Editing Hexblade (section)

====Fey Pact====
Strangely, the default version of the Fey Pact for Hexblades is associated with the [[archfey]] of the Winter Court, giving you a reliance on cold damage. This may be a result of the more limited designs of Essentials classes needing stricter defined power-sets.

''Pact Boon:'' You can use your Dexterity modifier (with a cumulative +2 bonus at levels 5, 15 and 25) as a damage bonus to your warlock attack powers. It also applies to the damage rolls of your Warlock's Ally from 9th level onwards.

''Pact Reward:'' Soul Step, an at-will (though 1/round) teleport of squares equal to your Dex modifier triggered when you drop a creature to 0 hit points or an adjacent creature drops to 0 HP.

''Pact Weapon:'' The Blade of Winter's Mourning, a one-handed melee light blade made from an unearthly blue metal. It has a proficiency bonus of +3, uses a d10 damage die, and grants access to the at-will & encounter attacks Icy Skewer and Piercing Shard, respectively.

''Pact Weapon Retribution:'' Winter's Retributive Escape, an encounter attack power that lets you teleport away from an enemy's melee attack whilst inflicting cold & psychic damage.

''Summon Warlock's Ally:'' You can summon a Wood Woad, a humanoid plant armed with a big club, tough skin, and driven to protect you.

''Hexblade's Action:'' When you spend an action point, you can use a free action to turn invisible and teleport Dex modifier squares, either before or after you take the extra action. You remain invisible until the end of your next turn.

''Pact Aspect:'' +2 to Bluff checks, +1 to Speed.

''Pact Curse:'' You can use the Curse of Shattered Armor 1/encounter. This inflicts 3d10 + Cha modifier damage on an enemy within 5 sqaures and causes them to grant combat advantage until the end of your next turn.

''Pact Invocation:'' You can use the Fey Invocation 1/day; until the encounter's end, roll a D20 whenever you take damage. You double the damage on a 1-2, halve it on a 10+, and take it as normal otherwise.

''Improved Pact Boon:'' When you use Soul Step, you become invisible to your enemies until the end of your next turn.

''Pact Transformation:'' The Feywild Transformation can be invoked 1/day. Until the encounter's end, you gain a +2 power bonus to Reflex and Will, can teleport up to 3 squares as a move action, and, 1/round, can use the secondary power, which inflicts psychic damage on all creatures within a close burst 1 and renders you invisible to any of them that you hit until the end of your next turn.

''Greater Summon Warlock's Ally:'' Your Greater Ally is a Frostbite Treant, a [[treant]] from the wintery regions of the [[Feywild]] that thusly wields gouts of cold and soul-sucking limbs to protect you by destroying your enemies.

=====Fey Pact of the White Well=====
This variant of the Hexblade Fey Pact was introduced in Dragon #393, and is based on bonding to a specific [[archfey]] - the Lady of the White Well. This faerie godling is the illegitimate daughter of the [[Seldarine]] goddesss [[Sehanine]] and a mortal [[eladrin]], the result of an elaborate vengeance ploy by [[Lolth]] based on rape-by-deceit & proxy.

See, before Lolth fully completed her descent into evil and began the elven civil war that spawned the three fey races - [[eladrin]], [[elf]] and [[drow]] - she was obsessed with jealousy over the favor felt by [[Corellon]] for [[Sehanine]]. So, she magically beguiled an eladrin knight, cloaking him in an illusion so he looked like Corellon, and guided him to a pool where Sehanine liked to bathe. Believing the eladrin to be her consort, Sehanine laid with him and conceived a daughter.

Outraged by this act of infidelity, in the heat of passion, Corellon cursed the demigod to be forever bound to the proximity of the pool where she was conceived. The only way she would be free is if she were ever to give her heart freely to another. Sehanine cared for her daughter, giving her power over the night and teaching her powerful magic, but ultimately was forced to abandon her when the elven civil war ended and, in the wake of the [[Dawn War]], the gods were banished to the [[Astral Sea]].

As a Hexblade of the White Well, you represent one of those few would-be suitors who made it to the White Well and impressed the Lady enough that she offered not only boons, but the legitimate chance to win her hand and her heart.

Except where noted, this functions exactly the same as the standard Fey Pact above.

''Pact Weapon:'' White Well Hexblades wield the Sword of the White Well, the enchanted blade once owned by the Lady's paternal ancestors, which the Lady's father hurled into the pool after learning he had been tricked into conceiving her. This is one-handed melee heavy blade whose blade shines like moonlight, with a +2 proficiency bons and a D12 damage dice. Its associated at-will & encounter attacks are Moonfire Blade and Well of Light respectively.

''Pact Weapon Retribution:'' White Well hexblades can use the Moonlit Escape encounter power, which lets them respond to an attack by an adjacent enemy by inflicting psychic & radiant damage on them, becoming insubstantial until the start of their next turn, and shifting 1 square.

''Summon Warlock's Ally:'' The Lady was served during the early days of her exile by eladrin handmaidens. Though they perished of old age centuries ago, her power sustains them as ghostly warriors, who she sends to attend a powerful hexblade champion. These Mourning Handmaidens are undead fey in the form of beautiful eladrin women, who can paralyze with the touch of their white-bladed swords and partially shield their charge from damage.

''Hexblade's Action:'' When you spend an action point to take an extra action, you regain a number of hit points equal to your Charisma modifier. In addition, you can take a free action to teleport a number of squares up to your Dexterity modifier, either before or after the extra action.

''Pact Aspect:'' You gain a +2 bonus to Diplomacy and Initiative checks.

''Pact Curse:'' By summoning the Curse of Blinding Radiance, once per encounter you can blind and sear a foe with radiant damage, as well as inflicting extra radiant damage with attacks against them until the end of your next turn.

''Pact Invocation:'' Through the power of the White Well Invocation, you can call upon the Lady's attention. Whilst she strives to shield you from harm, her presence may overwhelm you with her sorrow. This Daily utility grants you an aura of bright light that lasts until encounter's end; whilst it is active, roll a D20 whenever you take damage. On a 1-2, you are dazed until the start of your next turn, on a 10+ you can teleport up to 5 squares and become insubstantial until the start of your next turn (you still take the damage, though). Any other result has no effect.

''Improved Pact Boon:'' When you use Soul Step, you become Insubstantial until the end of your next turn.

''Pact Transformation:'' Through the power of the White Well Transformation, you can become a radiance-clad figure whose light fills their foes with terror.

''Greater Summon Warlock's Ally:'' Such is your might that you can summon the Spectral Protector, the watchful shade of the Lady's long-dead father, who employs the crushing weight of his centuries of grief to scour the minds of others and wither their resolve to fight.