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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 7610421" data-attributes="member: 2209">Monster Focus: Liches<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/115994/Monster-Focus-Liches?affiliate_id=17596">Monster Focus: Liches</a>Pathfinder 1eApprentice Lich: Some liches do not gain the full powers of their kind, either as the result of a failed transformation or due to the soul vessel spell. In either case, the magic of these lesser liches slowly wanes over time and unless they can find a way to stabilize the necromantic power that grants them unlife, they eventually crumble to dust. Known as apprentice liches, they are no less deadly, even if they are slowly falling apart.A powerful necromancer just recently attempted to become a lich, but his formulas were flawed and although he did not die, he is now an apprentice lich.Soul Vessel spell.Blackfrost Lich: ?Gloom Lich: As the centuries fade away, some liches begin to learn that their corporeal forms are deteriorating. As they crumble, the lich gains even greater control over what remains.Lich: ?Soul VesselSchool necromancy; Level cleric 8, sorcerer/wizard 8Casting Time 1 minuteComponents V, S, F (gen encrusted phylactery worth 10,000 gp)Range personalTarget youDuration 1 hour/levelThis spell hides a portion of your soul away in a specially prepared phylactery. If you are slain at any point during the duration of this spell, and the phylactery is undamaged, it immediately shatters, releasing a black vapor that solidifies over the next hour to form a new body for you. At the end of this time, you are brought back to life with 1 hit point. You do not take any negative levels as a result of this spell, but any gear or magic items that were on your body are not transferred to your new form, unless of course you retrieve them. If the congealing vapor is disturbed at all during the 1 hour required to form your new body, the spell fails and you remain dead. You can only have on instance of this spell in operation at one time. Any subsequent castings fail. If you are slain by a death effect and your body is animated using create greater undead, the black vapor quickly flows to the undead form, causing you to rise as an apprentice lich, free from the control of the creature that cast create greater undead.</blockquote>

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