Your patron is a Psychopomp: One of the many spiritual beings devoted to ferrying souls from place to place, ensuring that they arrive at their proper resting place. However, a psychopomp cannot cause death: they are vultures, arriving at the moment of death to take the soul away and bring it to their domain of choice. They require someone else to do the killing.
That's where you come in.
Potential common Psychopomps to make a pact with may include Charon, ferryman of The Styx, Hermes, god of travel and deliverer of souls, or The Grim Reaper, embodiment of death and harvester of the dead.
Subclass Features
As a Warlock of the Psychopomp, you gain the following features.
1 Demands
The Psychopomp has an agenda in the world, and you are a small piece of it. To be worthy of your patron's power, you must honor their demands.
Honour the Dead: Do not speak ill of those who are no longer living, for they cannot hear you and will not defend themselves.
Honour the Deceased: Whenever a being dies by your or an ally's hand, give them a proper burial.
Honour Death: Under no circumstances may you resurrect the dead or assist in any form of resurrection of the dead. Death is final, and those who defy this are the worst kind of heretic.
1 Patron Spells
Add the following pact spells to the warlock spell list.
| Warlock Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1 | Ceremony, Inflict Wounds |
| 3 | Phantasmal Force, Spiritual Weapon |
| 5 |
Bestow Curse, Spirit Shroud |
| 7 | Greater Invisibility, Phantasmal Killer |
| 9 | Antilife Shell, Enervation |
1 Spark-Eating
When a creature dies within 60ft of you, gain temporary hitpoints equal to your Warlock level.
2 Patron Invocations
Add the following invocations to your list of Eldritch Invocation options.
Last Rites
Gain proficiency in the Religion and History skills.
Breach The Styx
Requires: 9th level
You may cast negative energy flood once per long rest without consuming a spell slot or material components.
Seen What Lies Beyond
You may cast protection from good and evil with yourself as the target without consuming a spell slot or material components.
Soul Splinters
Requires: 7th level
You may cast mirror image without consuming a spell slot or material components.
Temporary Exemption
Requires: 5th level
You may cast summon undead once per long rest without consuming a spell slot or material components.
Time Of Death
When touching a corpse, you can tell how long it has been dead for, and what type of damage and attack eventually killed it, down to the type of weapon or spell or effect.
6 Memento Mori
Whenever an enemy creature senses through sight or sound or smell the death of another being by your hands, they must roll a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure:
- They cannot regenerate health through any means for one minute.
- They take 1d12 necrotic damage.
10 Walk Between Raindrops
As an action, you may cause time to freeze for everyone but you and up to one other creature. This effect lasts for 10 rounds, and during this time the frozen world cannot be interacted with in any way, however you may freely move through obstacles less than 1ft thick in an dimension that aren't made of lead. You may use this feature once, and again after a long rest.
