Background: My DM allows some leeway on the idea of the Warlock’s Pact. My fiendlock is a seeker of occult knowledge that searches out the vestiges of once-powerful beings (i.e. similar to the 3.5E Binder class). I started my Fiendlock using the vestige of the Hag Countess Malagard – a powerful hag from the feywild that ruled in the Nine Hells only to be killed by Asmodeus.
Now, I’m looking for ideas for a vestige that could double as a Goolock or Fiendlock Patron. Specifically, I’m thinking about a dead-god (or other powerful being or aberration) whose vestige now resides on the astral plane. The weirder the better! It does not have to be from D&D mythology.
I like the GOO as a patron but not Cthulhu or any Lovecraft creatures but as a mind flayer one. So an ancient elder brain has contacted you from another plane (or the future) convincing you it is a god or powerful fiend of some sort and makes the deal.
Check out the Sibriex from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. It's an ancient demon "thought to be as old as the Abyss itself" with vast and terrible knowledge. They look ugly like a Gibbering Mouther and an Otyugh's illegitimate love-child. They collect secret lore both forgotten and forbidden from all over the planes. And they are unspeakably evil, warping the very flesh of all who venture too close to its bloated poisonous form.
If you are wanting Lovecraftien entities specifically, Nyarlathotep is the perfect choice. Of all the Lovecraft gods, it is the only one which is actively walking the Earth and interacting with Humans. Also while most of the other Outer Gods are described as unfathomable or incomprehensible, he is described as cruel and malevolent and seeks to cultivate followers. While he usually takes the form of a tall, rail thin and joyous man he also has over a thousand other forms which are described as horrifying.
So if you want something truly GOO and not from the Hells or the Abyss, that would be your best choice.
I use Ghaunadaur, in 3.5e he was a Drow god of slime and outcasts and in 5e he's a Great Old One, so I use him as a God trapped in the far realm and trying to make himself a member of the Drow pantheon again.
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My fiendlock is a seeker of occult knowledge that searches out the vestiges of once-powerful beings (i.e. similar to the 3.5E Binder class).
I know you're asking for ways to adapt vestiges to the warlock class, but since you referenced the old Binder class from 3.5E, I thought you might be interested in this, which revises and expands the Binder into its own 5E class and which I just released at DMsGuild:
Background: My DM allows some leeway on the idea of the Warlock’s Pact. My fiendlock is a seeker of occult knowledge that searches out the vestiges of once-powerful beings (i.e. similar to the 3.5E Binder class). I started my Fiendlock using the vestige of the Hag Countess Malagard – a powerful hag from the feywild that ruled in the Nine Hells only to be killed by Asmodeus.
Now, I’m looking for ideas for a vestige that could double as a Goolock or Fiendlock Patron. Specifically, I’m thinking about a dead-god (or other powerful being or aberration) whose vestige now resides on the astral plane. The weirder the better! It does not have to be from D&D mythology.
I like the GOO as a patron but not Cthulhu or any Lovecraft creatures but as a mind flayer one. So an ancient elder brain has contacted you from another plane (or the future) convincing you it is a god or powerful fiend of some sort and makes the deal.
Check out the Sibriex from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes. It's an ancient demon "thought to be as old as the Abyss itself" with vast and terrible knowledge. They look ugly like a Gibbering Mouther and an Otyugh's illegitimate love-child. They collect secret lore both forgotten and forbidden from all over the planes. And they are unspeakably evil, warping the very flesh of all who venture too close to its bloated poisonous form.
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Wow that thing is ugly. Sounds pretty perfect. I wonder what would be the motivation for this thing to share knowledge with warlock.
Yeah that thing is gross and cool.
More knowledge or more victims. Maybe both.
Ugh.
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If you are wanting Lovecraftien entities specifically, Nyarlathotep is the perfect choice. Of all the Lovecraft gods, it is the only one which is actively walking the Earth and interacting with Humans. Also while most of the other Outer Gods are described as unfathomable or incomprehensible, he is described as cruel and malevolent and seeks to cultivate followers. While he usually takes the form of a tall, rail thin and joyous man he also has over a thousand other forms which are described as horrifying.
So if you want something truly GOO and not from the Hells or the Abyss, that would be your best choice.
I use Ghaunadaur, in 3.5e he was a Drow god of slime and outcasts and in 5e he's a Great Old One, so I use him as a God trapped in the far realm and trying to make himself a member of the Drow pantheon again.
I know you're asking for ways to adapt vestiges to the warlock class, but since you referenced the old Binder class from 3.5E, I thought you might be interested in this, which revises and expands the Binder into its own 5E class and which I just released at DMsGuild:
The Binder Class