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<blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8508780" data-attributes="member: 6685541"><p>I was thinking about Warlock Patrons.</p><p></p><p>In this world, Warlock Patrons are prisoners of powerful warlock cabals. Warlocks draw their power not through bargains but as leeches.</p><p></p><p>For example, the Church of the White Chain has within it a powerful deva bound by magic and deviliron. Warlocks pledged to this church are able to use the deva as their patron. I see this Celestial as an imprisoned scholar, writing endless religious screeds and prophesies consumed as magic scrolls by the church.</p><p></p><p>The Fiend, on the other hand, is an ancient nameless devil who has been cut apart and reduced to raw hellfire. At first a few powerful warlocks used huge tanks of hellfire to empower their magic. But over time, the hellfire has been split and portioned and used to pay off old debts so that now small jars or vials of hellfire are sold on the streets. The hellfire still contains bits of the original Fiend's intelligence and voice, and Warlocks who feed their hellfire with souls can see it grow and become more powerful.</p><p></p><p>There are two Patrons who are not bound:</p><p></p><p>The Great Old One is broadly worshipped by society at large, for it is They who gifted the world with technologies unimaginable. Warlocks of the Great Old One are basically clerics in this setting, leaders of religious ceremonies.</p><p></p><p>The Hexblade is an intelligent organic nanotechnological goo that has freed itself from the bonds of the Great Old One and wishes for nothing less than anarchy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BookTenTiger, post: 8508780, member: 6685541"] I was thinking about Warlock Patrons. In this world, Warlock Patrons are prisoners of powerful warlock cabals. Warlocks draw their power not through bargains but as leeches. For example, the Church of the White Chain has within it a powerful deva bound by magic and deviliron. Warlocks pledged to this church are able to use the deva as their patron. I see this Celestial as an imprisoned scholar, writing endless religious screeds and prophesies consumed as magic scrolls by the church. The Fiend, on the other hand, is an ancient nameless devil who has been cut apart and reduced to raw hellfire. At first a few powerful warlocks used huge tanks of hellfire to empower their magic. But over time, the hellfire has been split and portioned and used to pay off old debts so that now small jars or vials of hellfire are sold on the streets. The hellfire still contains bits of the original Fiend's intelligence and voice, and Warlocks who feed their hellfire with souls can see it grow and become more powerful. There are two Patrons who are not bound: The Great Old One is broadly worshipped by society at large, for it is They who gifted the world with technologies unimaginable. Warlocks of the Great Old One are basically clerics in this setting, leaders of religious ceremonies. The Hexblade is an intelligent organic nanotechnological goo that has freed itself from the bonds of the Great Old One and wishes for nothing less than anarchy. [/QUOTE]
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