Lich

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The Sigil of the Lich

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 Hod, the God of Undeath. Hod giften his creations with the Sigil in hopes that they would continue to spread his undeath themselves. The Sigil itself is used as a sort of companion peice to a liches phylactery, binding the soul to an object and using corresponding sigil and corpse as a conduit for their consciousness. due to it's origins in ancient history, the sigil of the lich is found in the darker regions of various 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's power, it's meaning and it's origin.

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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. (resembling the face they had in life, white/grey for pinkies races, dulled colors for non-human/monster races.)

• If you want/have armor on the battlefield Liches wear white skull helmets with the Sigil of the Lich on the helms forehead. (should resemble the skull of your race, Kobolds should have reptilian shaped skulls, Elves should have pointed ears, Goblins should have goblin-like nose and ears, Tieflings should have horns ect.)

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

• All Liches are magic users and often dreesed according to 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.

• Like most magic casters, 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 Garb Requirements 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 claim Lich king title over a unit/kingdom/alliance of realms instead, 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. the title of Lich King does not give you power over any realm/unit/kingdom/alliance, it is simply a title of honor for your dedication to the sport and the Lich community.
• *This is a title of honor, not a right as a lich or a prize as a combatant. If you cannot honor it or commit to it, then unfortunately it is not the title for you.*
• Most importantly, you cannot name yourself Lich King, only your people can.

Known Liches:

Lich King Theron - King 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