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Vecna v Acererak v Larloch? Who's The Most Powerful Lich?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7777210" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>Vecna and Larloch both had schemes to become gods. Vecna is now a god. Larloch... isn't.</p><p></p><p>Larloch's activities are pretty well confined to the Forgotten Realms. Vecna transcended his Greyhawk origins long ago and now schemes across the multiverse.</p><p></p><p>Vecna has had far more visible impact on the cosmos, including reshaping the planes themselves in "Die Vecna Die!" Ed Greenwood suggests that this is because Vecna is just flashier and noisier, but this is hard to reconcile with the fact that Vecna is literally the god of secrets. Both Larloch and Vecna keep their activities largely in the dark; if we have seen more results out of Vecna, the simplest explanation is that Vecna has in fact produced more results.</p><p></p><p>There is obviously never going to be any definitive answer to who is more powerful, but the available evidence suggests that Vecna is the strongest of the three. (Acererak is far behind the other two in power--no question there--but he makes up for it in style. Any two-bit lich can come up with a nefarious scheme to obtain phenomenal cosmic power by some weird ritual. But creating a device to trap the souls of resurrectees, in order to empower an undead god, apparently for the lulz... now <em>that</em> is a nefarious scheme to be proud of.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 7777210, member: 58197"] Vecna and Larloch both had schemes to become gods. Vecna is now a god. Larloch... isn't. Larloch's activities are pretty well confined to the Forgotten Realms. Vecna transcended his Greyhawk origins long ago and now schemes across the multiverse. Vecna has had far more visible impact on the cosmos, including reshaping the planes themselves in "Die Vecna Die!" Ed Greenwood suggests that this is because Vecna is just flashier and noisier, but this is hard to reconcile with the fact that Vecna is literally the god of secrets. Both Larloch and Vecna keep their activities largely in the dark; if we have seen more results out of Vecna, the simplest explanation is that Vecna has in fact produced more results. There is obviously never going to be any definitive answer to who is more powerful, but the available evidence suggests that Vecna is the strongest of the three. (Acererak is far behind the other two in power--no question there--but he makes up for it in style. Any two-bit lich can come up with a nefarious scheme to obtain phenomenal cosmic power by some weird ritual. But creating a device to trap the souls of resurrectees, in order to empower an undead god, apparently for the lulz... now [i]that[/i] is a nefarious scheme to be proud of.) [/QUOTE]
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