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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 5994462" data-attributes="member: 40176">Warlock is a class you can gain at 1st level. How many characters at that level are going to be able to muster up any kind of impressive 'price' that will satisfy some otherworldly being?To me, it makes more sense that the warlock is entering into a long-term pact, gaining power and favour in return for satisfying the patron being's needs at some future point, or on an ongoing basis. It's an active, two-way agreement that will evolve as the character does.One way to handle this is to have contracts be passed along, or even go up for grabs, if one party ceases to be in a position to fulfil them. In the Dresden Files novels, the protagonist has a long-term deal with a powerful fey of the Winter Court. When that fey is temporarily incapacitated, it falls upon her mistress to take up its obligations. Since that mistress is Queen Mab, this makes Dresden's life uncomfortably interesting for awhile - but the deal remains intact.In the case of demonic contracts, I could easily see contracts being traded, bartered and even stolen amongst the abyssal powers. A character could make a deal with one particular demon and work with him for years, attaining great power, then the next time he beseeches his patron he finds quite a different entity on the other end of the call.</blockquote>