Witch Patron

Source: Hexbound

Witches need a mentor to teach them witchcraft. Warlocks need a patron to grant them their powers. As a Witch Patron warlock, your mentor and your patron are one and the same. An incredibly powerful witch taught you witchcraft, and through your covenant they also became both your mentor and your patron. Your magic stems both from the summoning of spirits and from your mentor themselves. You are able to tap into your patron’s immense source of magic, so long as they agree with your actions.
Under the watchful eye of your familiar, your patron sees your every move. Whether this is to protect you from harm or to ensure you carry on their evil deeds depends on the mentor and patron you chose. Your training under an immensely powerful witch has taught you the importance and strength that lies in belonging to a coven; a powerful coterie of magic users that enhance each other’s magical abilities. You know that there’s strength in numbers, and with both your coven and your familiar at your side, there’s little in this plane or any other that can oppose you.

Witchmark

Witch Warlocks have the most diversity in their witchmarks, since they depend solely on their patron and mentor. Some noble witch mentors use their family’s coat of arms as their witchmark, while other patron mentors choose a witchmark in the shape of a ring around the finger of their pupil to illustrate their bond. The most common motif is chains snaking around the body of the pupil symbolizing the unbreakable covenant between the patron mentor and the student.

A Warlock Witch Familiar

As a Witch Patron warlock, you and your familiar have a bond more intense than any other master does with their familiar. Your familiar is an integral part of your playstyle, and they could also very well be an integral part of your party. Your familiar is able to speak, and has its own thoughts and feelings. It also acts as the never-blinking eye of your patron, which can lead to all sorts of shenanigans for the party.

Here are a couple of tables that you can roll on to make your familiar more of a character and less like a collection of stats and numbers. Work with your GM to use this as a springboard to flesh out your familiar’s personality in order to make it a true member of the party.

Personality Trait

d8	Trait
1	I am my warlock’s shepherd. I’m here to watch over them and won’t let them stray away from their path.
2	I see myself as a mentor to my warlock. I’ll make sure they don’t neglect their studies, and will routinely quiz them on the basics and oversee their spellcasting.
3	I am actively looking for new suitable students for my master, and will try to bring these potential pupils to them.
4	I see myself as a parental figure to my warlock, and will act as such.
5	I am deathly afraid of animals and will do my best to avoid them.
6	I am convinced I am the leader of the adventuring party, and will act as such.
7	Nothing angers me more than someone treating me like a normal animal.
8	I am a big gossip, and don’t know how to keep a secret to save my life.

Flaw

d8	Flaws
1	Once I’ve made up my mind about something, or someone, it takes a lot for me to change my initial opinion.
2	I follow the orders of my master blindly, without taking into account my warlock’s feelings on the matter.
3	The only two people I trust are my master and my warlock. I am suspicious of every person other than those two, including the other members of the party.
4	I see myself as superior to people, and have a hard time taking their feelings into account.
5	I have a hard time understanding feelings and I’m not good at communicating them or dealing with those felt by others.
6	If my warlock’s orders go against what I personally believe is the best course of action, I will ignore them.
7	I believe my master’s magic is the most powerful source of magic in the universe. I see all other forms and sources of magic as inferior and I’m not afraid to let those that use them know.
8	I will defend my warlock without any regard to my well-being.

Bond

d8	Bonds
1	I am deathly afraid of my master. I see my warlock as my only way out of this and I’m traveling with them to make them strong enough to take their patron down.
2	I was once a warlock in the same contract that binds my current warlock to my master. I am magically unable to tell them about it.
3	I love my warlock above all things and will protect them with my life.
4	I’m using my warlock to advance my own agenda.
5	I long to return to the realm of the fey where I hail from.
6	I am secretly a fiend, not a fey spirit. I outwardly appear to be helping my warlock, but I’m actually sabotaging their plans.
7	I love both my warlock and my master equally, and I’m scared what would happen if their interests started to diverge.
8	I see my master as a parental figure, and have great respect for them. I won’t tolerate anyone speaking ill of them or working against them.