Female Liches?

[blackshirt5]

Well, she was too busy taking over the Eldreth Valthura (or however it's spelled) and trying to wipe out all of humanity from Faerun, with a side order of searching for the Forge of Moradin (which would give her the paragon template) and being about 1 adventure away from demilichdom.

I'm kinda an ass like that.

And I figure that I'll eventually be an ass like that, so I'm gonna borrow that. Should be a fitting followup to Keraz the Vampire King.

 

[WizarDru]

I just had one in my game, a few months ago. Her name was Taen the Clearcut, a lich ex-druid/blighter. She was a little emotionally unstable, don't you know.

I think Oni hit the nail square on the head...it doesn't really match the fiction of the female undead, from a dramatic standpoint.

That said, the idea that there aren't female monsters is pretty odd. Most of the animals and vermin could be of either variety...some creatures fall solidly in the 'OTHER' gender category, such as many outsiders, construct, oozes or elementals, and still others just have a picture for the male, but there's no practical difference between them.

 

[jaerdaph]

The cover art for Goodman Games upcoming Complete Guide to Liches features a female lich.

http://www.goodman-games.com/3003preview.php

And don't try to muscle in on me guys - I saw her first

 

[Corlon]

I don't know why, but my campaigns mainly have males in them unless one of the characters is a female (which has happened only once in 3 years about 4 different campaigns).

Nothing wrong with female bad guys, and if a male spellcaster can do it, why couldn't a female?

 

[Pseudonym]

Kalamar has at least one female lich, Simura. She's the main badguy in the adventure Deathright.

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

From the Complete Guide to Liches preview:

A philolich: the reanimated remains of a lich's mortal lover, whose power is linked to that of her lich companion.

That reminds me of something I saw a while back on the History Channel. This rich old guy had a thing for a younger woman who died before he could marry her, so he built a mausoleum for her and the family let him put her there. Not long afterwards he secretly took the body to his house and "restored" the body by scraping off the decay and insects and whatnot, and then trying to preserve her. He even put a layer of wax on her face and shaped it to resemble a human face, and replaced her eyes with glass ones.

He was pretty crazy, and when he was caught (the deceased woman's sister got suspicious and confronted the guy) he said she even came back to life and spoke to him...

I think at his hearing they decided he hadn't actually broken any laws. Later they found out he'd been having a *ahem* physical relationship with the departed.
I guess if he was a lich and she actually was reanimated it would fit that description from the preview perfectly.
Sometimes truth is much stranger than fiction.

Note: She was put on display for a while after the incident was brought to light. The pictures they showed were too creepy for words. They spoke to a guy who saw it when he was a child and he said that it's appearance was very disturbing and a lot of them had nightmares for a long time afterwards.

 

[Li Shenron]

Sorry for the very off topic, but Gez's note about French reminded me that I don't know how to pronounce the word Lich. How is it in English?

Lich

...like church?
...like fish?
...like hot?
...like pick?

I also suppose the lich is actually like ee...

 

[Gez]

Sorry for the very off topic, but Gez's note about French reminded me that I don't know how to pronounce the word Lich. How is it in English?

Lich

...like church?
...like fish?
...like hot?
...like pick?

I also suppose the lich is actually like ee...

Like fish for me, but I'm not a definitive autority for English.

In Ars Magica, they said the word "lich" came from an old gaelic word meaning "life". This may lead to "lich" having a very wacky pronounciation.

 

[Li Shenron]

In Ars Magica, they said the word "lich" came from an old gaelic word meaning "life". This may lead to "lich" having a very wacky pronounciation.

I thought I heard it came from an old English word to say "human".

 

[WizarDru]

Sorry for the very off topic, but Gez's note about French reminded me that I don't know how to pronounce the word Lich. How is it in English?

As far as I know, it is pronounced like the word 'itch'. This is the way that everyone I have ever met has pronounced it.

From Websters:

lich

\Lich\ (l[i^]ch), n. [AS. l[=i]c body. See Like, a.] A dead body; a corpse. [Obs.]

If you go to Merriam-Webster's site, here you can get an audio of 'Lich Gate', for an example.