Dracolich

The process of becoming a dracolich was discovered by Sammaster the mad after re-translating the famous tome The Chronicle of Things to Come by the prophet Maglas.

The first subject of this process was the great red wyrm Shargrailar in the Year of Queen's Tears (902 DR). Since then, Sammaster and the Cult of the Dragon have created many more, only ten of which (that are still alive) have been documented, though doubtless many others exist.

A dracolich has the strange ability to inhabit the body of any reptilian corpse upon death, though they are at their most powerful when inhabiting the corpse of a dragon. Also, like other types of lich, a dracolich is truly annihilated when its phylactery is destroyed.