Warlock - The Many

Your patron is a powerful entity composed of a multitude of heads. These heads provide unique strengths, such as the regenerative properties of a mighty hydra, or the bewitching gaze of a medusa. Your patron may consider you one of its estranged or forgotten heads, allowing you to do as you please, or compel you to work toward a shared goal as one of its own. Those that make a pact with a patron such as this may find beauty in patterns or matching sets, or become plagued with internal bickering and indecisiveness. Regardless, one thing is for certain: two heads are always better than one.   Entities of this type include the Butcher Dray, Three- Headed Ettin; Grihoo, the Superhydra; Lady Feluciana, Legendary Medusa Sorceress; the Thousand Voices, Supreme Soul Vortex; Vaanor, Primeval Cerberus; and other extremely powerful or godlike multi-headed or -conscioused beings, swarms, or hiveminds.  

Eldritch Heads

  At 1st level, you gain a number of eldritch heads equal to your proficiency bonus. Only you and creatures with truesight can see these heads, which sprout from your shoulders as representations of your patron. You can choose to ignore the heads and cause them to vanish from your vision.   These eldritch heads provide you with motes of power from your patron that can be expended to grant you the following benefits:  
  • Once per turn, you can expend one head when you hit a creature with an attack to cause that creature to take extra psychic damage equal to 1 + your proficiency bonus.
  • When you make a Charisma (Intimidation) check, you can expend one head to gain advantage on the roll. When you do, your eldritch heads become briefly visible to everyone.
  • When you fail a death saving throw, you can expend one head to succeed instead.
  • When a head is expended, its appearance becomes wispy and gaseous, but its glowing eyes remain. You regain all expended heads when you finish a long rest.   In addition, you can use a bonus action to beseech your patron to restore two of your expended heads. Once you use this ability, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.  

    Guarded

      Also at 1st level, while you have at least one eldritch head remaining, you can’t be surprised, and if a creature would gain advantage on an attack roll against you due to having its ally within 5 feet of you, it makes the attack roll without advantage.  

    Improved Eldritch Heads

      At 6th level, you’ve devised more ways to use your eldritch heads. You gain the following benefits:  
  • You can use a bonus action to expend one eldritch head, reabsorbing it to gain a number of temporary hit points equal to 2d6 + your Charisma modifier.
  • Once per turn, you can expend one head to take a reaction even if you’ve already used your reaction. You can’t use this benefit on the same turn that you take your normal reaction.
  • When you fail a saving throw against being charmed, frightened, or put to sleep by magic, you can expend one head to reroll the saving throw. If you do so, you must use the new roll.
  • Groupthink

      Starting at 10th level, your eldritch heads are always there to support your mortal mind and body. You gain a bonus to Intelligence checks, Wisdom (Perception) checks, and Intelligence saving throws equal to half your proficiency bonus.  

    Eldritch Frenzy

      Starting at 14th level, you can use an action to revive your expended eldritch heads in a frenzied burst, during which time they become visible to everyone. When you do, you regain all expended heads, which releases a thunderous roar audible out to 300 feet as they tear into existence. Choose a number of creatures within 60 feet of you up to the number of heads you regain in this way. Each target must make an Intelligence saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed save, a target takes 4d8 psychic damage and is incapacitated until the end of your next turn as its mind is flooded with otherworldly energy. On a successful save, a target takes half as much psychic damage and isn’t incapacitated.   Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

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