#lichs

Using a Phylactery is the more complicated way, only possible by extremely powerful lichs. These Elder Lichs are extremely powerful, but that's because they were powerful before they did it.

Modern lichs basically reanimate their own body and then attach their soul to it. This is far less complicated, if less elegant. It's also troublesome until the flesh rots away.

Let’s talk about the sheer insensitivity lichs face on a day to day basis. Do you think every thousand year old lich you meet just came into being as a soul bound by magic to a walking skeleton? No, these babies were once as human as you or the human next to you! They had flesh and blood!

And this means they’ve had to go through some very traumatic changes over the decades.

Yes.

They had to decay.

Can you imagine noticing you’re beginning to decompose for the first time?

The horror of losing hair and skin and floppy bits?

You’ve never decomposed before and now it’s all happening at once and oh god there’s probably bugs in there

Honestly, I’d set myself on fire and get it over with, but most lichs need to go through this horrendous process like a caterpillar being viciously melted and reformed in the cocoon into an equally terrifying flying beast.

Is it any wonder many of them are confused, disoriented, slightly evil?

Have some compassion for your fellow being!

The next time an ancient lich is trying to splice your soul to a snail’s, try asking, “Are you sure we can’t talk about your problems?”

Lichs are just necromancers who animate their own dead body. It's not the easiest thing to do, but it doesn't make them especially impressive. Just people so desperate to cling to life that they don't mind walking around in a walking corpse.

“lick”