You have made a pact with Lues, the Plaguebearer, a being fueled by mortals' fear of disease, insects, decay, and any sort of parasitic or unhealthy relationship. Lues is usually unable or unwilling to influence the material plane beyond granting supernatural abilities to those he believes will provide even more fear that he may feed on. If he has chosen you, he either believes you will make the fear of sickness and rot widespread, or that you yourself will develop into a source of this fear.
Expanded Spell List
Lues 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.
| Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 1st level | false life, detect poison and disease |
| 2nd | animal messenger, acid arrow |
| 3rd | stinking cloud, bestow curse |
| 4th | giant insect, black tentacles |
| 5th | insect plague, contagion |
Rotten Skin
Starting at 1st level, you contract a seemingly benign but utterly incurable skin infection. Whenever a creature makes contact with your skin, you may use your reaction to deal 1d2 poison damage to them. This increases to 1d4 at 6th level and 1d6 at 14th. Additionally, you gain resistance to poison damage.
Flesh Hive
Starting at 6th level, you become the home of a swarm of insects. Choose one of the variants listed under swarm of insects (you may choose to replace them with a suitable alternative, such as flies for wasps or worms for beetles); as an action, you may deal 5d4 damage to yourself to summon a friendly swarm of your chosen variant of insect with twice as many hit points as the damage used to summon it. You may only have 1 swarm created this way in existence at a time. As a bonus action, you can deal 1d4 damage to yourself and heal the swarm for twice as many hit points while it is within 10 feet of you.
Putrid Stench
Starting at 10th level, you have begun to decompose, or at least it seems that way. As an action, you may cast the spell cloudkill centered on yourself. It takes 1 hour for enough gasses to build up to use this feature again.
Sweet Song of Rot
Starting at 14th level, you have become attuned to your swarm and can hear it singing to you in the back of your mind. The swarm of insects you summon using the Flesh Hive feature has 2d8 temporary hit points when summoned, and deals double damage while it has temporary hit points remaining. You may talk with the swarm in any languages you know and understand what it says back to you. Additionally, while the swarm is in the same space as you, you gain +2 AC.