Pact of the Aegis

Homebrew Warlock Pact - Options are Eldritch Invocations available for this pact.

You can use your action to create a pact aegis, which takes the form of either a shield in your empty hand or a suit of light or medium armor upon you. You can choose the form this aegis takes each time you create it, but you cannot create a suit of armor if you are wearing armor already. You are proficient with this shield or armor while you use it, and you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells.

Your pact aegis disappears if it is more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. It also disappears if you use this feature again, if you dismiss the aegis (no action required), or if you die.

You can transform one magic shield or magic suit of light or medium armor into your pact aegis by performing a special 1-hour ritual while in physical contact with it. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. You can then dismiss the aegis, shunting it into an extradimensional space, and it appears whenever you create your pact aegis thereafter. You can’t affect an artifact or sentient shields or armor in this way. The shield or armor ceases being your pact aegis if you die, if you perform the 1-hour ritual on a different shield or suit of armor, or if you use a 1-hour ritual to break your bond to it. The shield or armor appears at your feet if it is in the extradimensional space when the bond breaks.