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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TorgoTheWhite" data-source="post: 9751306" data-attributes="member: 7051716">Without going to long, being a old-school guy who was like "what the hells this warlock stuff?" - coming back to the DMing game. I LOATHED the idea of heavily featuring one, but it is something the player wanted and after reading the class more I interpreted this as nothing I could blame the player for (obviously by my earlier opinions<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )Anyway, I went about it. The Patron in mine is 'The Undead' - pretty nebulous and also personalized. He is not the primary plot point, but he is a taboo historical figure who started as a healer/cleric of Pelor and eventually had "gone native" when his mission trip of healing turned into the 11th crusade. Basically the start of "War Domain" Clerics, he also led a close knit group barbarian Zealots on that ruinous path. He left a trail of cursed weapons behind (skilled craftsmen). Basically the Church of Pelor had a poor perception of this and cut off all support and obliterated his name from most record books... but the barbarians of the East and his cult remains. The primary mythos has this disease "Gift of Orcus" which more or less forced him to this ritual of desperation to become a powerful undead.The Pact is a between his mummy/lich and the PC who was this charlatan/archaelogist. The lich can't leave his tomb without the PC bringing back a Golden Fleece plot device and the PC had contracted the same disease, which the patron put into dormancy by sharing a soul fragment with the PC, so he wouldn't die (campaign doesn't allow him to be an undead pet). So pact under duress for both parties. To uphold the pact (punishment) is fluff, but important. The PC cannot cross a sacred river home without losing his connection to the patron - which will cause the disease to ravage him at an expedited rate.Alot of this is relayed direct to the player with hilarious voicemod moments.Alot of my PC backstories have been shared via a vision-inducing hookah 'of remembrance'. A home-run plot sharing device that I am going to use from here on out. Though other stuff comes up organically - the wizard has figured some of this out from an unburnt book</blockquote>

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