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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ketser" data-source="post: 7717462" data-attributes="member: 66805">In 5e demiliches are considered as degraded liches, who have lost both a lot of their power, most of their physical form and often their sanity. Something to note is that 5e demiliches can become liches again, if they manage to "feed" their phylactery.Acererak is of course listed as a sort of exception in the MM, existing as a disembodied consciousness, travelling the planes and using his skull more as a trap to feed his phylactery, rather than than actually inhabiting it. So we can theorize that Acererak can return to "lich form" when he might need it and probably the adventure makes note that Acererak needing to have his full form for whatever reason. In any case it can be explained in the current lore.</blockquote>