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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Exen Trik" data-source="post: 3849752" data-attributes="member: 34942">I can't imagine they would have those same abilities, but equivalents are sure to come up. Rather than sending someone to hell, you shift them into the feywild where they get swarmed by dozens of brownies and pixies wielding tiny spears. Rather than a 'boon of souls' there exists some other reward for taking out a marked target.Eldritch blast may just be be a universal power though, an essential part of what a warlock does that arises from the power of the pact rather than the patron itself. Pact has those connotations because of the notion of a demonic pact, deals with angels and the like don't really come up in fantasy as much. Words have multiple connotations, and not everyone has the same ones to draw from. When I said a fey pact could be called a binding, I was thinking of being mutually bound together, having exchanged vows and mixed blood in a fey circle under the full moons light. But being bound against one will is a very different concept. Having a pact involving a 'bound devil' works fine for the other kind of fiendish. But really, whatever the manner of deal the warlock has they can all just be 'pacts' but called whatever you like.Indeed. The entire concept of what is considered a pact can easily be turned on its head, even with the same kind of patron. A fiendish pact may indeed be a willful deal of the warlock with a demon, or the pact could be inherited from his father, and it binds a powerful demon that was sealed away by an ancestor in ages past. Should the warlock abandon the power he was granted, the seal on the demon will weaken and break, killing him and freeing the demon onto the mortal world.Or a fallen archangel finds a way to reclaim his former form and power by inflicting his demonic curse unto a mortal. The warlock then uses that power to try to destroy the reascended - but not redeemed - angel, to prevent the fall of both heaven and earth.Lot's of fun to be had with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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