I’m always interested in how people handle warlock Patrons. Do you know the name, personality, and goals of your Patron? (That is, not “Archfey” but “Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness.”) Does your Patron show up to chat and ask/order you to do things?
Share your story! My Fiend warlock made a pact with a coven of night hags, led by Malafustal. For most of the campaign I thought she/they were my Patron, and they kind of were.
BUT. Turns out they were holding the paper for an archdevil, and there was reams of fine print I wasn't aware of.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) April 19, 2019
Turns out "Malagarius the Devil Tree" was my actual for-reals Patron, and in fulfilling the terms of my pact I was bringing about not only the release of the bound archdevil on the Material Plane, but probably absorbing the entire kingdom into the Shadowfell under its rule.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) April 19, 2019
Oh, and the ultimate forfeiture of my soul in the process. So I had to find a loophole.
Leading up to that, though, I mostly had contact with one of the daughter hags of the coven. She had her eyes gouged out in the incident that left me for dead and led to me accepting a pact.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) April 19, 2019
tl;dr, In our game hag servants all get a “hag mark,” mine was a yellow night hag eye, through which my blind patron hag could see. That also created a weird feedback loop between us with emotions and some deeper metaphysical shit that was incredibly cool, and had great consequences. Faustus is now raising the daughter his hag patron shouldn't have been able to bear, slipped the terms of his pact through a peculiarity of the wording of Malagarius' binding, and has the soul of the hag who he killed to save their daughter in a ring of mind shielding.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) April 19, 2019