Matron of Ravens

Your patron is the Raven Queen, a mysterious being who rules the Shadowfell from a palace of ice deep within that dread realm. The Raven Queen watches over the world, anticipating each creature’s death and ensuring that it meets its end at the proscribed time and place. As the ruler of the Shadowfell, she dwells in a decayed, dark reflection of the world. Her ability to reach into the world is limited. Thus, she turns to mortal warlocks to serve her will. Warlocks sworn to the Raven Queen receive visions and whispers from her in their dreams, sending them on quests and warning them of impending dangers.

The Raven Queen’s followers are expected to serve her will in the world. She concerns herself with ensuring that those fated to die pass from the world as expected, and bids her agents to defeat those who seek to cheat death through undeath or other imitations of immortality. She hates intelligent undead and expects her followers to strike them down, whereas mindless undead such as skeletons and zombies are little more than stumbling automatons in her eyes.

Expanded Spell List

The Raven Queen 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 Raven Queen's Expanded Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	bane, cure wounds
2nd	moonbeam, spiritual weapon
3rd	aura of vitality, glyph of warding
4th	guardian of faith, phantasmal killer
5th	dawn, steel wind strike

Hex Warrior

At 1st level, you acquire the training necessary to effectively arm yourself for battle. You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.

The influence of your patron also allows you to mystically channel your will through a particular weapon. Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch one weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the two-handed property. When you attack with that weapon, you can use your Charisma modifier, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest. If you later gain the Pact of the Blade feature, this benefit extends to every pact weapon you conjure with that feature, no matter the weapon’s type.

Raven Familiar

The Raven Queen has gifted you one of her ravens from the Shadowfell. It uses the below statistics:

Your Raven follows all the normal restrictions of the find familiar spell. As it is not an Attack action, Dark Omen may be used in combat.

Should you later gain the Pact of the Chain feature, your Raven will receive the Resistances / Immunities detailed above, but not until then. The same applies for the Flyby feature.

While the Raven is perched on your shoulder, you gain darkvision with a range of 30 feet. If you already have darkvision from your race, its range increases by 30 feet. You also gain a bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) score and to Wisdom (Perception) checks, equal to your Charisma modifier. While perched, your Raven cannot take damage, nor can it be the target of any attacks, harmful effects, or spells - aside from your own. 

If it is slain by a creature, you gain advantage on all attack rolls against the killer for the next 24 hours.

Soul of the Raven

At 6th level, you gain the ability to merge with your raven spirit. As a bonus action when your raven is perched on your shoulder, your body merges with your raven’s form. While merged, you become Tiny, you replace your speed with the raven’s, and you can use your action only to Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide, or Search. During this time, you gain the benefits of your raven being perched on your shoulder. As an action, you and the raven return to normal.

Raven's Shield

At 10th level, the Raven Queen grants you a protective blessing. You gain advantage on death saving throws, immunity to the frightened condition, and resistance to necrotic damage.

Spectral Raven Claw

At 14th level, you learn the spell Bigby’s Hand, which takes the appearance of a Raven's claw. It counts as a warlock spell for you, but it doesn’t count against the number of spells you know. You can also cast it once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a short or long rest.

Whenever you cast this spell, the Raven Queen bolsters you, granting you additional damage equal to your warlock level whenever you make an attack roll with Bigby’s Hand. Moreover, damage can’t break your concentration on this spell.