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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Not a Decepticon" data-source="post: 9853959" data-attributes="member: 7020527">The idea of Lich is a combination of many different elements from many different folklores, especially the Koshei the Deathless, with Jewish term<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tefillin?useskin=vector" target="_blank"> phylacery</a> thrown in, and we can see its influences in modern media, especially after The Lich being the main villain of Adventure Time, we can see influences of D&D-style Lich on many villains like the Beast from over the Garden Wall or Emperor Belos from the Owl House, and even somewhat retroactively modern interpretations of Skeletor (even though Mumm-Ra is argurably more lichy of the two 80's villains)The concept of a "Simple Sword & Board Fighter", which people annyoingly demand even unrelated games like Draw Steel to adhere to, which to be perfectly honest, I have hard time actually finding in fiction from before D&D, where most archetypical knights or warriors either fight with a two-handed weapon, or use shield exclusively on a horse, with a lance. And some characters who do use shield, like Captain America, are not what I'd call simple.This one may be more going off the vibes. The thing I see sometimes in media is when the story introduces a group that seems to lack any sort of initial cohesion and just gives a feeling of a misplaced D&D adventuring party - people of all professions, walks of life and aesthetics vaguelly filling typical d&d archetypes and giving a feel of fantasy characters, often feeling very out of place in the setting, whose members are of different species or, in humans-only stories, at least different ethnicities. Sometimes its done on purpose like monster hunters in Perdido Street Station. I'm not sure whenever it was intentional with other examples, like mercenaries in Netflix Yasuke, which include a muscular Russian werebear woman, an African Shaman, a scantily-clad assassin, a catholic priest and a freaking robot. The show takes place in Japan soon after death of Oda Nobunanga, btw.First time I have gotten this "mispalced D&D party" feeling from a group of characters, however, was Marvel Comics' the Black Order, who barely seem to have anything in common aside serving Thanos and even then sometimes they do mercenary jobs.[ATTACH=full]429096[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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