Devious Phylactery Hiding places.

Thaumaturge

Wandering. Not lost. (He/they)
On the far side of the moon.

There is an LG mod that does this, so if you have any LGers, they might guess it. :uhoh:

Thaumaturge.
 

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crazy_monkey1956

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To deter detections and the like...

The lich once had a beholder as an ally. When the beholder lost an eye from one of its eyestalks, the lich put in a false eye, his phylactery. Though the beholder now no longer has function in that eye, it is now hideously advanced, possibly with class levels, and has become rather attached to his false eye.
 

Ravilah

Explorer
If this were my campaign, I know where I'd put it. On Carceri, in the Bastion of Last Hope, stands a featureless warehouse with no windows or doors. The eyes of passersby tend to just slide right past it. This is the House of Oblivion, the place where lost and forgotten things go. The inside of the House is much larger than the outside, and might actually exist on a separate demiplane. The place is filled with piles of lost and forgotten trash, treasure, artifacts, and memories. The ghosts of those whose memorial stones have faded away dwell here, as well as the shadows of forgotten events. The aura of residual magic has spawned many Huge and Gargantuan raggamuffins.
The real trick is, though, that nothing can get in unless it is lost or forgotten. No gate will open there, no crystal ball will scry inside. Players will have to figure out how to get hopelessly lost, and hope that everyone they know stops thinking about them.
 


Maybe long ago the Lich made a Wish that his Phylactery was indestructable, one of those wishes that gets fulfilled but in a format that makes it a disaster for the caster. . .

Maybe thanks to that Wish the Phylactery is now an Artifact, and hence indestructable, and it's only means of destruction is for the Lich to be truly forgiven by the God of Wrath (or appropriate wrathful and unforgiving evil deity appropriate to the campaign), and the Lich suffers from the Wrath of said deity on a regular basis, hence part of why he's seeking destruction?
 


crazypixie said:
The phylactery is a sealed box that was given to a paladin while the lich was in disguise. The disguised lich asked the paladin to vow to guard the box for all eternity. The paladin went on to become a saint of his faith and his burial site (with the box lying with him in his sacrophagus) became the sight of the holy cathedral of the campaign world's dominant LG religion.

Consider this filched! :D Thank you!
 




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