The Future Self

Your patron is you in a decades-distant future. Perhaps your future self found an artifact of great power connecting them to the past, which they must now lead you to discover, or perhaps they were taught the mystic arts by their future self long ago, and you will have to continue this cycle by teaching yourself someday. Your future self has forgotten the finer details of some things, and outright refuses to tell you about things you "can't know yet", but offers compelling insight and guidance nonetheless. You're not quite sure what your future self is planning for your future (and for their past), but one thing is certain - they need you alive.

Future You Quirks

Strange effects linger after communicating with your future self. You gain one of the following traits:

1. You often speak in the wrong tense or refer to yourself in a plural.

2. You sometimes refer to a person you just met by name, before they've introduced themselves.

3. Even in dire circumstances, you are unreasonably calm.

4. In certain lighting, you look much older than you are.

5. Seeing certain people alive can instantly reduce you to tears.

6. Your future fashion sense clashes completely with that of today.

Expanded Spell List

Your future self 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. Spells from the Valda's Spire of Secrets sourcebook are marked with an asterisk.

1st. accelerate/decelerate*, instant replay*

2nd. delay*, recall*

3rd. haste, protection from energy

4th. death ward, dire warning*

5th. evasiveness*, legend lore

It Happened Like This

Starting at 1st level, your discussions of the future with yourself have given you some periphery knowledge about how events played out. When you take a short or long rest, your GM rolls a d20 and a d4 in secret and records the number rolled on the d20. The GM tells you the number recorded, unless they rolled a 4 on the d4; in that case, they give you false information: a random number from 1 to 20.

You can replace any attack roll, ability check, or saving throw you make with this recorded value. You must choose to do so before the roll and can only use this recorded value once. If the GM gave you false information, they inform you after you replace the roll.

I Could Do With Fewer Scars

At 6th level, your future self often warns you of particular attacks to watch out for. When a creature you can see makes an attack against you, you can use your reaction to gain a +10 bonus to your AC against that attack.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Expect an Ambush

At 10th level, your future self always warns you about potential ambushes. As a result, you cannot be surprised while you are conscious, and you have advantage on initiative rolls.

Grandfather Paradox

At 14th level, your knowledge of the future allows you to exploit some of the rules of spacetime. As an action, you can goad a creature that can hear you into causing a paradox. The creature must make an Intelligence saving throw against your warlock spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature is stunned for up to 1 minute, locked between two opposing timelines while the paradox sorts itself out. An affected creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Once you use this ability, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.