Ritual to become a Lich

[sithramir]

Hey i'm doing a write up of the ritual being used for my character to start his transformation into a lich. I have split the template into levels similar to Monte Cook or the new WotC board ideas so only gain 1 lvl of it.

Could you guys throw me some ideas to help it out? I want it to be real flavorful and such with lots of description in it. Also any books that have some stuff in it to take ideas from would be good. I recall the necromancer book from someone having stuff so i'll forage through my books and look there but any ideas would be appreciated!

Background is i'm an old war wizard who'a actually the father of Caladnei who has lost his wife and decided to take up retirement to help aid in preventing the drow raids that are happening. He's sickly and a bit craved deciding becoming an arch-lich will allow him to continue his research. He worships mystra.

Thanks people!

 

[Alzrius]

Well, the ritual itself (detailed in Encyclopedia Magica vol. 4) entails drinking several deadly poisons at once, along with a liquified heart from a sentient humanoid, no more than six hours dead, etc.

Making the lich template into levels means that you'll have to stretch the ritual out to have it be a gradual process instead of being done all at once. I'd recommend he enchant a few of those poisons with some of the necessary spells and drink them. That should be a good "base idea" to build on.

 

[Epametheus]

Doh. We need to come with a non-evil way for it to work?

The ritual needs to replace the character's positive life energy with negative energy -- in essence, to successfully commit suicide without actually dying.

Perhaps you need to distill the energy from captured/destroyed undead creatures, if not directly from the NE Plane itself.

The dying without dying bit should be the first step. Perhaps the only thing the 1st level of Lich does is give you the Undead type? You're beyond death's reach then, but not truly drawing power from transcending mortal nature yet.

A potion has always seemed to be a classic bit -- a nice blend of hemlock, spectre dust, vampire blood, ghoul bone powder, and a hefty infusion of negative energy (yes, part of the tradition is that if you botch the potion, you simply die horribly). You also need to prepare a phylactery for your soul -- a modified soul trap? Something a little weirder?

 

[sithramir]

Well i've done a write up for the DM and sent it to him for the first part... It included my drinking a potion and sacrificing an animal and then lying on an altar with my phylactery on a pedestal above me. It added a lot of other flavor affects like light coming down and engulfing me and leaving a mystra like star effect and me dying in an agonizing way... Here's a link to the arch-lich template i posted a long time ago that i'm using.

The first lvl gives me the undead type and immunities, a little natural armor, a negative energy touch (1d8+5), the cha, ,wis, and int bonus's from the template, and the HD to d12's.

Anyn other ideas of what happens to do each of the next rituals would be nicec... I'd post what i wrote up so far other than i'm now at home for thanksgiving and don't have it here.

https://cms.psu.edu/AngelUploads/Files/nxm205/Arch-lich template.doc

 

[Necropolis]

Hi

Soon there will be a new book on liches that will be the best for you .

It's called : the lords of the night : Liches

From bottled imp games

http://bottledimpgames.com/Downloads.htm

you can download some previews from their download section to see and learn some ore things about it

In your case i think this book will be great because it's not about normal liches, those liches are very special, you can choose from 7 new liches types and 5 states and they have really cool powers.

You can buy the book now.

From what i have seen and heard it's going to be the best liches book ever .

 

[Darklone]

Rituals & Relics I had such a thingie. Liked it, used it.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

The ritual for becoming a lich is also in the D&D: Kingdoms of Kalamar "Villain Design Handbook," along with rituals for becoming a powerful self-willed wraith, ghoul, mummy, reliqus (type of powerful skeleton), vampire, wight and zombie.

 

[grodog]

If you have a copy of the Dragon Archive CD Rom, check out "Blueprint for a Lich" by Len Lakofka in The Dragon 26. Good stuff