The Lich

Part 1 - The ideological origins

Liches are among the most feared undead monsters in the role playing universes. They are ancient and powerful mages who transferred their souls into a receptacle called a phylactery to attain the state of the living dead on their own. Thus, they obtain a form of eternal life accompanied by a significant increase of power, often achieved by the centuries of magic studies that follow their "rebirth". The big particularity with them is that they are one of the few undead (along with the vampires) able to retain their will, which makes them much more dangerous than an army of mindless zombies.

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