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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7729213" data-attributes="member: 7006">I personally think they were looking at trying to create a patron type from the Shadowfell, the same way they have the 'Archfey' patron for the Feywild.&nbsp; They gave it the identity of the Raven Queen in the UA because she is perhaps the most known quantity of powerful entities that live within the Shadowfell and thus the easiest for people to grasp what they were going for... but I never believed they would make her specificallty the actual patron.&nbsp; One, because she's a god and thus divine and not warlockian... and two, because generic patrons give players a more open interpretation for whom they make a act with.But by making the Raven Queen for UA, it gave them another complete set of subclass levels to create and test new shadow-based warlock features, in addition to the levels of features they were giving us from the Hexblade.&nbsp; Then as need be once they got back the surveys they could mix and match features as necessary depending on what people liked.&nbsp; In the end... it turns out they just chose to combine the two concepts together, where you have the &quot;Shadowfell lord&quot; and the &quot;intelligent magic weapon&quot; as one cohesive unit of a patron.&nbsp; And they tossed aside the 'Raven Queen' flavor text as now unnecessary.Of course that's just my opinion.... I could be wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7729213, member: 7006"] I personally think they were looking at trying to create a patron type from the Shadowfell, the same way they have the 'Archfey' patron for the Feywild. They gave it the identity of the Raven Queen in the UA because she is perhaps the most known quantity of powerful entities that live within the Shadowfell and thus the easiest for people to grasp what they were going for... but I never believed they would make her specificallty the actual patron. One, because she's a god and thus divine and not warlockian... and two, because generic patrons give players a more open interpretation for whom they make a act with. But by making the Raven Queen for UA, it gave them another complete set of subclass levels to create and test new shadow-based warlock features, in addition to the levels of features they were giving us from the Hexblade. Then as need be once they got back the surveys they could mix and match features as necessary depending on what people liked. In the end... it turns out they just chose to combine the two concepts together, where you have the "Shadowfell lord" and the "intelligent magic weapon" as one cohesive unit of a patron. And they tossed aside the 'Raven Queen' flavor text as now unnecessary. Of course that's just my opinion.... I could be wrong. [/QUOTE]

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