What would a lich want?

What a lich craves is power. A lawful evil lich craves the power to dominate others. A chaotic evil lich craves the power to destroy. A neutral evil lich may want one or the other, or both.

Does a lich have a soul?

Rather, its soul will return to the phylactery, and its body will be recreated by the power keeping it immortal. Thus the only way to permanently destroy a lich is to destroy the phylactery as well. Therefore, the lich will generally be extremely protective of the priceless item.

Does a lich have to be a skeleton?

All lich are undead, but not all undead a skeletal.

What is a lich ghost?

In fantasy fiction, a lich (/ˈlɪtʃ/; from the Old English līċ, meaning “corpse”) is a type of undead creature. Often such a creature is the result of a wilful transformation, as a powerful wizard skilled in necromancy who seeks eternal life uses rare substances in a magical ritual to become undead.

What happens to souls in a phylactery?

While in the phylactery, the character doesn’t experience an afterlife. After that 24 hour period, the soul is destroyed, not transported to their deity to experience an afterlife.

Do Liches need to consume souls?

Diet. A lich does not need to eat, sleep or breathe, but over its epic lifespan must eventually consume mortal souls to sustain the magic that protects its undead form.

Do Liches need to breathe?

A lich does not need to eat, sleep or breathe, but over its epic lifespan must eventually consume mortal souls to sustain the magic that protects its undead form.

Are there any good things about a lich?

While time heals all wounds for most, it preserves a lich’s wounds forever. A lich never forgets those people or perspectives that harmed it in life, and it certainly never forgives. Contrary to popular belief, liches aren’t all bad. It’s just that 99% of them are indisputably evil. A lich retains whatever alignment it was when it achieved lichdom.

What do liches remember about their mortal lives?

Unlike most other types of undead, liches remember everything about their mortal lives: from lost elven loves, to professional triumphs, to the dark path that led them to lichdom. The memory of the emotions they felt is forever burned into their minds, but their new, unfeeling forms don’t allow for those emotions to ever mature.

Is it possible for a Lich to die of old age?

Nor can a lich die of old age. Liches have made themselves resistant or immune to many forms of attack, whether innately through their undead state or by some other means.

What happens when you go to the Lich’s lair?

Mortals who spend too much time around a lich are afflicted with nightmares and madness, objects they own become dark and warped, and the land around the lich’s lair becomes cold, haunted and bereft of life. Evil spirits and nameless dark powers inhabit the lair where a lich is almost always encountered.