Ena Lucoria

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🦸‍♀️5e - Undead Patron🦸‍♀️

You’ve made a pact with a creature that defies the cycle of life and death: a powerful lich, a vampire, or another entity of undeath. Having once been mortal, these ancient patrons know firsthand the paths of ambition and the routes past the doors of death. They eagerly share this profane knowledge and other secrets with those who work their will among the living.

Level 3: Undead Endurance (Flavor)

You don’t gain ☠️Exhaustion levels from dehydration, malnutrition, or suffocation. In addition, you don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Level 3: Undead Spells

The magic of your patron ensures you always have certain spells ready; when you reach a Warlock level specified in the Undead Spells table, you thereafter always have the listed spells prepared.

Undead Spells Table

3rd level Warlock: ☄️Bane, ☄️Blindness-Deafness, ☄️Phantasmal Force, ☄️Ray of Sickness

5th level Warlock: ☄️Speak with Dead, ☄️Summon Undead

7th level Warlock: ☄️Greater Invisibility, ☄️Phantasmal Killer

9th level Warlock: ☄️Antilife Shell, ☄️Cloudkill

Level 3: Form of Dread

As a Bonus Action, you transform into an avatar of your patron’s dreadful power, gaining the benefits below for 1 minute, until you have the ☠️Incapacitated condition, or until you end the form (no Action required).

Facsimile of Life: You gain 💖Temporary Hit Points equal to 1d10 + your Warlock level.

Fearless Form: You have Immunity to the ☠️Frightened condition. If you are ☠️Frightened when you transform, the condition immediately ends for you.

Frightful Avatar: Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an 🎲Attack Roll, you can force it to make a WIS Save against your ☄️Spell Save DC. Failure: The target has the ☠️Frightened condition until the end of your next turn.

Number of Uses: You can transform a number of times equal to your Spellcasting Ability modifier, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Level 7: Grave Touched

Your patron’s powers have a profound effect on your body and magic, granting you the following benefits:

Arcane Necrosis: Necrotic damage from your 🎲Attacks, Warlock spells, and Warlock features ignores Resistance to Necrotic damage. Once per turn when you cast a spell that deals damage, you can change that spell’s damage type to Necrotic.

Dreaded Necrosis: Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an 🎲Attack Roll and deal Necrotic damage while using your Form of Dread, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the Necrotic damage the target takes.

Level 11: Necrotic Husk

Your connection to undeath saturates your body. You gain the following benefits:

Necrotic Resilience: You have Resistance to Necrotic damage. While using your Form of Dread, you have Immunity to Necrotic damage.

Unholy Resuscitation: If you drop to 0 💖Hit Points and don’t die outright, you can cause your body to erupt with deathly energy. Each creature of your choice in a 30-foot Emanation originating from you makes a CON Save against your ☄️Spell Save DC. Failure: The creature takes Necrotic damage equal to 2d10 + your Spellcasting Ability modifier. Success: The creature takes half the damage only.

Your 💖Hit Points then change to 2 x your Warlock level, and you gain 1 ☠️Exhaustion level.

Number of Uses: Once you’ve used this benefit, you can’t use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

Level 15: Superior Dread

Your Form of Dread improves, granting you the following benefits while you are using it:

Dread Resistance: You have Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage.

Ghostly Flight: You have a 🏃‍♀️Fly Speed equal to your 🏃‍♀️Speed and can hover. You can move through creatures and objects as if they were 🏔️Difficult Terrain, but you take 1d10 Force damage if you end your turn inside a creature or an object.

Profane Casting: Whenever you cast a Warlock spell from the ☄️Conjuration or ☄️Necromancy school, you cast it without any ☄️Verbal, ☄️Somatic, or ☄️Material components, except ☄️Material components that are costly or consumed.

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Source

Source/Inspiration

Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

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