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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prism" data-source="post: 7685881" data-attributes="member: 9501">There is an interesting slant on this idea in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, where the magician (warlock) in question effectively sells the soul of another to a fey lord (fey pact) and then regrets their naivety after (to some extent). Spoiler....specifically Mr Norrell needs to bring back an important persons wife from the dead but needs to petition a fey lord for the power. The fey lord offers to help but only in return for half of the life of the returned woman. Mr Norrell figures half a life is better than none and she will have many years left before being taken by the fey lord. The pact is made. The problem however is that the fey lord takes half of her life every day, well actually every night. Every night she is whisked off to the fey court to dance and party while every day she returns exhausted, needing sleep and maddened by the experience.I could see an interesting D&D warlock pact where the bad thing happened to someone else and out of guilt the character is committed to eventually right their mistake and challenge their own patron, or make a second more dangerous pact to pay off the first.</blockquote>