Beside every "Pact of the Chain" Warlock, there's a familiar there who helps make everything happen.
Whether they are their voluntarily, or have been subjugated by your Patron into service, these little guys / gals help to define your warlock for the duration of your campaign.
In a way, they have their own backstory, essentially adding to the Warlock / Patron / Familiar relationship...is the familiar loyal to the Patron? Was the familiar captured by the Patron and forced to work for them, much like your Warlock? Is the warlock & the familiar actively working against the whims of your Patron...?
So I thought it might be interesting for those who have played Chain Warlocks to describe their familiar, and perhaps some feats they have helped accomplish.
Personally, I have formulated a sprite familiar built around the new "Genie" subclass...
They are a sprite named "Lemli" (a shortened version of Le Million Lionel, or rather..."Lemon-Lime", because sprite). ; )
"Le Million" (aside from the popular anime character from "My Hero"), is the official title of a group of mercenary sprites who provide services to extra-planar entities, in exchange for protection for their people from threats too large for sprites to deal with. In this sense, these Le Million sprites are viewed as heroes among their people.
Translated from the French term, "The Million", they are quite literally a million, highly-skilled sprite operatives specializing in infiltration, sabotage, and espionage across the cosmology. All of these sprites have the rank of "Le Million" preceding their own name, my warlocks familiar's own name being Lionel.
Lionel is particularly effective at carrying out missions, a veteran who earned the nickname "Lemli". Somewhere between Captain Price from "Call of Duty" & Pip Bernadotte from "Hellsing", Lemli has the appearance of a French special forces operative...a long trenchcoat, combat boots, beret, quiver & bow slung over his shoulder, and can always be seen smoking a cigar (which essentially gives off a wisp of smoke like a candle). He has a French-accent, and possesses a very pragmatic, often pessimistic attitude. He is highly fatalistic, knowing that his job often will result in him being killed / resurrected, and calmly states that "Le Million has no fear of death". He has served my warlock's djinn Patron for "about a century or so", and considers her one of the more decent masters he has been employed by.
Le Million is known for their expertise, unyielding willpower to get a job done, and discretion...countless empires have fallen, criminal organizations sabotaged, and wars ended due to the involvement of these sprites, with no one even knowing who they are.
Anyone who directly threatens Le Million or the sprite folk suffers the worst fate they can muster: "Mort par millions de blessures", or the "Death by a million injuries"...a single, concentrated assault from all of their operatives.
Lemli has said that this does not happen often; the only example in recorded history being when the first Le Million slew an Ancient Dragon and claimed it's hoard...the treasure which has sustained the sprite folk ever since.
My Dark Knight character (Paladin/Warlock) in a highly Homebrew campaign (mix of Eve online, Spelljammer, WH40k, Diesel/cyber punk and Chtulhu) ended up getting an Imp companion( i allready had the PotB, but the events that led to the bugger been my "companion" made it that i would have a second Pact, so by all means it counted as me having the pact of the chain)
The Imp was Seth, and we ended up asking him information that only he had, and that we really needed.
So he wanted to make a deal, One was to give him one of his eye in exchange.
none of the crew was too keen on loosing an eye, and since our cleric was not at the level to have the appropriate spell to regenerate a lost organ, they where all hesitant.
My character then proposed something( in accordance with the DM), that We Exchange each an Eye, he'll get one of me, and i'll get one of him, so that he could see through my Eye and i through his.
Took some persuasion, but it ended up as is, the little bugger found me interesting enough that he decided to hang with us, on the condition, that I offer him the eyes of my vanquished foes.
See Seth in his past live, was Either a Mortician or a Taxidermist, no one knows really, but when he died and was sent to hell, and ended up has an Imp, he kept this morbid fascination for Eyes, he had a BoH full of them in little glass jars in formol...
He spent nearly all his time has a Raven, and would always try to peck out the eyes of people that caugth his curiosity, wich was a pain to deal with.
And he was a really picky collector, only the eyes with the most beautifull hues where worthy of him...( bugger though he was some big shot devil...) (i was playing him as a mix of Yago from Aladdin and Rocket Raccoon from GotG, so he would constatnly crack dark jokes and mock my character whenever he could)
He loved to use his Paralyzing needle gun that our Clockwork MAge did for him (Kobold Press, Deep Magic supplement, lets you basically play as Iron Man and one spell lets you imbue a mechanical device with spells for a limited usage, the needle gun was casting Hold Person), he would use it on people so that they stay still while he plucked their eyes out to add them to his collection...
His other weapon, was a Beam Cannon (device that cast Bolt of Ligthning), he was reluctant on using it, since it had the tendency to char the flesh and liquify the eyes, but when my Character ordered him to shot with it( cause we really needed it ina dicy situation), then he had no choice, he would pester and be a royal pain for a few days after that.
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"Normality is but an Illusion, Whats normal to the Spider, is only madness for the Fly"
Beside every "Pact of the Chain" Warlock, there's a familiar there who helps make everything happen.
Whether they are their voluntarily, or have been subjugated by your Patron into service, these little guys / gals help to define your warlock for the duration of your campaign.
In a way, they have their own backstory, essentially adding to the Warlock / Patron / Familiar relationship...is the familiar loyal to the Patron? Was the familiar captured by the Patron and forced to work for them, much like your Warlock? Is the warlock & the familiar actively working against the whims of your Patron...?
So I thought it might be interesting for those who have played Chain Warlocks to describe their familiar, and perhaps some feats they have helped accomplish.
Personally, I have formulated a sprite familiar built around the new "Genie" subclass...
They are a sprite named "Lemli" (a shortened version of Le Million Lionel, or rather..."Lemon-Lime", because sprite). ; )
"Le Million" (aside from the popular anime character from "My Hero"), is the official title of a group of mercenary sprites who provide services to extra-planar entities, in exchange for protection for their people from threats too large for sprites to deal with. In this sense, these Le Million sprites are viewed as heroes among their people.
Translated from the French term, "The Million", they are quite literally a million, highly-skilled sprite operatives specializing in infiltration, sabotage, and espionage across the cosmology. All of these sprites have the rank of "Le Million" preceding their own name, my warlocks familiar's own name being Lionel.
Lionel is particularly effective at carrying out missions, a veteran who earned the nickname "Lemli". Somewhere between Captain Price from "Call of Duty" & Pip Bernadotte from "Hellsing", Lemli has the appearance of a French special forces operative...a long trenchcoat, combat boots, beret, quiver & bow slung over his shoulder, and can always be seen smoking a cigar (which essentially gives off a wisp of smoke like a candle). He has a French-accent, and possesses a very pragmatic, often pessimistic attitude. He is highly fatalistic, knowing that his job often will result in him being killed / resurrected, and calmly states that "Le Million has no fear of death". He has served my warlock's djinn Patron for "about a century or so", and considers her one of the more decent masters he has been employed by.
Le Million is known for their expertise, unyielding willpower to get a job done, and discretion...countless empires have fallen, criminal organizations sabotaged, and wars ended due to the involvement of these sprites, with no one even knowing who they are.
Anyone who directly threatens Le Million or the sprite folk suffers the worst fate they can muster: "Mort par millions de blessures", or the "Death by a million injuries"...a single, concentrated assault from all of their operatives.
Lemli has said that this does not happen often; the only example in recorded history being when the first Le Million slew an Ancient Dragon and claimed it's hoard...the treasure which has sustained the sprite folk ever since.
What about your Chain familiars? Share below!
My Dark Knight character (Paladin/Warlock) in a highly Homebrew campaign (mix of Eve online, Spelljammer, WH40k, Diesel/cyber punk and Chtulhu) ended up getting an Imp companion( i allready had the PotB, but the events that led to the bugger been my "companion" made it that i would have a second Pact, so by all means it counted as me having the pact of the chain)
The Imp was Seth, and we ended up asking him information that only he had, and that we really needed.
So he wanted to make a deal, One was to give him one of his eye in exchange.
none of the crew was too keen on loosing an eye, and since our cleric was not at the level to have the appropriate spell to regenerate a lost organ, they where all hesitant.
My character then proposed something( in accordance with the DM), that We Exchange each an Eye, he'll get one of me, and i'll get one of him, so that he could see through my Eye and i through his.
Took some persuasion, but it ended up as is, the little bugger found me interesting enough that he decided to hang with us, on the condition, that I offer him the eyes of my vanquished foes.
See Seth in his past live, was Either a Mortician or a Taxidermist, no one knows really, but when he died and was sent to hell, and ended up has an Imp, he kept this morbid fascination for Eyes, he had a BoH full of them in little glass jars in formol...
He spent nearly all his time has a Raven, and would always try to peck out the eyes of people that caugth his curiosity, wich was a pain to deal with.
And he was a really picky collector, only the eyes with the most beautifull hues where worthy of him...( bugger though he was some big shot devil...) (i was playing him as a mix of Yago from Aladdin and Rocket Raccoon from GotG, so he would constatnly crack dark jokes and mock my character whenever he could)
He loved to use his Paralyzing needle gun that our Clockwork MAge did for him (Kobold Press, Deep Magic supplement, lets you basically play as Iron Man and one spell lets you imbue a mechanical device with spells for a limited usage, the needle gun was casting Hold Person), he would use it on people so that they stay still while he plucked their eyes out to add them to his collection...
His other weapon, was a Beam Cannon (device that cast Bolt of Ligthning), he was reluctant on using it, since it had the tendency to char the flesh and liquify the eyes, but when my Character ordered him to shot with it( cause we really needed it ina dicy situation), then he had no choice, he would pester and be a royal pain for a few days after that.
"Normality is but an Illusion, Whats normal to the Spider, is only madness for the Fly"
Kain de Frostberg- Dark Knight - (Vengeance Pal3/ Hexblade 9), Port Mourn
Kain de Draakberg-Dark Knight lvl8-Avergreen(DitA)
Funny & macabre...awesome imp.