Warlock Patron: The Cabal

Expanded Spell List

The cabal 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.

A Life of Secrecy

At 1st level, as part of your pact you swore an oath to uphold your patron's secretive nature. Only you and the DM know the true origin of your warlock powers.

You gain proficiency in the Deception skill, if you don't already have it. When you make a Charisma (Deception) check to lie about your identity (such as details relating to your background or patron), you add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

Bound to the Shadows

Also at 1st level, you find sanctuary in the shadows, using them to infiltrate before slinking back into obscurity. You can take the Hide action as a bonus action on each of your turns and you only need to be lightly obscured from a creature to hide from it, such as if obscured by dim light.

If you are hidden from a creature when you cast a spell that affects it, your location is not revealed to it unless you hit it with an attack.

Conspiracy

At 6th level, you can utter a bewitching string of words in response to a threat. A nearby creature hears the words in its mind, causing a lapse of misdirection as it finds itself standing where you once were.

As a reaction when you are forced to make a saving throw or become the target of an attack, you select a creature you can see within 20 feet of you, other than the source of the triggering effect. The creature must make a Charisma saving throw against your spell save DC. If it fails, you both instantaneously teleport, swapping places with one another before any effects occur. The creature you swapped with then suffers the triggering effect as if it had been originally standing at its new location. If the effect requires a target, the creature becomes its new target. If it can't be targeted, the attack or effect is wasted on it.

You must choose to use this feature before making your saving throw or learning whether or not the attack hit. You cannot swap with a creature in a response to a save made to end an existing effect.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Existential Emptiness

At 10th level you are protected by an otherworldly veil that masks your magical footprint. Divination magic can't track your location and your mind can't be read unless you wish for it to be: any attempt to do so yields unintelligible information. Magic that would reveal whether or not you are lying comes up inconclusive. Furthermore, you can cast your warlock spells without using verbal or somatic components.

Eye of Power

At 14th level, using your bonus action you open your mind to your cabal's secrets, causing a mystical eye to appear on your head. You determine its appearance and whether it's physical or ethereal, but its effects do not change.

The eye remains for one minute or until you dismiss it as an action. It gives you an uncanny sense of your surroundings, appearing in the form of mental visions. Until the effect ends, you have truesight to a range of 120 feet, can't be blinded, and know the location of any creature in the same range— even those you can't see.

As an action, you can end the effect to overload the mind of a creature you detect in range. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, it takes 6d10 psychic damage and is stunned until the end of your next turn. On success, it takes half as much damage and is not stunned.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Bonus Invocations

These invocations can be taken by any warlock.

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