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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tratyn Runewind" data-source="post: 1205042" data-attributes="member: 685">Hello, the monstrous mummy of some ancient king still crowned with untarnished gold but turning to my gaze a visage that more than time or the worm had wasted. Broken swathings flapped about the skeleton legs, and above the crown that was set with sapphires and orange rubies, a black something swayed and nodded horribly; but, for an instant, I did not dream what it was. Then, in its middle, two oblique and scarlet eyes opened and glowed like hellish coals, and two ophidian fangs glittered in an ape-like mouth. A squat, furless, shapeless head on a neck of disproportionate extent leaned unspeakably down and whispered in the mummy 's ear. Then, with one stride, the titanic lich took half the distance between us, and from out the folds of the tattered sere-cloth a gaunt arm arose, and fleshless, taloned fingers laden with glowering gems, reached out and fumbled for my throat...The obligatory lich quote.  Possibly the most famous modern non-gaming usage of the term.  From "The Abominations of Yondo", Clark Ashton Smith, c. 1926.  I will not be driven out of my body... I will not change souls with that bullet-ridden lich in the madhouse!Another famous usage; "The Thing on the Doorstep", H. P. Lovecraft, c. 1933.Hope these help!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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