#character ideas

With that said, what if you had a pet Husk? Always at your heels, some ghost-eyed gangling thing with mechanical jaws and unnaturally strong arms. Is it possessed by someone you knew, or a vat-brewed specter designed to be a perfect hunter? I think this sounds most appropriate as an irreplaceable ally, perhaps even a custom piece of gear that acts as the method when you Skirmish or Wreck.

note: this isn't limited to warlocks

The patron wasn't even aware of the deal being made (likely a great old one)

The patron is the lesser of two or more evils and doesn't really co operate with other evils to further their will

they were tricked into doing it, the patron granted their wish but then twisted it, and the warlock pact was the result. Example: the wisher wanted to impress someone, the warlock pact made them cast Charm Person, and the person who was charmed wasn't happy that they were charmed and rebuked them for it

(fiend) the patron wanted to put intrusive thoughts and horrible whispers into their head at all times to hopefully tempt them into evil after learning they had potential

the patron learned that they were destined to kill the character an indeterminate amount of time into the future, but they love a good fight so they gave out the pact so that the character would put up a good fight when the time of their death came

The patron is so self centered that a little bit of flattery was enough to convince them that a pact was worth it (some demons)

The pact maker was forced to serve under them but escaped

The patron wanted to see through that person's eyes because they had valuable information

The pact maker was such a hot mess and overall an interesting/ entertaining person that the patron wanted to just see what chaos would unfold with them gaining powers

the patron only cares for personal prestige and wants to collect as many warlocks as they can for bragging rights, without any specific longterm plan

The pact maker did some sort of horrible thing by accident, which benefitted the patron, and the patron gave the pact maker powers as an ironic 'thank you'

The pact maker is destinied to come into contact with some people that the patron wants information on, so they made the pact in order to spy on people better, unbeknownst to the pact maker

The pact was given in exchange for a favour

Like a character that can make an area low visibility, like the spell darkness or fog cloud in DND

Or even a character with smoke bombs or something?

Like imagine throwing one at a widow and it is like a weaker version of her poison mine, doing some DMG over time but it's less deadly causing coughing because of the smoke. And it obscures the widow's view so now they have to move or risk waiting it out and dying to someone one they can't really see

I feel like that could be cool, especially if it outlined the enemies in the cloud for Allies and yourself so you can still attack them but they need to get away from that spot in order to fight back properly (which considering most characters have some form of movement ability wouldn't be too hard, unless it is on cooldown)

Especially with an assassin style character? Maybe even a melee character that uses daggers and unlike kiri and her kunai, they don't throw them!

But they also don't go invisible like sombra, or turn into smoke like Reaper or Moira