Talk:Archlich

5e
This might need an update. Tomb of Annihilation consistently describes Acererak as an archlich, which is at odds with the noble aspirations described in this article. From the usage, it seems the 5e "archlich" simply means "extremely powerful lich". --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 21:26, July 8, 2018 (UTC)


 * I agree that "'archlich' simply means 'extremely powerful lich'." I think that that is probably the case in earlier editions too. We'll need to put a note at the top of this article about that. Perhaps we should name this to "Archlich (creature)" and have "Archlich" be a disambiguation page that includes all manner of powerful liches that might be called archlich? ~ Lhynard (talk) 23:40, July 8, 2018 (UTC)


 * In 2nd edition, Acererak is a demilich, which in 2E is a more powerful version of a lich that has shed it's body and only keeps it's skull. Archliches there are in general exactly this good version of liches described in the article. I have found a few 2E references using archlich in the sense of very powerful (and evil) lich, though only one indirect one in a Realms source. So I guess splitting into to articles for the good-aligned race and the title is fine. Daranios (talk) 19:59, July 9, 2018 (UTC)