Well there’s the warlocks who genuinely think they live in a magical meritocracy and rapidly learn otherwise when the pact payment comes due, but the ones who are actually smart got an artificer degree and then maybe multi classed into warlock when they got a good enough offer.
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Well there’s the warlocks who genuinely think they live in a magical meritocracy and rapidly learn otherwise when the pact payment comes due, but the ones who are actually smart got an artificer degree and then maybe multi classed into warlock when they got a good enough offer.