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<blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 8481985" data-attributes="member: 4601"><p>I really liked Van Richten's Guide to the Lich and found that it shed quite a bit of light on them in a way that made them more disturbing and terrifying, and helped "diversify" them a bit. Koschei the Deathless, Dorian Gray, Sauron and Voldemort are all different "liches" of sorts. </p><p></p><p>This does sound like fun, though, and I might have to raid it for my own Worlds Without Number game. WWN's version of the Lich are creatures called "The Unending", who have performed a ritual that has severed them from The Legacy (the techno-magical basis of magic and existence in the Vancian setting of the Latter Earth) and thus rendered themselves immortal and outside of the programming of the Legacy, becoming demigod-like entities. The sort of action that can do this, however, is monstrously evil - think genocidal sacrifices of entire nations.</p><p></p><p>(I also recall a Kobold magazine ecology of the Lich and Demilich article that suggested a lot of interesting ideas - one of which was a demilich that, rather than a jeweled skull, consisted of a spinal column. I can imagine a gilded spine, stiffened and rendered into a sort of wand, that contains the soul of an ancient lich - granting it's wielder earthshaking power, but gradually consuming them... Acererak meets The One Ring meets Stormbringer... ooh... yeah, I think that's going in the campaign too...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tyler Do'Urden, post: 8481985, member: 4601"] I really liked Van Richten's Guide to the Lich and found that it shed quite a bit of light on them in a way that made them more disturbing and terrifying, and helped "diversify" them a bit. Koschei the Deathless, Dorian Gray, Sauron and Voldemort are all different "liches" of sorts. This does sound like fun, though, and I might have to raid it for my own Worlds Without Number game. WWN's version of the Lich are creatures called "The Unending", who have performed a ritual that has severed them from The Legacy (the techno-magical basis of magic and existence in the Vancian setting of the Latter Earth) and thus rendered themselves immortal and outside of the programming of the Legacy, becoming demigod-like entities. The sort of action that can do this, however, is monstrously evil - think genocidal sacrifices of entire nations. (I also recall a Kobold magazine ecology of the Lich and Demilich article that suggested a lot of interesting ideas - one of which was a demilich that, rather than a jeweled skull, consisted of a spinal column. I can imagine a gilded spine, stiffened and rendered into a sort of wand, that contains the soul of an ancient lich - granting it's wielder earthshaking power, but gradually consuming them... Acererak meets The One Ring meets Stormbringer... ooh... yeah, I think that's going in the campaign too...) [/QUOTE]
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