The life of a natural born hero isn’t in the cards for everyone. Comparatively few are naturally built for combat or glory, as most folks’ talents lie elsewhere and in relative safety. By choosing this patron, you call upon the strength of warriors, archmages, or other heroes whose legacies have stood the test of time: transforming their living memory into a powerful force all its own. Your patron could be one such a person, or even the collective force of a famed platoon. As a warlock of this patron, you have made the choice to trust your heart in the face of adversity to follow the path of a hero.
Expanded Spell List
The Valiant lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.
The Valiant Expanded Spell List
(Spell Level / Spells)
1st / healing word, heroism
2nd / blur, find steed
3rd / beacon of hope, mass healing word
4th / fire shield, guardian of faith
5th / dispel evil and good, legend lore
Bravehearted
At 1st level, your hit point maximum increases by 1 and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class. In addition, you gain proficiency with medium armor and shields.
Eldritch Blade
Also at 1st level, you gain the eldritch blast cantrip if you don’t already know it. This cantrip doesn’t count against the number of warlock cantrips you know. When you use an action to cast eldritch blast, instead of the spell manifesting as a beam of energy, you can choose to create an eldritch weapon in your hand called an eldritch blade. To do so, your hand must either be empty or carrying a rod or wand, from which the magical weapon extends.
When you create the eldritch blade, you can make one melee spell attack with it for each beam the eldritch blast spell would have created when you cast it. If the attack hits, the target is treated as if it were hit by a beam from your eldritch blast. When you cast eldritch blast in this way, you can move between the attacks you make as part of the action. The eldritch blade remains in your hand until the start of your next turn or until you dismiss it early and end the effect (no action required). If a hostile creature’s movement would provoke an opportunity attack from you while you’re holding the eldritch blade, you can use your reaction to make a single melee spell attack against it using the weapon.
The eldritch blade can take whatever form you choose. Warlocks whose patrons are known for a particular weapon may make this spell’s effect resemble that weapon. Regardless of the weapon’s form, it can’t change your reach for the purposes of making your melee spell attacks with it.
When you reach 3rd level in this class, the damage die of your eldritch blade becomes a d12. If you gain the Pact of the Blade feature, you also gain the following benefits:
Your attacks with your pact weapon can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls.
You can replace one of the spell attacks you make with your eldritch blade with a weapon attack from your pact weapon, even if you aren’t holding it. If you can make multiple attacks with your pact weapon as part of the Attack action, you can replace the same number of attacks using your pact weapon in this way. When you do, the pact weapon magically appears and replaces the eldritch blade in your hand for the duration of the attack, provided that your hand is otherwise free. After the attack, the pact weapon returns to its extra-dimensional space and the eldritch blade reappears in your hand.
Vengeful Shield
At 6th level, you can use your reaction when you’re hit by an attack to cast the shield spell, without expending a spell slot and requiring no components. For the duration of the spell, whenever a creature attacks you (including the triggering attacker), that creature takes force damage equal to half your warlock level + your Charisma modifier.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Heroic Resistance
By 10th level, your patron’s protection is permanently extended to you. You are immune to being frightened, and whenever you finish a short or long rest, choose either bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage. You gain resistance to that damage type until you choose a different one with this feature.
Valiant Strike
At 14th level, you’ve become a figure worthy of your patron’s legacy. As an action, you can invoke your patron’s name as you summon the eldritch blade to your hand and swing it down in front of you. The weapon then grows to become a massive, shimmering version of your normal eldritch blade and crashes down in front of you in a line that is 30 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature takes 6d12 force damage and is knocked prone, and it has disadvantage on attack rolls until the end of your next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much force damage and suffers no other effects.
A creature is disintegrated if this damage leaves it with 0 hit points. A disintegrated creature and everything it is wearing and carrying, except magic items, are reduced to a pile of fine gray dust. The creature can be restored to life only by means of a true resurrection or a wish spell.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
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