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#1 daspian Aug 12, 2014 14:19:33	My question pertains to the character i am building; a Warlock. me and the DM have come up with a homebrew Race and a demon-god (outer type being) tied to this race.   anyways, without burdening you with my char. background story....   my question: does a Warlock have to knowingly enter a pact with this patron... or could he? akin to the Sorcerer... have it within their blood?   i mean my character's backstory without giving to much is that this demon-god pretty much possessed the king of this homebrew race, banged the king's wife, then transferred a portion of his demonic essence into the child...then sent this child into our game's world ( this race is banished in another dimension by the other gods a long long time ago)..... anyways, he plans to use this child to scheme  his way back into the world....my question is, does a warlock have to knowingly enter a pact with this entity, or could his power be derived from this essence living inside him and he not even be aware what/ or how he's casting these spells, he just kinda assumed he was born with it and never questioned it etc. and sees it as just normal magic.   ( i know the sorc gains their power from bloodlines etc, but i didn't choose sorc cause i felt warlock was more akin to the char concept i was going for....character slowly corrupted from within etc).
#2 Mephi1234 Aug 12, 2014 14:55:44	my question: does a Warlock have to knowingly enter a pact with this patron... or could he? akin to the Sorcerer... have it within their blood?
#3 Mephi1234 Aug 12, 2014 15:03:07	Anyways!   I reread your little blurb about having an actual demon inside of him, and that does count as a Patron.  Just add having flashes of insight come to him in dreams, or some such, and it would make perfect sense for him to assume its normal sorcery.     So, I'd say you're good to go on that end, even if your GM would insist on the standard Patron bits instead of innate sorcery.
#4 daspian Aug 12, 2014 16:13:32	awesome, thanks for the info! yea my DM is cool with it and all, usually i'm the DM, but with the new 5e i asked if i could finally be a player for once, never had a opportunity too... and asked one of our players who felt he wanted to try and take a crack at it after seeing it, and with the new release of 5e where we all are kinda getting used to the new rules, he felt it a good opportunity to jump in...he's pretty chill with whatever... i'm more of the stickler for the rules =S
#5 Undrhil Aug 12, 2014 21:16:10	Soo .. he's a bhaal-spawn from Baldur's Gate II?
#6 daspian Aug 13, 2014 11:32:36	haha pretty much =P except The demon-god isn't dead... it's trapped in a interdimensional prison ( along with his minions I.E. the homebrew race)... but yea it's pretty much Bhaal =P   that thought actually never crossed my mind till now you mention it.. lol damn it pretty much is a bhaalspawn rofl......and here i thought i was being original.