The Formless Mother

You become an adherent of the Formless Mother, an outer god that occupies an infinite plane as a fleshy mass.

The Formless Mother relishes in pain, and invites her devotees to cause her physical harm through temporary portals they can create to reach her with their blades and nails.

The blood of her wretched form ignites upon contact with the Material Plane's air, and causes those who touch it to bubble with lacerations from which bleeding cannot stop.

Expanded Spell List

The Formless Mother 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.

Formless Mother Expanded Spells

Sanguinary Arts

At 1st level, the Formless Mother bestows upon you the knowledge and skill necessary to effectively arm yourself for battle. You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons that deal slashing or piercing damage. When you attack with a weapon with which you are proficient, your patron guides your hand; you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls.

Additionally, many of your abilities add bleed counters to your enemies. When a creature that is not an undead or a construct accumulates 3 bleed counters, it takes necrotic damage equal to your Warlock level + its challenge rating (rounded up) at the start of its next turn. After this damage is applied, the bleed counters are expended.

If your current turn ends without a creature that has bleed counters gaining any more since your last turn, it loses 1 bleed counter. A creature cannot accumulate more than 3 bleed counters, and any additional bleed counters gained beyond 3 are lost.

Wreath of the Formless Mother

Starting at 1st level, you gain the ability to bathe your weapon in your patron's lifeblood. As a bonus action, you thrust your weapon into the Formless Mother through a momentary portal and coat it with her ever-flowing gore. The coating lasts for 1 minute, and ends early if you die, or you are incapacitated. Until the coating ends, you gain the following benefits:

• Every successful weapon attack you make against a creature adds 1 bleed counter to it.
• A weapon attack roll you make against a target that has at least 1 bleed counter on it is a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20. A critical hit adds 2 blood counters.
• If a creature that has at least 1 bleed counter dies within 10 feet of you, you regain hit points equal to your Warlock level + your Charisma modifier.

You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

Bloodboon

Starting at 6th level, you can carve deeper wounds into the Formless Mother, much to her pleasure and your enemies' despair. You can use an action to shove your forearm into a small portal, pulling out a sizeable chunk of your patron's flaming blood. With the same action, you can expend the blood in one of the following ways:

• Bloodflame Talons. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the creature takes 2d10 fire damage and 2 bleed counters, and is pushed 10 feet away from you.
• Bloodboon Arc. With a swing of your arm, you scatter bloodflame over a 30-foot cone. Each creature in the cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 8d6 fire damage and 1 bleed counter. On a success, it takes half damage and no bleed counters.
• Bloodboon Shower. The Formless Mother's blood rains over a 5-foot-radius, 10-foot-high cylinder centered on you until the start of your next turn. Creatures other than you that enter the area for the first time or start their turn there take 4d6 fire damage and 1 bleed counter.
• Shredding Blasts. You cast Eldritch Blast. On a hit, a target takes 1 bleed counter per beam, in addition to the beam's damage.

You can take this action a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain expended uses on a long rest.

Dynast's Riposte

At 10th level, your connection with the Formless Mother shields you from harm. If a target that has at least 1 bleed counter hits you with an attack roll, you can roll a d6. On a 4 or higher, the attack instead misses you, regardless of its roll.

If an attack misses you as a result of this feature, you can use your reaction to make a weapon attack against the target. On a hit, it takes the weapon's damage as normal and 2 bleed counters.

Ritual of Naught

Starting at 14th level, the Formless Mother invites you to inflict ritual mutilation upon her infinite corporeality. You can use your action to impale your patron not once, but thrice. In doing so, you apply an empowered blood coating to your weapon, and an echo of the Formless Mother's pained pleasure resonates from you. All creatures you choose within 30 feet of you immediately take 3 blood counters, and you regain a number of hit points equal to 1d8 for each affected creature.

The empowered coating lasts for 1 hour, and ends early if you die, or you are incapacitated. In addition to the features normally granted by the Wreath of the Formless Mother, you gain the following benefits while the coating lasts:

• You are resistant to fire damage.
• You can use your action to attack three times, instead of once.
• You sprout dark feathery wings, gaining a flying speed of 60 feet.
• After you target a creature with a melee weapon attack, that creature cannot make an opportunity attack against you until the start of your next turn.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.