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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7350496" data-attributes="member: 6704184">An important thing to remember is that some Warlocks have a relationship similar to that of a cleric, but I’d say that is the minority. Types of warlock relationships: Master and apprentice: more similar to an apprentice wizard and their master than to a cleric, or perhaps even more like a Jedi padawan and their master. Protege: similar to above, but perhaps a bit less direct. You are being given access to secrets that most couldn’t handle, and your patron wants you to succeed in mastering them, perhaps because they like you, perhaps for fell ends. Familial bond: your patron is your ancestor, or a patron of your family, or the elf wizard turned Archfey that adventures with your great grandfather and some unfinished business of theirs has come up, and now you’re an adventurer because you have to be. Something truly weird: You “patron” isn’t an entity, doesn’t know you exist, wants you to die bc you stole one of its magic books/swords/true name of its favorite pet, etc. perhaps you found some lost knowledge and used Eldritch rituals to bind the magic of the Feywild to yourself, making yourself into a Fey creature. You are the magic: you’re a Fey, full stop. Or a Cambion with unprecedented free will and freedom to choose your own path, or a 4e style deva, or whatever. Closer to sorcerer than Cleric, but more about using a class to model being an otherworldly creature, rather than being descended from one. Liege and vassal: Your patron is your ruler, court, or people. Some ritual was undergone to grant you power in line with the nature of your realm, like an Eldritch Paladin. Curse: you didn’t want this power, you didn’t ask for it, but now it’s yours, for good and ill. Cursed sword, cursed by a hag to wander the world until you make up for killing her daughter (or forever, bc it’s a hag, but all Fey curses have a way out), etc. Most of those are compatible with some gods, some more than  others.</blockquote>

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