45 CURSES AND OTHER WARLOCK PHRASES

by Esper

Whenever your character casts a spell like ​hex​, do you simply say, “I cast hex on the target”?
What about, “I curse that one”? Well, there’s nothing wrong with that per se, but if you’d like
to put more life into your character, I present to you here a number of curses you can utter at
the foes you so loathe. The initial inspiration for these does come from the warlock, but other
classes have access to cursing spells, such as ​bestow curse ​or ​bane​, and beyond that, anyone
can simply curse at someone else, in the non-magical sense.

I have created here not only lines that your character can speak, but also descriptions you can
give of how your curse looks or feels to the target.

General
1. [spoken] Your hopes shall wither. Your life shall fade. Your delight shall turn to
bitterness.
2. [spoken] To ash you return, and the winds scatter you into oblivion.
3. [spoken] The cruelest of fates now sings your dirge.
4. [spoken] May your flesh be rent by a thousand hooks.
5. [spoken] I spit on you. I bite my thumb. O’ foul one, your downfall draws near.
6. [description] An ominous bell tolls, the hairs raise on the back of the target’s
neck, and an icy chill runs down its spine.
7. [description] The veins all throughout the target’s body darken and pulsate. Its
heart begins to race.
8. [description] The target’s complexion grows pale, and its eyes take on a fixated
and bloodshot look.
Celestial Warlock
9. [spoken] The Divine have handed down their judgement. The penance for your
sins is death.
10. [spoken] On seraph wings I fly to deliver unto you swift retribution.
11. [spoken] You are a shame before the eyes of [god]. You shall be purged from
this world.
12. [description] A number of stoic-faced guardian spirits gather around the target
and point their celestial blades in condemnation.
13. [description] A thunderous reverberation shakes the ground momentarily, and a
godly voice booms in rebuke of the target.
14. [description] A celestial sigil appears over the target’s head. It is marked for
divine vengeance.
Fey Warlock
15. [spoken] May you die spitting like cat and braying like a donkey.
16. [spoken] The hidden folk come to steal you away and rid the world of your
miserable presence.
17. [spoken] I’m going to laugh at your corpse and piss on your grave.
18. [spoken] I drink to your death, I toast to your ill seven rounds. I’ll crack a cask
with all my lads when they lay your ass in the ground.
19. [spoken] Firbolgs take you and bugger every hole you’ve got!
20. [description] Strange little faces appear from hiding, within undergrowth or
cracks in the walls. They ready to fire tiny darts and arrows at the target.
21. [description] Madcap laughter echoes around the target. Little discolored spots
appear all over its body.
22. [description] A shower of glimmering dust falls over the target, and some unseen
minstrel strikes a dissonant chord on his fiddle.
Fiend Warlock
23. [spoken] May you be cast onto the scorching plain of Hell for all eternity without
a drop to drink.
24. [spoken] Engulfing mire and bubbling tar, take this doomed soul down into your
fetid belly.
25. [spoken] I shall hurl you into the depths of the Underworld, and you shall hang,
impaled on a hellspike until the end of time.
26. [spoken] May devils skewer you in orifices you never even knew you had.
27. [spoken] The Lord of Hell is preparing a feast, and you shall be the main course.
28. [description] An odor of sulphur emanates from the target, and it begins
sweating blood.
29. [description] Moaning souls of the damned howl in the near distance. They are
coming to take the target away.
30. [description] A cloud of black flies encircles the target. Their wings create an
infernal buzzing noise.
Great Old One Warlock
31. [spoken] Your reality is but a thin veneer over the horror that lurks just beyond.
Once stripped away, your mind will shatter.
32. [spoken] Into the maw of madness you fly! Into the maelstrom you sail!
33. [spoken] You have been chosen by That Which Lies Beyond The Stars. Give
yourself up and prepare to be taken.
34. [spoken] Your time has come. They await you. Feel now their grasping embrace.
35. [spoken] You have lived blind to the ancient terrors that dwell at the fringes of
the waking world. Dire shall be the cost of your ignorance.
 36. [description] A hundred whispering voices sound around the target. Some of
them speak its deepest fears directly into its ear.
37. [description] An ominous constellation of nebula and stars appears overhead. A
deep thrum resonates as though from some colossal throat.
38. [description] The target feels slithering sensations running across its body. Thin
patches of slime form upon its skin.
Hexblade Warlock
39. [spoken] The shadows are deep, deeper than night, on ebon wings they fly.
What harrowing call, what starkest vision, what ultimate dream—to die.
40. [spoken] Every road you’ve traveled and bridge you’ve crossed has led you to
this final moment. Your end is nigh.
41. [spoken] Now you enter the hall of shadows, and I am your executioner.
42. [spoken] I shall rend your flesh and flay your soul!
43. [description] The target’s shadow takes on nightmarish shapes and threatens
the target itself.
44. [description] Specters whirl and spin about the target in a ghastly cyclone. Their
voice rasp of the target’s impending doom.
45. [description] An oppressive melancholy falls over the target, and its heart fills
with a tragic sense of its own downfall to come.

May your adventures be many!