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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DeanP" data-source="post: 6839984" data-attributes="member: 6681963">I know very little about the Eberron setting but I've a few ideas how to handle this in general terms. First, employ the ole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The warlock/paladin's patron shares a common foe of the warlock/paladin, and the patron needs servants to deal with it. Maybe a lich who broke a deal with the patron or has something the patron wanted, and this lich is responsible for causing the calamity that caused the paladin to swear his oath.  Make the Lich suitably powerful enough that it cannot be dealt with until the warlock/paladin is 16+ levels. You can build towards the inevitable conflict while running whatever other story arcs you have planned. It doesn't have to be a lich, but something that can't be easily dispatched will suffice.Assuming you intend to run the characters through 20 levels, you might want to consider a "capstone" event for the Warlock/Paladin.  The nature of the pact is its a contract, and both sides have to honor it; the patron provides the magical powers, the signatory provides service. Should the Warlock/Paladin break that deal, perhaps it triggers the final confrontation between the patron and the character.</blockquote>