spell attack, and all creatures in a 10-foot radius of where the ball lands must Charisma saving throw taking 3d10 + your warlock level in force damage on a failed save, and half as much on a successful save.

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

Maddening Hex

Prerequisite: 5th level, Hex spell or a warlock feature that curses
As a bonus action, you cause a psychic disturbance around the target cursed by your hex spell or by a warlock feature of yours, that marks a target in some way. When you do so, you deal psychic damage to the target and each creature of your choice within 5 feet of it. The psychic damage equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of 0 damage).

March of the Restless

Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast animate dead twice without expending a spell slot and regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

Medicinal Sight

Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast detect poison and disease at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Mire the Mind

Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast slow once without expending a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Occult Suffusion

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Brand
You can cast enhance ability on yourself twice without expending a spell slot and regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

Otherworldly Intelligence

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Tome
You open up a means of communication with your patron. You may write down one question in your Book of Shadows and seek answers from your patron, as if casting the commune spell. Your patron will be truthful in whatever answer they give. Once you have used this invocation, you can't use it again until you've finished a long rest.

Protection of the Talisman

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Talisman
When the wearer of your talisman fails a saving throw, they can add a 1d4+1 to the roll, potentially turning the save into a success. This benefit can be used a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and all expended uses are restored when you finish a short or long rest.

Sacrificial Demise

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Chain
As an action, you can cause your familiar to sacrifice itself in an explosion of eldritch power. Choose any damage type that the familiar can inflict with an attack. Creatures within 20 feet of your familiar must make a Dexterity saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. If they fail, they take 1d8 damage per two warlock levels you possess of the chosen damage type, or half as much damage if they succeed. Your familiar is instantly slain by this sacrificial attack but can be summoned again by casting find familiar as normal.

Shroud of Death

Prerequisite: 5th Level, Pact of the Cloak
As a bonus action, you can surround yourself with a magical aura that looks deathly in nature. The aura extends 10 feet from you in every direction. It lasts until you’re incapacitated or you dismiss it as a bonus action.

The aura grants you advantage on Charisma checks. Any other creature that starts its turn in the aura takes necrotic and poison damage equal to your Charisma or Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1 damage each).

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

Sign of Ill Omen

Prerequisite: 5th level
You can cast bestow curse equal to your warlock spell level, twice without expending a spell slot and regain all expended uses when you complete a long rest.

Strength of the Scribe

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Brand or Tome
You can cast your warlock cantrips as a bonus action.

Strength of the Outsider

Prerequisites: 5th level, Pact of the Chain
You can choose for the damage dealt by your familiar's attacks deal 1d10 + your Charisma or Intelligence modifier damage instead of their normal damage. Additionally, your familiar can attack twice, instead of once.

Swift as the Four Horsemen

Prerequisite: 5th level, Pact of the Blade or Cloak
You can take the Dash or Disingage actions as a bonus action. When you take the Dash or Disengage action in this way, opportunity attack are made with disadvantage.

Tomb of Levistus

Prerequisite: 5th level
As a reaction when you take damage, you can entomb yourself in ice, which melts away at the end of your next turn. You gain 10 temporary hit points per warlock level, which take as much of the triggering damage as possible.

Immediately after you take the damage, you gain vulnerability to fire damage, your speed is reduced to 0, and you are incapacitated. These effects, including any remaining temporary hit points, all end when the ice melts.

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

Touch of the Elders

Prerequisite: 5th level
Once per turn, when you make a spell attack as a part of casting a warlock cantrip, you can choose to make an attack with a weapon instead. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and the spell automatically hits.

Third Tier Invocations

Endurance of the Jeweler

Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Talisman
When you make a saving throw that fails, you can spend one use of your pact talisman to reroll gaining advantage on the reroll, potentially turning a failure into a success.

Ghostly Gaze

Prerequisite: 7th level
As an action, you gain the ability to see through solid objects to a range of 30 feet. Within that range, you have darkvision if you don’t already have it. This special sight lasts for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell). During that time, you perceive objects as ghostly, transparent images.

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

Improved Pact Casting

Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Brand or Tome
Your Book of Shadows/Pact Mark gains a +1 bonus to spell attacks and your spell save DC, at 11th level this bonus increases to +2, and at 17th level it increases to +3. You ignore this bonus if your wielding a spell focus with a bonus that's higher than the invocations bonus.

Spell Betrayal

Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Blade or Cloak
When hit or damage by a spell, you have advantage on all attacks against the spellcaster until the start of their next turn. Also, if you have advantage on an attack roll of any kind, you deal an extra 2d12 force damage.

Relentless Hex

Prerequisite: 7th level, Hex spell or a warlock feature that curses
Your curse creates a temporary bond between you and your target. As a bonus action, you can magically teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see within 5 feet of the target cursed by your Hex spell or by a warlock feature of yours, such as Hexblade’s Curse and Sign of Ill Omen. To teleport in this way, you must be able to see the cursed target.

Rift Maker

Prerequisite: 7th level, Pact of the Cloak
As a bonus action, you can conjure a medium sized portal from your cloak within 5 feet of you at any angle, to a location within 60 feet of you, you can close any of your portals with a reaction. You can do this a number of times equal to twice your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Sculptor of Flesh

Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast polymorph once without expending a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Serpent’s Tongue

Prerequisite: 7th level
You gain proficiency in the Deception skill and triple your proficiency bonus for it. Creatures can’t automatically detect your lies if they have such a feature.

Walking Desert

Prerequisite: 7th level
You can cast blight once without expending a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.

Fourth Tier Invocations

Occult Murmurings

Prerequisite: 9th level
You can cast detect thoughts at will. When you cast detect thoughts in this way, you can only read the surface thoughts, and cannot probe deeper into another creature's minds.

Shroud of the Deceiver

Prerequisites: 9th level, Pact of the Cloak or Talisman
You may cast Nystul's magic aura from your cloak or talisman at will, affecting the creature or object carrying it. This will also conceal the talisman's magical aura. This does not consume a warlock spell slot or any magical components.

Spell Thief

Prerequisite: 9th level, Pact of the Tome
You can cast the spell counterspell without expending a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. If you successfully counter the spell, and it is of a level that you can cast, you can cast it once using a warlock spell slot. The countered spell is forgotten upon casting it.

Thieves Hush

Prerequisite: 9th level
You can cast silence at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Veil of the Underworld

Prerequisite: 9th level, Pact of the Cloak
Once per rest, you can use your action to dawn the hood of your cloak to become invisible to all sight and sense for a number of rounds equal to your Proficiency Bonus.

Whispers of the Grave

Prerequisite: 9th level
You can cast speak with dead at will, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Fifth Tier Invocations

Sixth Tier Invocations

Extra Spells

Shift Blade

Conjuration Cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Sorcerer, Warlock

You summon a shard of vile planar energy and plunge it into a nearby foe. You teleport to an unoccupied location in range and make a melee spell attack at a creature within in reach, dealing 1d8 force damage on a hit. After your attack you immediately teleport back to your original location.

The spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).

Healing Elixir

1st-Level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (Alchemist’s supplies)
• Duration: 24 hours
• Classess: Artificer, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You create a healing elixir in a simple vial that appears in your hand. The elixir retains its potency for the duration or until it’s consumed, at which point the vial vanishes.

As an action, a creature can drink the elixir or administer it to another creature. The drinker regains 2d4 + 10 hit points, or they are cured of the following conditions (drinkers choice): Blinded, Charmed, Deafened, Diseased, Poisoned, and Invisible.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the potions healing increases by 1d4 hit points for each slot level above 1st level.

Dazzling Spark

1st-level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Artificer, Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock

You fire a streak of flickering light towards a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 2d8 lightning damage and has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks requiring sight until the end of your next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the lightning damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Blade Yard

2nd-Level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (30-feet-circle)
• Components: S, M (A bladed weapon)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock

You stab your weapon into the ground and cause a burst of magical copies of your weapon to stab up from the ground striking all creatures within the radius. All creatures within the spells range (except you) takes 2d6 piercing damage and 2d6 slashing damage.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the piercing damage or the slashing damage (your choice) increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd.

Cold and Hot

2nd-Level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: S, M (A glass rod with mercury inside it)
• Duration: 1 hour
• Classes: Artificer, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You strike a creature with opposing elements. Make a melee spell attack, on a hit, the creature become vulnerable to cold damage, but becomes immune to fire damage for the spells duration. Alternatively, you can instead make them vulnerable fire damage and immune to cold damage.

If the creature has immunity to cold or fire damage, this spell fails and the spell slot is lost.

Spirit Blade

3rd-Level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 10 minutes
• Classes: Cleric, Sorcerer, Warlock

You conjure a blade which embodies your nature that lasts until the spell ends, unless you dismiss it as a bonus action. It counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient and cannot be disarmed, and uses your spellcasting ability type depends on your alignment; radiant damage for good, force damage for neutral, and necrotic damage for evil. On a hit, the target takes 3d8 of the relevant damage type + your spellcasting ability modifier.

Slashing with this spell cuts through objects and terrain like walls. All nonmagical items or objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried are cut as well.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.

Temporal Redux

3rd-Level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 reaction which you take when you fail an ability check, attack, or saving throw
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Artificer, Sorcerer, Warlock

When you fail to pull something off, you can rewind time to redo your action. When you fail an ability check, attack roll, or saving throw, you can reroll it and must use the new roll. If a saving throw involved taking half damage on a successful save, you instead take no damage on a success and half damage on a fail.

Blast of the Elders

4th-Level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self (100-foot cone)
• Components: V, S, M (An occult talisman worth 100gp)
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Classes: Warlock

You rip forth the interplanar energies of the multiverse and unleash the eldritch energy onto the battle field. Everything in a 100-foot cone must make a Charisma saving throw. A target takes 5d10 force damage and has their movements speed reduced by half until the start of your next turn on a failed save, or half as much damage without a movement speed reduction on a successful one.

Creatures reduced to 0 hit points by this spell becomes frozen in time for 1d100 years. Nonmagical objects and structures are destroyed by this spell.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the force damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 4th.

Trigger

4th-Level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (A vial of the casters blood and a diamond worth 150gp)
• Duration: 1 minute
• Classes: Sorcerer, Warlock

Until the spell ends, your speed is doubled, you cannot provoke opportunity attack, you have advantage on Strength checks, and saving throws, and your jump distances are doubled, and if you're missing any hit points you regain 3d12 hit points at the start of each of your turns until the spell ends or until you reach you hit point maximum.

Astral Projection

5th-Level Necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 hour
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (For each creature you affect with this spell, you must provide one jacinth worth at least 100 gp and one ornately carved bar of silver worth at least 100 gp)
• Duration: Special
• Classes: Cleric, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You project your astral body into the Astral Plane (the spell projects your body to the material plane if you are already on the astral plane). The material body you leave behind is unconscious and in a state of suspended animation; it doesn’t need food or air and doesn’t age, it's immune to psychic damage, and resistant to all other forms of damage.

Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game statistics and possessions. The principal difference is the addition of a silvery cord that extends from between your shoulder blades and trails behind you, fading to invisibility after 1 foot. This cord is your tether to your material body. As long as the tether remains intact, you can find your way home. If the cord is cut—something that can happen only when an effect specifically states that it does—your soul and body are separated, killing your physical body instantly.

Your astral form can freely travel through the Astral Plane and can pass through portals there leading to any other plane. If you enter a new plane or return to the plane you were on when casting this spell, your body and possessions are transported along the silver cord, allowing you to re-enter your body as you enter the new plane. Your astral form is a separate incarnation. Any damage or other effects that apply to it have no effect on your physical body, nor do they persist when you return to it.

The spell ends for you when you use your action to dismiss it. When the spell ends, you return to your physical body, and you awaken.

The spell might also end early for the caster. A successful dispel magic spell used against an astral or physical body ends the spell for that caster. If a caster’s original body or its astral form drops to 0 hit points, the spell ends for the caster. If the spell ends and the silver cord is intact, the cord pulls the caster’s astral form back to its body, ending its state of suspended animation.

If you are returned to your body prematurely, you cannot cast this spell again until after you finish a rest.

Spell Blades Bond

5th-Level Conuration

• Casting Time: 1 hour
• Range: 10 feet
• Components: V, S, M (A weapon that the caster is proficient in, and a gem worth 300 gp, which the spell fuses together)
• Duration: Until dispelled
• Classes: Artificer, Bard, Paladin, Ranger, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

The caster performs a ritual over the course of an hour to bond a single weapon to their soul or person. When this ritual is complete they gain the following benefits after the ritual is over.

• The weapon is considered magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance if it wasn't before.

• The caster gains a +3 bonus to Attack and Damage Rolls made with this weapon.

• The caster can teleport the weapon to their hand as an action or bonus action if it's on the same plane of existence or there's a portal that links it to your current plane.

• The caster always knows the location of this weapon.

• The caster can use their spellcasting ability Modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity for this weapon.

• The caster can use this weapon as an arcane focus, and if the weapon is within 30 feet of the caster they can cast spells through this weapon as if they were there.

• While the weapon is on their person, they also gain a +1 bonus to their AC and saving throws.

• While the caster wields this weapon they can add their spellcasting ability Modifier to any Constitution saving throw they make to maintain their concentration on a spell.

If this spell is dispelled at an equal level to the spell slot used to cast this spell, then the weapon and gem defuses and teleports back to the caster no matter the location and loses all listed benefits.

Mass Astral Projection

8th-Level Necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 Hour
• Range: Self (10-feet radius)
• Components: V, S, M (For each creature you affect with this spell, you must provide one jacinth worth at least 1,000 gp and one ornately carved bar of silver worth at least 100 gp)
• Duration: Special
• Classes: Cleric, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You and up to eight willing creatures within range project your astral bodies into the Astral Plane (the spell fails and the casting is wasted if you are already on that plane). The material body you leave behind is unconscious and in a state of suspended animation; it doesn’t need food or air and doesn’t age, it's immune to psychic damage, and resistant to all other forms of damage.

Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game statistics and possessions. The principal difference is the addition of a silvery cord that extends from between your shoulder blades and trails behind you, fading to invisibility after 1 foot. This cord is your tether to your material body. As long as the tether remains intact, you can find your way home. If the cord is cut—something that can happen only when an effect specifically states that it does—your soul and body are separated, killing your physical body instantly.

Your astral form can freely travel through the Astral Plane and can pass through portals there leading to any other plane. If you enter a new plane or return to the plane you were on when casting this spell, your body and possessions are transported along the silver cord, allowing you to re-enter your body as you enter the new plane. Your astral form is a separate incarnation. Any damage or other effects that apply to it have no effect on your physical body, nor do they persist when you return to it.

The spell ends for you and your companions when you use your action to dismiss it. When the spell ends, the affected creature returns to its physical body, and it awakens.

The spell might also end early for you or one of your companions. A successful dispel magic spell used against an astral or physical body ends the spell for that creature. If a creature’s original body or its astral form drops to 0 hit points, the spell ends for that creature. If the spell ends and the silver cord is intact, the cord pulls the creature’s astral form back to its body, ending its state of suspended animation. If you are returned to your body prematurely, your companions remain in their astral forms and must find their own way back to their bodies, usually by dropping to 0 hit points.