Warlock Week: Specific Patrons
So you’ve chosen a Warlock subclass. Just who is your patron, though? There are so many entities to chose from in the D&D universe, but I have gathered some of my favorites here. Not sure exactly how many of them are canon to which setting but I tried to stick to the Forgotten Realms.
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Great Old Ones
Aberrant Deities: As found in the Lords of Madness 3.5e supplement.
Ghaunadaur: That Which Lurks; the Elder Eye. Chaotic-evil god of oozes and nameless things in the dark.
The Great Mother: Deity of the beholders that seeks to remake the world in her image by filling the universe with her progeny. She is either insane or possesses limitless intelligence. It is difficult for mortals to decide which.
Ilsensine: Illithid deity with the form of a giant green brain with ganglia spanning the planes and gathering infinite knowledge. It’s divine mission is the enslavement of all creatures.
Mak Thuum Ngatha: The Nine-Tongued Worm. Deity of wormlike aberrations. Obsessed with the Material Plane for unknown reasons. Mak Thuum Ngatha embodies the opening of infinite knowledge, the destruction of barriers, and the spanning of space, time, and the planes.
The Patient One: Deity of aboleths, chuuls, cloakers, and avolakias. It whispers secrets in the darkness and devours the flesh its worshipers offer it.
Tharizdun: A deity of entropy, darkness, decay, and evil that seeks the unraveling of the universe. He was imprisoned long ago by the collective power of all the human deities. He is worshiped by creatures that believe there will be a place for them when he remakes the universe (IF he remakes it after destroying it).
Stars: Cosmic entities corrupted by the Far Realm as revealed in the Revelations of Melech (and Dragon Magazine). Some invocations in the Warlock Unearthed Arcana are named after these.
Acamar: A corpse star whose motions and size send objects spiraling toward their doom.
Calphon: A Purple star that is often a guiding star on the horizon that sometimes betrays those who rely upon it
Delban: An ice-white star visible during winter.
Gibbeth: A green star that causes madness.
Hadar: the extinguished cinder of a star lurking in a nebula of Ihbar.
Ihbar: A dark nebula expanding and eating the light of neighboring stars.
Khirad: A blue star whose radiance reveals secrets and gruesome insights.
Nihal: A red star that writhes around its portion in the heavens at great speeds.
Ulban: A blue-white light disrupts cognition and numbs your perception to danger.
Zhudun: A corpse star that once shined its baleful light over Cendriane in the Feywild.
Slaadi Lords: The Lords of the Slaad and purveyors of Limbo.
Chourst: Lord of Randomness. A white slaad that cares for nothing other than indulging whatever random whims come into his head.
Rennbuu: Lord of Colors. His skin constantly changes color and he has a grizzled mane of white hair. He is flamboyant and wears colorful costumes. He is at times a passionate artist and at other times a capricious prankster. He has the ability to change colors of anything.
Ssendam: Lord of Madness. The most powerful slaad. A giant golden amoeba with a humanoid brain nucleus. She constantly contacts mortals to drive them insane.
Ygorl: Lord of Entropy. Lord of Limbo. A charred slaad skeleton riding a chaotic-neutral brass dragon and wielding a scythe. He demands for slaads to invade other realms and incubate as many slaad spawn in creatures as possible to spread chaos.
image source: Out of the Abyss D&D 5e module
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