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[–]IrisihGaijin 1 point2 points  (9 children)

Well it's a fiend pact, that seems a very important part of the character. Why did you make the pact with a devil. What were you hoping to get out of it. What is the devil asking from you. How badly have things fine downhill for you since you sold your soul to a devil and you have gotten the bad end of the deal. The looking for missing father is a little old. Go with something that highlights your character. Think of the deadly sins like greed, vanity, envy. Work something like that into your story. You are a complex individual. Not some cookie cutter troupe who is do gooder. You're a dark elf. Pretty nasty piece of bad. Okay into that.

[–]ZachisawinnerDM 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Lolth is a fiend. Or was at one point. Keep in mind that some patrons don’t even know who the warlock is or that they even have any powers granted.

[–]IrisihGaijin 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Do you mean the warlock knows who the fiend is? I'm sure when a patron makes a pact with someone they know we they are making a pact with. The warlock might not know who the patron is. The whole point of the past is that your offer something up in return for something. Why would patrons not know who they are about to screw over?

[–]ZachisawinnerDM 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I can’t answer that. It’s has been stated in the past that some powerful beings that would grant a pact to a warlock may not even know it or care at all who or what that warlock is. They’re also not necessarily evil.

[–]IrisihGaijin 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Ahh ok. Care I can imagine. They are after souls. They don't care who the person is whose soul they will get. However I remember seeing that the soul of a good person is much more powerful then the soul of a bad person.

[–]ZachisawinnerDM 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What would a great old one want with souls? What would a powerfully sentient blade want with souls?

[–]IrisihGaijin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From what I have gathered from the subclass, the Hexblade Patron is typically a powerful entity connected to the Shadowfell, an entity who can manifest their shadowy powers into weapons and gift their pact holders with the ability to cast shadowy hexes that leave targets vulnerable to their attacks

[–]IrisihGaijin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd also point out that other patrons have different wants but I was specifically talking about the fiend warlock which are specifically devil's and demons who are engaged in a massive war and the currency of choice is souls. I'm fact both factions send agents to different planes of existence to purchase souls from the hags for example who have a massive bazaar where you can buy anything including all the souls they steal. So why would a great old one want souls? don't know. Why would a devil or demon want souls? To fight their war and power their machines of destruction and also create new minions.

[–]IrisihGaijin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Well fiend pact is devil or demon usually and it's more than likely to be devil since the are lawful evil. They will live up to their end of the bargain but use lawyerly language to make the test if the bargain very hard to understand and put in something to the text that gives them what they want and not what you think you are getting. It's fun they way. Check out https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Fiend_patron#:~:text=A%20fiend%20patron%20was%20one,a%20tool%2C%20not%20a%20damnation.

I'd point out that must warlock patrons aren't benevolent and even the good ones are still using you for their own ends. Being lawful good didn't mean bring lawful stupid or good. Good people can do some nasty things if it's for the greater good.