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The Sigil of the Lich

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Lore

A dead body given life again by dark powers. Often such a creature is someone of high rank and great power striving for eternal life through the use of dark forces to bind their consciousness to various phylactery and thereby achieve a form of immortality. Unlike zombies, which are often depicted as mindless, part of a hivemind or under the control of another, a lich retains independent thought and is as intelligent as it was prior to its transformation. Liches are always powerful magic users and are often created through various schools of magic such as necromancy, hexcraft, black magic, Vooo Doo ect. Liches use these Magiks to access the Astral Plane, a cold and desolate void where Geist travel from the Material plane of the living to whatever afterlife awaits them. Through the Astral Plane liches can bind Geist to various corses creating undead hordes to do their bidding.

The Sigil of the Lich

The Sigil of the Lich is a ancient glyph worn by all who claim the title of lich. The lemniscate Represents a Lich's desire to be infinite lifeforms, roaming for all eternity neither living or dead, knowing that every friend you make and everyone you ever loved will die before you do, and accepting you will see civilizations rise and fall. The eye represents a liches intellect and a liche's ability to stare at the void of death itself. The Star Represents the Astral Plane and a liches ability to tap into it's cosmic energies that empower their spellcraft. The Sigil itself was created by the very embodiment of death itself, rumored to have been given to a mortal who wished to return his fallen love to the Material Plane. The Sigil itself is used as a sort of companion peice to a liches phylacter, binding the soul inside to the body marked by the corresponding sigil. due to it's nature in ancient history, the sigil of the lich is found in all schools of magic. So while some liches began their origins in a castle under the training of a powerful warlock, and some on small island villages under the instruction of a witch doctor, all Liches know of the Sigil it's power, it's meaning and it's origin.

Requirements

A lich empowering a phylactery with their essence.

Garb Requirements:

• phylactery: Items of the lich's choosing into which they imbue their soul, giving them immortality until the phylactery is destroyed.

• Liches are often decayed and wear more skeletal undead facepaint.

• Liches are known to carry around a staff. often covered with artifacts, gemstones, runes and bones.

• All Liches are magic users and this is shown through their school of magic such as necromancy, Arcane, Abyssal, Eldrich, Vooo Doo ect.

• All Liches carry a dark grimoire through which their spells and studies can be documented.

• Liches often wear many bones, shrunken heads, teeth and other dead things in their garb.

• Liches like most magic users, liches much wear a spell component pouch in order to spellcast. Their pouch is marked with the Sigil of the Lich.

• all liches bare the Sigil of the Lich somewhere on their garb or painted on their body.

Lich King/Queen Requirements:

• lead or found a unit of at least 10 men.
• lead or found an active Belegarth/Dagorhir legal realm.
• Adhere to ALL required physical traits at events.
• have active attendence at practices and events.
• lich kings cannot hold official title of lich king over more than one realm at a time. This is not to say you cannot lead more than one realm, this only means your official title would just read "Lich King of *your main realm*". You may also claim Lich king title over a unit/kingdom/alliance of realms, however this is entirely up to that group's leadership if they will allow that Lich King to claim Kinghood within their group. two Lich Kings can not hold soverign rule over the same realms/kingdoms/alliances/units at the one time. Title of Lich king is held until character death or resignation from the title.

Known Liches:

Lich King Theron - King of the ancient kingdom of Fortriu, Theron is a Tiefling born in the portside town of Rubacava located in Blackfish Bay. To date he is the oldest "living" tiefling (and possibly the first), while he is not the first lich, he is among the first liches to exist, and eventually moved on to become the first Lich King. Theron is best known as leader to the Black Tempest Armada, a ruthless band of Pirates comprised of mostly undead and other various monsters.

Malazael

Blackwolfe - Lich King of Sword Coast

Also See:

Alchemical Liches