The Knowledgeable

A being thought to be an unfathomable figment of people's imagination, the Knowledgeable One goes by many names through many cultures and is known as the being that feasts on new knowledge. The power it holds is unlike any creature seen but comes with strings in ways many don't often appreciate or understand how to handle.

Pact Magic Surrogate

Your patron holds many key points of knowledge throughout all of history, time, and space; however, his knowledge and abilities can not be passed on to a follower in the manner most are accustomed to, leaving many to give up before fully understanding the scope of the knowledge and powers they’re abandoning. 

This variation in Pact etiquette starts right at the beginning when followers learn that they aren’t granted Tangible magic; rather, they are granted a knowledge collector, a mystical creature that they can command to perform spells once a bond has been formed. The creature itself takes the form of various different creatures in order for you and other people to comprehend its physical existence; however, it still does have other actions it can perform outside of casting spells and abilities granted by the form it has assumed and is listed in the stat block below.

In combat, your knowledge collector shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and act on its own; however, it will always opt to protect you and itself before anything unless given commands as a bonus action during your turn. If you are incapacitated, your Knowledge Collector may attempt to stabilize you one time. On a failure, they are unable to try again until you have been stabilized, and instead opt to protect your body until you succeed or help comes.

If your knowledge collector would drop to less than 0 Hit Point, without being immediately stabilized, it will vanish into nothingness, taking with it every other person’s memories of it and information it granted them via you. In order to obtain a new knowledge collector you must dedicate at least one short rest and any money necessary to put to paper all information about your prior knowledge collectors, the information they granted you, and an explanation about how you failed to protect the gift bestowed upon you by your patron. After compiling this information, you must bind it between a set of leather covers and title the work in its name before finally offering up the creation to the knowledgeable one himself, forfeiting it in a blue flame (Fire must be colored through any means, except magic). If your patron accepts this knowledge as the full scope of information and your forfeit of knowledge, he will bestow upon you a new collector in a form of his choosing.

 

 

Expanded Spell List

The Knowledgable One has allowed you to choose from an expanded list of spells when you and your knowledge collector learn a warlock spell. The following spells are added to the warlock spell list for you.

Knowledgeable Expanded Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	Detect Magic, Identify
2nd	Detect Thoughts, Misty Step
3rd	Sending, Private Sanctum
4th	Fire Shield, Wall of Fire
5th	Contact Other Plane, Legend Lore

Arcane Flux

6th-level Knowledgeable feature

In your pursuit of knowledge, your patron has found that you and your knowledge collector are quite in tune with one another and has found you worthy of wielding a construct visible only to you and your knowledge collector, known as an Arcane Flux. 

This Arcane Flux acts as a metaphysical journal that allows you to cast (2 + Proficiency) spells that your knowledge collector is able to cast by yourself, using the Arcane Flux as a spellcasting focus without your knowledge collector's aid. Spells cat this way still consume a spell slot, but do not stop the collector from casting a spell themselves. 

Another property this Arcane Flux holds is that it also allows for an additional spell to be transcribed from a forthcoming wizard's spell book or artificer's recipe and/or blueprints. Spells added via transcribing can be changed by having your knowledge collector consume the metaphysical pages on which the spell is written. After a long rest, new pages are added and a new spell can be recorded. (Spells you learn this way must be of a level you can cast.)

Knowledge Beyond Self

10th-level Knowledgeable feature

At 10th level, you’ve proven yourself to be a worthy follower of the Knowledgeable One and he wishes to reward that. Choose two spells from any classes, including this one. A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Warlock table, or a cantrip.

True Follower

14th-level Knowledgeable features

The Knowledgeable One looks upon you in approval and delight. As a token of his appreciation, he bestows upon you not only a boon of his mighty physical power but even more he permanently enhances your Arcane Flux with the power of your Mystic Arcanum allowing you to expend a usage of your Arcane Flux in place of your arcanum.

Boon of the Knowledgable One -

• Phase Shifting. Using double your movement, you and anything you’re carrying can enter the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa. You are not visible on Material Plane while on the Ethereal Plane, but can view it as though you were there, and vice versa. You can do this so long as you have at least half of your maximum health. If your hit points drop below half, you are ejected to the Material Plane and fall prone. You can't use this feature again until you've completed a long rest.

• Mind Meld. As an action, you touch a creature. Once contact has been established the creature makes a DC (8 + Proficiency Bonus + Charisma Mod) Wisdom Save. On a fail, you are able to seek the knowledge you desire from the creature you touch. Once you've found the information you seek, they fall prone. On a success, you are able to read the surface thoughts of the creature before being ejected from its mind and they are immune to this ability for the next 24 hours and are frightened of you.