Lich Physiology

Lich Physiology
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Power/Ability to:	Use the traits of Lich.

"My dear Chancellor, I didn’t murder my entire family and use their blood to turn myself into an undead abomination to be told I couldn’t do things."

― Dread Emperor Revenant, A Practical Guide To Evil

The power to use the abilities of a Lich. Variation of Undead Physiology.

Also Called

• Mystic Undead Physiology
• Undead Sorcerer/Magician Physiology

Capabilities

User with this ability either is or can transform into a Lich, undead being resulting of a powerful being such as archmage, hierophant, priest-king, etc., striving for eternal life undergoes an arcane transformation to assure eternal life, binding their intellect to their animated corpse and thereby achieve a form of immortality. Liches are usually cadaverous, their bodies desiccated or even completely skeletal. They are often depicted as holding power over hordes of lesser undead creatures, using them as soldiers and servants.

Some variations of lich are distinguished from other undead by their phylactery - an item of the Lich's choosing into which they imbue their soul, giving them immortality until the phylactery is destroyed.

Applications

• Magic
  • Dark Arts
  • Necromancy
    • Reanimation
    • Undead Manipulation
• Fear Inducement
• Possession
• Undead Physiology
  • Defunct Physiology
  • Semi-Immortality/Immortality
  • Undead Lord Physiology

Variations

• Self-Puppetry
• Skeleton Physiology

Associations

• Mystic Vampire Physiology
• Silah Physiology
• Superior Undead Physiology
• Transcendent Mage Physiology
• Transcendent Undead Physiology

Limitations

• Anti-Magic
• May require a lengthy ritual and/or immense magical power/skill to achieve transformation.
• Destruction of the user's phylactery may destroy their soul, effectively killing them.

Known Users

See Also: Our Liches Are Different.

• Lord Fear (Ace Lightning)
• Liches (AD&D)
  • Archliches
  • Demiliches
• The Lich (Adventure Time)
• Lydia (The Adventure Zone)
• Edward (The Adventure Zone)
• Lup (The Adventure Zone)
• Barry Bluejeans (The Adventure Zone)
• The Horned King (The Chronicles of Prydain/The Black Cauldron)
• Baraggan Luisenbarn (Bleach); via released form
• Liches (Chronicles of Darkness)
  • Tremere liches
• Rasputin (Don Bluth’s Anastasia)
• Skullmaggeden (Double Dragon)
• Liches (Dragon Ball Z: Buu's Fury)
• Lich (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Mannimarco (The Elder Scrolls)
  • Dragon Priests (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)
• Pious Augustus (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem)
• The Night King (Game of Thrones)
• Ossion the Dread (Heroes of Camelot)
• Lord Hades (High School DxD)
• Wiz (Konosuba)
• Lubella Dim (Momodora)
• Lich (Monster Girl Encyclopedia)
• Maleficent (Once Upon A Time)
• Ainz Ooal Gown/Momonga (Overlord)
• Xykon (The Order of the Stick)
• Abracadaver (The Powerpuff Girls)
• Azalin Rex, Darklord of Darkon (Ravenloft)
• Occult Priests (Return to Castle Wolfenstein)
• Koschei the Deathless (Russian Mythology)
• Valeena (Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!)
• Lich (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Liches (Warcraft)
  • Kel'Thuzad
  • The Lich King
• Nagash (Warhammer Fantasy)

Gallery

The Witch of Decay, Lubella (Momodora), is a horned giantess who wants to take over the throne of Karst.

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Lich (Valkyrie Crusade)

The Horned King (The Chronicles of Prydain/The Black Cauldron)

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Lich (Monster Girl Encyclopedia) is depicted as a more stoic and experimental lover than most other monster girls.

The Diabolical, Lich (Adventure Time) is among the most frightening and unforgivable of Finn's enemies.

Ainz Ooal Gown/Momonga (Overlord) the guildmaster of Ainz Ooal Gown, Overlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

Mannimarco (Elder Scrolls)

The Night King (Game of Thrones) is an undead user of magic, using necromancy to raise undead armies and can interact and mark greenseers to know where they are.

Rasputin (Don Bluth’s Anastasia)

Ossion the Dread (Heroes of Camelot)

Wiz (Konosuba)

Nagash (Warhammer Fantasy) Great Necromancer, the Great Betrayer, the Usurper, the Undying King, the Supreme Lord of Undeath or simply He Who Shall Not Be Named.

Abracadaver (Powerpuff Girls) is a Zombie of mystical power.

Pious Augustus (Eternal Darkness) was a Roman centurion who was transformed into a lich by the artifact of the Ancient he chose, granting him tremendous power and the ability to cast the eldritch magic of the Ancient he serves, as well as Mantorok's.

Lord Hades (High School DxD)