For some a rare ornate jewel may suffice, others may use seemingly mundane trinkets that hold deep psychological value to the individual. All in all, it's a fun thought exercise and if you want to take this on, then more power to you, but it's tough to see this running smoothly in practice. I’ve only really dealt with it in two cases, one of which was not my creation (the phylactery was split into three parts and hidden throughout the empire). Would it affect the lich at all? Another might be paranoid, so much so that, rather than disposing of their phylactery into the nowhere, they might Purloined Letter it, hiding it in plain sight with a falsified magical aura. My common "Be a dick" move for liches like this is to have them use spells like Earth Glide or anything that lets you go intangible to walk into the heart of a mountain, Disintegrate out a chamber when they're a mile into solid bedrock, and store a bunch of Teleportation scrolls and backup spellbooks in there. There's probably not a good way to track down the phylactery unless the lich knows who took it. What about when he resurrects. Another might be sentimental, refusing to part with it. ©2020 Wizards.
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So if it was whisked away before the lich could react it would be plausible. If you've got the thing that is your one weakness, you want to protect it, right? So the information on how they make their personal phylactery is precious, almost more so than the phylactery itself, which is best hidden in some well-defended storehouse of collected knowledge, copied spellbooks, scrolls, rods, etc. That said, it makes perfect sense for, say, a warlock-based lich to not have any appropriate ways to sense their phylactery if their Patron didn't want them to have one. It could be that he was a wizard powerful and evil enough to actually become a lich, then was Amnesia’d by someone else who has his phylactery to control him (Davy Jones style). If you steel the phylactery and place it in a Bag of Holding, can a Lich find it? I like that comparison of Voldemort and Nigiri, if the dragon egg hatches I'll try keep that relationship in mind. But then your enemies go "poof" and they have found it, no matter how well you've hidden it. I have always treated the phylactery as an object the lich picked as being important. The spell Legend Lore reveals a hint towards this. Your wizard is on edge and your cleric starts to utter a prayer. The lich-making ritual would also (IMO) involve selecting the phylactery and probably sacrificing a bunch of innocent NPCs to power the ritual. They will likely have a contingency to flee, yes, but they must remake their phylactery lest they find themselves on the flensing racks...and a lich has many years to have torn from their soul. Beyond that, phylacteries are expensive and the shattering of them does not outright kill a lich in most cases, but leaves them painfully vulnerable. A smart lich would certainly do everything it could to protect and keep track of its phylactery as a crucial part of their continued existence. If you want the lich o have access to the phylactery for some reason, then they have the ability. More importantly: Every phylactery is unique. In the second, the lich is/will be new and, as such, didn’t have much time to hide his phylactery - assuming the players don’t stop him mid-transformation. Outside of D&D (because real-world lore of what we now call lich has been around a very,very long time) the lich attains their immortality by placing part or all of their soul inside the phylactery so when the body dies the soul does not and the mind returns to the phylactery where the lich can reform their body after a time.
Complete Disintegration The Lich Lord is disintegrated and its phylactery is destroyed. Kel'Thuzad is the corpse of Kel'Thuzad, however his soul is in a phylactery so destroying the body would not destroy him. Site Rules & Guidelines - Please feel free to message a moderator if you have any concerns. my favorite bit of lich lore ever was a thing in Dragon Magazine that suggested a lich might soultrap (I think) the Tarasque into his phylactory. This site works best with JavaScript enabled. Aha! Well the biggest reason is that your lich reforms at their phylactery when slain.
The Lich Ezzat's phylactery can only be destroyed if it is struck by 8 simultaneous Disintegrate spells. You can also have the phylactery be something small, or big, or be a place instead or even a demiplane - the quest then being how to trap them in that demiplane after defeating it.
Would it open to reveal the piece of paper with the spell on it, or would it kill the lich? I've read the 1e and 2e lore as much as I can find, but a few questions remain. While it seems like a fun idea, Liches usually are purposefully "formed" by high level casters in order to achieve more power. Like many things in D&D it is much less "How does it work?" “People believe. That said, vengeance soul trapping is GREAT.
I’d play him as an undead race of a wizard class. If that were the case with a dragon, it would seem to me the souls would fight over control, or the dragon would try to eject the lich soul when it got strong enough. Is he particularly vulnerable while he is coming back to life? Good point regarding locate object. ), and if a lich spends time too far away from their phylactery they start to decay, becoming somewhat weaker and much less mentally stable. This incentivizes engagement with the lore, clever player decisions, and attention toward the narrative in general.
It doesn't state if the body grows over the 1d10 days or if it just appears fully formed after that delay. Neither breaks the lore. Assume the Lich is physically destroyed, and the phylactery is found and destroyed before the Lich manages to fully re-corporate nearby. Liches are inherently super powerful even from the moment of their creation because of what came before them. Thanks! Would a lich instinctively know where or what his phalactory is if the transformation was involuntary? That "Black Ribbon Society" bid is golden! Anyone handle it similarly? Another reason that i came to love is, extortion. They could have AA-style meetings. ©2020 D&D Beyond | All Rights Reserved | Powered by Fandom Games. The lich lets loose a deep and unnerving throat cackle, made all the more unsettling for the fact it doesn't have a throat. Arrogance.
So when I read this, I kind of meshed together a few different characters from pop culture. A lich needs to find a way to stop “I wish I had the lich (Insert name here)‘s phylactery. It sounds like there are multiple ways to become a Lich, perhaps one with a safe phylactery requirement at all times. (If you haven't read it, read "I, Strahd" and see how Strahd reacts to discovering that Azalin is a lich.) Your GM sadly shows you the CR of this encounter is written 'lolno' and tears up your character sheet. 3
Think more about which answer is better for your specific campaign than generating a catch-all answer. I know the process takes a bunch of days (1d10) but is this an animated process or does he just sort of materialize once he's resurrected? My usual rules are that it has to be something of personal significance to the lich (heirlooms, remnants of lost loved ones, etc. Can the phalactory be a living thing, say a normal dragon egg/embryo? I think arrogance is an especially good answer here.
Whether they sense the phylactery, how they recover from death, what happens if X scenario - the answers to these are all your preferences and how you want it to work. Generally the process of obtaining the information necessary to become a lich- specifically the creation of the phylactery- requires the aspiring individual to perform service for the Ossuary Overseers, and a fool will allow themselves to be pressed into service nigh indefinitely by failing to fully negotiate the terms of the agreement. Maruts are horrible at lvl 1! I mean, the Vestige (or whatever the main character is called) from ESO is a Lich. The process for each individual is tailored to them in such a way that even if they wrote down the process for posterity it wouldn't matter; another trying to follow the same method would inevitably fail and become something far less than what they wished to be. In this case, Arthas is the same thing, except that the phylactery is shared with Ner'zhul and thus they have become one. Again, Legend Lore gives a hint towards this. During his mortal life as the warchief of the orcish Horde of Draenor, Ner'zhul commanded a number of orcish warlocks and even some of Gul'dan's death knights.When these wicked sorcerers were captured by Kil'jaeden and the Burning Legion after the destruction of Draenor, they were transformed into twisted … Very differently? There are beings there that oversee this important cosmological procedure, and they are not perfect, but nor are they stupid.
Another player managed to find the dragon egg in question, and it is quite funny watching it all play out. From the answers above it seems that most are in agreement that yes it would be hard and unlikely, but it is in the realm of possibility. I know secure demiplanes are pretty common, but that can present an insurmountable challenge to some weaker parties and a non-obstacle to more powerful ones, so I also know it's pretty common to hide the phylactery relatively near the lich themself for the sake of a better adventure. The reason the phylactery is easy to find plays into the flaws of the villain. ©2020 Wizards. Every few hundred years, the overseer of the bank would swap hands, and part of the responsibilities of membership into this “lich fraternity” was that, when it was your turn, you would stand watch over the phylacteries. Do any rules or lore exist to say this combination would or would not function? I seem to recall a spell like that. Certain higher level spells would be able to locate it regardless of its location I believe, so we’ll stick to excuses for lower level parties. It's your call. Does a Lich Know Where His Phylactery is? Divination Magic.
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