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<blockquote data-quote="Alexemplar" data-source="post: 7092689" data-attributes="member: 6874182">Again, speaking from how I manage to retroactively justify and portray things in my own campaign...&nbsp; A Cleric gets their power directly from the deity/faith structure by legitimately proving to the deity or the faith that they're somehow worthy of it. The Cleric is a sanctioned wielder of power from a higher being, and as such gets a massive suite of spells and can openly call upon their patron deity/power of their faith to intervene.&nbsp; Warlocks, by contrast, are thieves who steal their power in one way or another. Usually by finding an artifact of power, happening upon a tome related to it, or by capturing a lesser entity and coercing it into sharing that power with them. Because Warlocks are attaining the power through unofficial means, they get a narrower range of spells and can't call upon their patrons.&nbsp; To bring the whole thing home: one can be a Cleric of Corellon - or one could happen upon an artifact gifted by Corellon/steal pages from a book written by his high hierophant/summon and then bind one of the sprites that lives in Corellon's domain and use that knowledge/connection to Corellon to steal some of Corellon's power and become a Warlock of the Archfey.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexemplar, post: 7092689, member: 6874182"] Again, speaking from how I manage to retroactively justify and portray things in my own campaign... A Cleric gets their power directly from the deity/faith structure by legitimately proving to the deity or the faith that they're somehow worthy of it. The Cleric is a sanctioned wielder of power from a higher being, and as such gets a massive suite of spells and can openly call upon their patron deity/power of their faith to intervene. Warlocks, by contrast, are thieves who steal their power in one way or another. Usually by finding an artifact of power, happening upon a tome related to it, or by capturing a lesser entity and coercing it into sharing that power with them. Because Warlocks are attaining the power through unofficial means, they get a narrower range of spells and can't call upon their patrons. To bring the whole thing home: one can be a Cleric of Corellon - or one could happen upon an artifact gifted by Corellon/steal pages from a book written by his high hierophant/summon and then bind one of the sprites that lives in Corellon's domain and use that knowledge/connection to Corellon to steal some of Corellon's power and become a Warlock of the Archfey. [/QUOTE]

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