Lore
28 Supporting Invocations
Dive into hidden knowledge, discover lost secrets, and create a sanctuary for quiet study with this Warlock Patron and new invocations for any game.
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Warlock Patron
The Librarian
You have made a deal with The Librarian, a powerful being who acts as guardian over tomes and libraries. The The Sanctuario Entre Mundos, or "The Sanctuary," is an interdimensional library under the guardianship of The Librarian, along with the uncountable volumes within. Their reasons for collecting knowledge are unknown, but it is generally seen as a benefit to all.
What is known about The Librarian is that they continue to cultivate a secure and silent shelter for those seeking to learn and research. As part of your pact with The Librarian, you may be called upon to , transport tomes to distant libraries, prevent the loss of knowledge, keep the peace within a library, and even collect late fees and track down stolen tomes.
Expanded Spell List
The Librarian lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a Warlock spell. The following spells are added to your warlock spell list.
The Librarian Expanded Spells
| Spell Level | Spell |
|---|---|
| 1st | dissonant whispers, sanctuary |
| 3rd | calm emotions, pass without trace |
| 5th | sending, tiny hut |
| 7th | private sanctum, resilient sphere |
| 9th | temporal shunt, wall of force |
Book Binder
At 1st level, your patron grants you the power to repair books. As an action, you may repair a tome you are holding back to when it was first created.
The Librarian's Almanac
Also at 1st level, Sanctuario Entre Mundos lends you a copy of the Librarian's Almanac, an ever-shifting tome only visible and tangible to you. The Almanac can be used to take notes, learn hidden knowledge, and grants the following while it is on you:
Cross-reference Reality.
You may ritually cast any divination spell up to those you have spells slots for, casting as if each has the ritual tag and are known Warlock spells. You may use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus.
Verba Volant, Scripta Manent. For any Warlock spell you know with the ritual tag, you may cast as a ritual. If you gain the ritual casting feature, ritually cast time is decreased from 10 minutes to 1 minute.
Demand Silence
At 6th level, keeping a silent and safe for the library-goers requires amazing hearing, you have advantage on Investigation and Perception checks that rely on hearing.
Additionally, you may cast silence once per short rest without expending a spell slot or using concentration.
Eyes of the Mastereader
At 10th level, you can read all writing and you may use an action to learn the title and a brief summary of any tome you can see.
Whisper Zone
Your very presence brings quiet. Also at 10th level, while you are conscious, all creatures within 15 feet of you have resistance to thunder damage and add your Charisma modifier when taking the Hide action.
Archlibrarian
At 14th level, you gain the follow abilities:
Brilliant Insight.
Divination spells for you may have the cast time of an action and you may cast any divination spell below 7th-level once per long rest without expending a spell slot or material components.
Power Word: Shush. Your shushing powers are mighty! If a creature uses an ability that you can hear like a Banshee's wail or a spell with a verbal component, you can use your reaction to identify the effect and, if you choose to, have the creature make a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save the ability does not trigger, and that creature cannot use that ability or that level of spell for 1 hour. Power Word: Shush cannot be used again until after a short rest once a creature has failed a saving throw.
Tomes
Librarian magics deal with tomes such as published writings, books, scrolls, and academic papers; media that was created to be read by others. Documents like journals and notes that were created to be mostly used by its writer fall outside your scope of abilities. You may also consider any book that belongs to you a tome.
Invocations
The Sanctuario Entre Mundos and its caretaker, The Librarian, grant boons to those seeking to collect and protect knowledge and aid in the search for answers.
Aegis of the Mind
Whenever you use a divination spell of 1st-level or above, until you finish your next rest you gain temporary hit points equal to your Warlock level + your Charisma modifier. Additionally, you have resistance to psychic damage while you have these temporary hit points.
Bewitching to Bookish
You swap your Intelligence and Charisma ability scores. Where your Warlock features would normally use Charisma, you instead use Intelligence. Additionally, you may learn a 1st-level spell from the Wizard spell list and gain proficiency in an Intelligence skill.
Almanac's Magic Map
9th level, Pact of the Tome
You may cast locate animals or plants, locate creature, and locate object once each per long rest without expending a spell slot.
Book of the Dead, Chapter 1
5th level, Pact of the Tome
Your Book now gives insight into life and death.
You can expend a warlock spell slot to cast any spell from the necromancy school. This spell's level must be of the expended slot's level or lower. Once you use this invocation, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
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Book of the Dead, Chapter 2
11th level, Book of the Dead, Chapter 1
You can cast any necromancy spell of 5th-level or lower, except for raise dead, without expending a spell slot. Once you use this invocation, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.
Book of the Dead, Chapter 3
15th level, Book of the Dead, Chapter 2
You can cast any necromancy spell of 7th-level or lower, without expending a spell slot or components. Once cast, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.
Additionally, at the end of each long rest you may learn any necromancy spell to know until you finish your next long rest. This spell must be of a level you can cast with your Pact Magic or Mystic Arcanum feature. If the spell is between 1st and 5th-level, you can cast it as a warlock spell (this spell doesn't count against the number of warlock spells you know). If the spell is between 6th and 9th-level, you can cast this spell by expending a use of Mystic Arcanum of the same level.
Libraries
A library is any structure that cultivates a safe study environment with at least 100 tomes or non-published documents that are not truly owned by one individual but open for others to read. All libraries are connected, not just by lending out tomes, but also through The Sanctuary which acts as a hallway between realms.
Cram Session
You crammed for the test, but failure hurts.
Choose an ability score. After studying your Book of Shadows for 10 minutes, you gain a pool of d6s equal to your proficiency bonus. Any time prior to the DM revealing the outcome of a d20 test, you may expend up to 2d6 on any d20 test made using the chosen ability score within the next hour. Any time you roll a 1 on your d6 rolls, you take irreducible psychic damage equal to your proficiency bonus.
Deus Ex Libro
Pact of the Tome
Your Book of Shadows can reveal the correct spell that you need at that moment. Once per long rest, by spending 1 minute studying your book, you may expend a Warlock spell slot to instantly cast any spell of a level not above the Warlock spell slot expended. You may not cast a spell with a casting time greater than 1 minute and if the duration of the spell would last longer than 1 hour, the spell instead fades after 1 hour.
Dewey's Nearly Infinite Bookshelf
7th level
You're living the dream, a place to keep nearly too many books.
You have a small pouch or chest that can be used to store up to 1000 tomes, as if it was a Bag of Holding.
Additionally, you know the spell secret chest and may cast it once per long rest without expending a spell slot.
Fiendly Advice
Pact of the Chain
Whether they ramble incoherently, speak sage advice, or just stare vaguely at you, your familiar has great guidance to give.
By spending 10 minutes consulting with your familiar, you and your familiar gain temporary hit points equal to your half your Warlock level and you gain advantage on your next Intelligence ability check and Wisdom saving throw.
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Guidance From The Librarian
Pact of the Tome
The Librarian gives a gift of intellect to those that serve The Sanctuary.
If you roll below a 5 on a d20 when making an Intelligence or Wisdom ability check, you may use a reaction to reroll and add your Charisma modifier. If you roll above a 16 on your reroll, you may not use this invocation again until you finish a long rest.
Additionally, you know the enhance ability spell.
Hippocratic Corpus, Chapter 1
Pact of the Tome
A medical spellbook becomes a part of your Book of Shadows.
You gain proficiency in the Medicine skill.
Additionally, once per short rest you may cast any spell that can heal another creature either directly, such as cure wounds, or indirectly, such as wither and bloom or life transference, by expending a Warlock spell slot equal to or greater than the slot required to cast that spell and following all the other rules of casting that spell. The chosen spell cannot revive a creature who has died.
Hippocratic Corpus, Chapter 2
9th level, Hippocratic Corpus, Chapter 1
You may double your proficiency bonus when making Wisdom (Medicine) skill checks.
Additionally, once per long rest, you may cast any healing spell, as defined in Hippocratic Corpus, Chapter 1, up to 5th-level without expending a spell slot or spell components but following all the other rules of casting that spell. This spell can revive a creature who has died up to one day ago. Additionally, one target of your healing spell heals additional hit points equal to your Warlock level.
Late Fee Hunter
9th level
Once per short rest, as an action, you can locate any tome you have touched or you know the title and current owner of, as if you had cast locate object with unlimited range. Alternatively, while holding a tome, you may locate the last creature that possessed that tome for more than a day, as if you had cast locate creature with unlimited range. You learn what plane your target is on if it is not on your plane. You may not use this feature on that specific target again until you finish a long rest.
Medallion of Mind and Spirit
Pact of the Talisman
The wearer of the Talisman has either their Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma ability score raised to 10 + your proficiency bonus. The ability score increased must be 9 or less.
Raising Spirits
5th level, Pact of the Tome
You learn the spell speak with dead and may cast it once per long rest without expending a spell slot. For 10 minutes after each casting of speak with dead you have advantage on all of your Charisma ability checks.
Reality Author
9th level, Pact of the Tome
Your writing shapes the world around you, nudging reality just a little.
By spending 1 minute writing in your Book of Shadows and expending a Warlock spell slot, you instantly cast creation, fabricate, hallucinatory terrain, or passwall. Once you've used this invocation, you must finish a short rest before using it again.
Reality Editor
15th-level, Reality Author
If a creature you can see uses a spell of 6th-level or less, prior to the completion of the caster’s turn, you may use your reaction to undo the spell that was cast if you can still see the caster.
The expended use of that spell is returned to the caster and any effects of that spell are undone. You may use this invocation once per short rest.
Scholar's Respite
9th level
You may cast teleportation circle once per long rest without expending a spell slot. For any library you have visited and checked a book out from, you can use the checkout counter as if it were the center of a teleportation circle.
Shield of the Paper Guardian
7th-level, Pact of the Tome
You may use an action, to put out all fires within 60 feet of you.
Additionally, you may cast fire shield on a creature you can see within 60 feet. You may cast this spell once without expending a spell slot and once cast, you may not cast fire shield again until you finish a long rest.
Silence as a Cloak
You are unnaturally quiet, you gain proficiency in Stealth and you may replace the verbal component of a spell with a somatic component instead which is still perceived by others. Also, a creature must make a Wisdom save against your spell DC to hear you move if they do not already perceive you.
Silence as a Shield
Pact of the Tome, Silence as a Cloak
You know the silence spell and when cast, you may center the spell on yourself for the duration. While you are within your sphere of silence, at the start of each of your turns if you are within your sphere of silence, you and one creature of your choice gain 5 temporary hit points.
Starbound Scholar
7th level, Pact of the Tome
Twice per long rest, you may consult your Book of Shadows and the stars as an action, using one of the following features to gain insight:
True Bearing. For the next hour or you use this feature again, you know the direction and distance to a specific creature or item if they are within 10 miles of you.
The Stars Know. Ask the DM a question, 10 words or less. The DM offers a truthful, potentially vague, reply using five words or less.
Student of the World
You have advantage on Intelligence saving throws.
Also, at the end of each rest, you may choose a language, skill, and tool to gain proficiency with until you finish your next rest.
Study Group
Student of the World
You may use the Help action as a bonus action on a creature that can hear you within 30 feet.
Also, as part of any rest with creatures who can understand you, you may impart a language, tool, or skill proficiency you are proficient with to a number of creatures equal to half your proficiency bonus. These proficiencies last until you either impart another proficiency or next dawn. For 8 hours after holding a Study Group, you may add a d4 to your Wisdom d20 tests.
The Wary Archeologist’s Toolkit
5th level, Pact of the Tome
You gain proficiency with thieves' tools and you may use your reaction to add half your Warlock level to rolls made when searching specifically for hidden doors or traps, or when making a saving throw against a trap.
Additionally, you know the spell gaseous form and may cast it once per long rest without expending a spell slot.
Warrior Poet
Pact of the Blade
You understand what it means to be a warrior: the body is but a vessel for your spirit.
A number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus, you may add your Charisma modifier to any d20 test you roll that uses Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.
Wise Words
You know the guidance cantrip. You may cast guidance as a bonus action on a creature you can see within 60 feet.
Additionally, twice per short rest you may use a reaction to add your Charisma modifier to either an ability check or saving throw that uses either Intelligence or Wisdom made by a creature who can hear you within 30 feet prior to the DM revealing the outcome.