Female Liches?

[Byrons_Ghost]

Demon God's Fane had a female lich in the module background, I think her name was Susanstir or something similar. Anyway, I drew her up as the BBEG when I scaled the module up for my 16th-level party.

The ironic thing? They spent half the adventure looking for her phylactery, but never figured out what it was. They ended up destroying it anyhow, thinking it was an evil artifact, but to the end of the campaign they were still expecting to get ambushed by a pissed-off lich and her demonic minions around every corner.

Just give the players enough rope...

 

[Dreeble]

PoR2:RoMD

Heya:

There's a female lich in Pool of Radiance 2: Ruins of Myth Drannor. Her story is one of the more interesting ones in the game. Bottom line is that an arcane caster researching (and then casting!) a spell called "Mass Ressurection " is probably not a good idea.

Take care,
Dreeble

 

[Strutinan]

I had a female "lich" as the centric uber-villain in my Dark Sun game. In Lands of Molokai I have three so far.

 

[Mercule]

I think the reason why most liches tend to come off as male is because a fleshless skeleton is pretty much a neuter object. In English we use the masculine pronouns for the neuter. So, when someone sets out to create a lich from scratch, they use a neuter "he" to refer to it when the history doesn't much matter.

Either that, or it's the fact that a chainmail bikini wouldn't add much to the lich's apperance.

Regardless, I've seen a female lich or two (actually, the only demi-lich I've encoutered was "female"), but they do seem to be the minority.

 

[Psion]

Discerning female undead sorcereresses go the vampire route so they can be all sensual and seductive...

And I am only half kidding. I think that many arrogant villainess type females would be vain about their lost youth, though I have had a few hag-lich types.

 

[Zappo]

I've had a female lich, sort of. She was the subject of certain experiments on making a lich tied to the elemental plane of fire instead of the negative energy plane. It didn't really work; she is a scorched skeleton with eternally raging flames in her eyesocks, and she feels them during every moment. She quickly went insane from the pain, and was locked up for further study.

 

[Oni]

I'm thinking the reason they are not so common is they don't conform to the stereotype of the woman seeking immortality. Stereotypically speaking, mean seeking immortality, either are on a quest for power, or are afraid to die. Women on the other hand are usually seeking to preserve their failing beauty, lichdom doesn't really serve the last purpose especially well.

 

[s/LaSH]

Well, don't actually have one in my campaign... largely because lichdom is 'flawed' when compared to vampirism. If you don't care about things like skin and organs, go ahead and become a lich, but a vamp is stronger and faster, just as smart, a little tougher with fast healing, and gets to keep her face. (There are those pesky vampiric weaknesses, but a vamp spellcaster doesn't have to worry about them quite as much, and isn't affected by losing a phylactery.) Needless to say, one of the villains in my campaign... well, if you've read my comic you'll know Guen. If you haven't, you're a bad man.

(No prizes for spotting the quote.)

 

[Gez]

I think the reason why most liches tend to come off as male is because a fleshless skeleton is pretty much a neuter object. In English we use the masculine pronouns for the neuter. So, when someone sets out to create a lich from scratch, they use a neuter "he" to refer to it when the history doesn't much matter.

In French, which doesn't have a neutral form, the word for lich is feminine. Une liche.

In Arena, the first game of the Elder Scroll series, the lich always looked female IMHO.

But maybe that's just because of the long flowing red hair.

 

[Angcuru]

Discerning female undead sorcereresses go the vampire route so they can be all sensual and seductive...

And I am only half kidding. I think that many arrogant villainess type females would be vain about their lost youth, though I have had a few hag-lich types.

y'know, that's probably it.

Anyone here ever play BG2? Bodhi probably when for vampirism for the same reason....beside the fact that she wasn't a mage......aw hell..I dunno.