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A lich's most often depicted distinguishing feature from other undead in fantasy fiction is the method of achieving immortality; liches give up their souls to form "soul-artifacts" (called a "soul gem" or "phylactery" in other fantasy works), the source of their magic and immortality. Many liches take precautions to hide and/or safeguard one or ...
A mage becomes a lich by means of necromancy, using a magical receptacle called a phylactery [26] to store the lich's soul. [26] [27] A lich is emaciated in appearance. [28] In some sources the method of becoming a lich is referred to as the Ritual of Becoming or Ceremony of Endless Night. [29]
In the MMORPG Tibia (video game), there is a Lich boss named "Koshei The Deathless" who hides his soul in 4 pieces of an amulet that are scattered around the gameworld. Koschei appears as an NPC in the roguelike action RPG Moon Hunters.
Lich (Dungeons & Dragons), the original application of the term for undead sorcerers; Lich (comics), a Marvel Comics character; The Lich, a fictional character, the titular character from the eponymous episode "The Lich" of the animated TV show Adventure Time
Szass is a lich, an undead necromancer. He is the leader and most powerful of the Red Wizards of Thay, a group consisting of eight wizards with the title of zulkir who are the rulers of the country Thay. Many of the creatures that serve Szass Tam are undead. [1] [2] [3]
About twenty years prior to the events of Lich King, the villainous Deathwing, once a fellow Dragon Aspect named Neltharion, manipulated the Dragonmaw Clan, a group of orcs, to use a magical artifact known as the Dragon Soul to capture and enslave Alextrasza in the mountain fortress of Grim Batol. She and her mate Tyranastrasz were forced to ...
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following The Burning Crusade. It launched on November 13, 2008 and sold 2.8 million copies within the first day, making it the fastest selling computer game of all time released at that point.
The alhoon, also known as the illithilich or mind flayer lich, was introduced in the Menzoberranzan boxed set, in the booklet "Book One: The City" (1992). The book The Illithiad (April 1998 [ 19 ] [ 20 ] ), and the Monstrous Arcana module series that accompanies it, greatly develops the mind flayer further.