Lich race

Race lich

Liches -- mages who refused to die, and now resent the living for their short-sightedness. Dried-up mummies in rich robes, with embers for eyes and magic in every finger.

Dead flesh fears not cold, poison, disease, or dark energy -- the necromancer's favourite element. They parry ordinary weapons: chipping a mummy with iron takes a while. Holy power, though, cuts lich-fabric into ribbons -- a blessing is worse than a blade.

They see through invisibility and by infravision, and protection from good is always upon them. They wield magic professionally -- which is, after all, the very reason they refused death.

The best-known seat is Lich Tower. Liches sometimes set up bases in UnderDark, in the Ruins of Thalos, and other forgotten places.