Long has it been since mages had first gained dominion over death through however blasphemous methods a form of extended nigh-undying existence can be achieved through mastery of each school of magic. Below are 12 forms of immortality.
1st The Sloth - âLich" Restoration
The 'traditional' lich, no longer wishing to bother with the wastes of life. Indeed, a lich rarely worries about being destroyed, as its phylactery will always return it, so why should it bother? Using this time it can raise endless hordes of undead and can plot revenge on its own time, on its slayerâs progeny. A lich hides its original death within a phylactery, a magical container that if destroyed also destroys the lich.
2nd The Ignorance - "The Echo" Alteration
Preventing their death through sheer denial like that of a revenant, Through their mastery They achieve immortality by simply replacing or duplicating their body and can only be destroyed should every last one be as such.
3rd The Cowardice - âThe Gespenâ Conjuration
A Tulpa exists its own bastion of a demiplane where the effects of time simply do not apply. Many of them have contingency planes to escape to should anyone someone get past their hordes of monsters which the Gespen uses as proxies to do their bidding on other realms to maintain their eternal youth. Should a Gespen be killed their body instantly teleports to an aforementioned contingency plane where it regenerates with the help of a familiar. However this leaves the obvious vulnerability of simply targeting the familiar, which is easier said than done.
4th The Lust - âThe Regaia" Enchantment
The Regaia lives through others, devouring their soul and replacing it with their own, it is possible for them to control multiple people through splitting conscious, however this will result in a weaker grip on the respective hosts. To defy death the Regaia keeps a sliver of their soul in a comatose husk in which their entire being may be transferred to in the case of termination.
5th The Gluttony - âSargâ Abjuration
A Sarg is completely incorporeal as it exists in a separate and overlapping plane and interacts with the world through telekinesis. Sargs may shift matter in and out of their plane with only them knowing how. To sustain themselves they require souls that they feast endlessly on the one crossing to the afterlife In the event that they are somehow destroyed. They are resuscitated by a repository of their spirit which serves as a phylactery.
6th The Avarice - "The Gilded" Transmutation
Using transmutation a Gilded slowing turns their flesh to steel or any other such material immune to the ravages of time. They must consume other souls for sustenance as their lack of biology fails to do so. In the event of destruction the soul is transferred to a new metallic body and rises soon after. These bodies must have once been biological, usually taken from their victims and transmuted in the same process save for the lack of a soul living an empty vessel.
7th The Envy- "The Cancer"Â Transformation
8th The Wrath - âMakt" Evocation
A powerful soul contained bound to bones encased within elemental and elemental shell. A Makt has mastered healing their golem form to such degree that destroying it is nigh impossible. As such it is reckless, destructive, and will often do more damage to itself than its victims can manage themselves. By eliminating their weakness of flesh and mortality, granting themself incredible regeneration while its bones remain intact. Like other common liches, they still share the quality of requiring souls for fuel. The Makt is almost entirely unkillable with their sole weakness being the enchanted bones that bind them to their form.
9th The Malice - âRemnant" Construction
A Remnant has a nigh-endless supply of enslaved constructs having their bodies turned against them through machine puppets the hapless victims can only watch and lament their horrid fate, the immortality of a remnant is thus to subsist off the suffering of their slaves which also induces great susceptibility to possession
10th The Pride - "Saklepa"
A Saklepa achieves immortality by bypassing aging through transferring the effects of time to a phylactery. To circumvent the problem of both the phylactery and, thus themselves turning to dust. A Saklepa will siphon youth, the longer the potential life they consume the more time they get. In the event of their death, they send their consciousness back in time in an attempt to avoid death, They cannot transfer again until the moment of their previous death, which is one of the two ways of destroying one; the other being the usual of destroying the phylactery and aging the Saklepa to oblivion.
11th The Corruption - âTulpa"
A âminor planeâ slowly growing and consuming other realities so that the Illusion Creatureâs self can manifest indefinitely. It is sustained by the belief of other not unlike a god. Its bodies are simply simulacrums, and its realm is cold and manipulative. An information hoarder, like a living library or index. Mirrored surfaces are abound so the creature may gaze at itself always. The Tulpa hides the truth of its original death under multiple layers of illusions. Souls lost within the Tulpa become its nourishment, but it feeds best on a life lived within the belief of its reality. Destruction of a Tulpa can only be achieved by unraveling their web of lies and deceit.
12th The Despair - âHadrach"
A person who has removed themselves from time by sheer degree of prescience, witnessing the extent of time and reality around it, understanding in full the suffering of existence. The Despair sees and knows all, and must simply follow the path that keeps it immortal. As long as it has a divide in the road, it can take the deathless path. It spends it's time scrying the circumstances of possible death. Particularly powerful Hadrachs may leave an impression of their being using their knowledge of the future. Unlike most Liches it does not require souls by definition however to cross paths with one is to become entangled in its machinations. However a Hadrach is never truly undying for their path always must end at one point. Forcing it into a "dead" end is the only way to reliably eliminate one.
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