Base Class: Warlock
You 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.
Raven Queen Expanded Spells
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Sentinel Raven
Starting at 1st level, you gain the service of a spirit sent by the Raven Queen to watch over you. The spirit assumes the form and game statistics of a raven, and it always obeys your commands, which you can give it telepathically while it is within 100 feet of you. While the raven is perched on your shoulder, you gain darkvision with a range of 30 feet. While perched on your shoulder, the raven can’t be targeted by any attack or other harmful effect; only you can cast spells on it, and it is considered incapacitated. Area of effect spells will still affect it. You can see through the raven’s eyes and hear what it hears while it is within 100 feet of you. In combat, you can send it a command as a bonus action.
If it is slain by a creature, you gain advantage on all attack rolls against the killer for the next 24 hours.
The raven doesn’t require sleep. While it is within 100 feet of you, it can attempt to awaken you from sleep as a help action. This will give you advantage on waking up checks The raven vanishes when it dies, if you die, or if the two of you are separated by more than 1 mile.
Using the duration of a short rest, you can call your raven back to you —no matter where it is or whether it died—and it reappears within 5 feet of you. This means of making your raven reappear makes it effectively plane shift back to the Shadowfell, then back to you.
Form of the Raven
Starting at 6th level, as a bonus action, while 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, 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.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Raven's Shield
Starting at 10th level, you gain resistance to necrotic damage, advantage on death saving throws, resistance to frightened, and have advantage on saves to end the frightened condition, when a save is made available.
Hand of the Raven Queen
Starting at 14th level, you can cast Finger of death as an action.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.