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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7283006" data-attributes="member: 19675">A lich could work.&nbsp; As I said elsewhen:And as another poster said then:Perhaps this lich is the ancient patriarch of the wizard’s family, and trains his descendants in magical arts to maintain and increase the family’s power and influence in the world, and through them, HIS power &amp; influence.&nbsp; Or, perhaps to stave off boredom/as part of their personal rivalry, he and another lich have a habit of training operatives to engage in battle by proxy.&nbsp; And they’ve been playing for centuries...In each of those cases, the apprentice- and those like him- become stand-ins, alternative versions of the stereotypical “undead army”.Similarly, but darker, the lich could be grooming young spellcasters to satisfy a ritual he has designed that will return him to the land of the living...by taking over the body- and possibly the identity- of one of the lich’s apprentice wizards.&nbsp; This possession would occur at some future point when the body has been steeped in enough magical energy.&nbsp; In other words, the lich is farming, and his apprentices are his free-range livestock.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7283006, member: 19675"] A lich could work. As I said elsewhen: And as another poster said then: Perhaps [I]this[/I] lich is the ancient patriarch of the wizard’s family, and trains his descendants in magical arts to maintain and increase the family’s power and influence in the world, and through them, HIS power & influence. Or, perhaps to stave off boredom/as part of their personal rivalry, he and another lich have a habit of training operatives to engage in battle by proxy. And they’ve been playing for centuries... In each of those cases, the apprentice- and those like him- become stand-ins, alternative versions of the stereotypical “undead army”. Similarly, but darker, the lich could be grooming young spellcasters to satisfy a ritual he has designed that will return him to the land of the living...by taking over the body- and possibly the identity- of one of the lich’s apprentice wizards. This possession would occur at some future point when the body has been steeped in enough magical energy. In other words, the lich is farming, and his apprentices are his free-range livestock. [/QUOTE]

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