Lich

Liches are an almost universally evil form of undead spellcaster of great power, usually wizards, but they can also be sorcerers or clerics. They are feared by mortal beings for their malign magic, their intelligence and their willingness to embrace undeath for a chance to live forever (or rather, exist forever). Because liches have eternal longevity they often use this time to form schemes that take decades to develop, sometimes preferring to outlive a foe instead of confront it, and as such most liches live in secluded areas of Toril where they are content with furthering whatever research or plots they have in motion.

Appearance
Liches are generally gaunt and skeletal with withered flesh stretched tight across horribly visible bones, but can vary greatly in appearance depending on their age (some appear as skeletons dressed in regal finery, yet others may appear to be nothing more than lepers). Bright pinpoints of crimson light burn in the empty sockets of those whose eyes have been destroyed or otherwise lost or are so old they have simply rotted away. The are often clad in dark, tattered robes. When moving, they seem to gliding as if floating on water.

.. He went by the name of Archreise Bloodhammer (Ar-ch-rise) he was a Duergar. he was abandoned on the surface. good thing he had built up an immunity to sun light. most durgar are wounded by sun light. he still didn’t like it and it made him uncomfortable and irritated. He was kin to the dwarves so he wasn’t so tall. he had grey skin and white eyes with a significantly large red tattoo across his face marking him as a traitor. Across his back was a large iron crossbow. He had to go some where so he headed to the great dale. Ruled by humans the dale is not a pleasant place for a Durgar. humans are known to discriminate against beings from the underdark. He traveled for a while before he was taken by surprise. He noticed a large pike with four significantly large spikes off the blade making it look almost scythe like but without the curve. mid air the pike broke and one spike tore off and became a arrow. This same thing happened three more times and it made 5 arrows flying at him. Archreise took out his crossbow and dropped down on the ground. he took aim noticed a faint shadow of a man running, through his scope took one shot and it clashed with the arrow. He took the cross bow and started dismantling it taking the bow off the stock then taking the bow apart into 2 blades then reorganizing the parts into a sword then took the stock and loaded it with ink bombs. Ink bombs are bombs made of tar whiskey and gun powder covered in flint caught by a stone on the stock. So he stepped back lunged at an arrow chopped it in half and did a flip on his way down. Now Archreise was much lighter on his feet then others of his kind because when his father was young he had disgraced a witch doctors daughter and the witchdoctor punished him by making his son lighter faster and able to jump higher now we see that as a blessing not a curse but in durgar culture a durgar is suposto be strong hard and able to hold there ground. He took a few more looked around then sprinted at a wall ran up the wall darted off and took out another arrow with the sword. The last one was coming straight for his head he was looking at the arrow and in behind it he saw a woman dressed completely in white and gold with 8 conspicuous rings and right before the arrow hit his head she stuck her hammer in front  of  the way and destroyed the arrow. the woman took the destroyed arrow and bent the metal and then took her helmet off. She had jet black hair with white streaks in it but not grey she did not look old at all she had a kind look to her yet she didn’t look as if she couldn’t fight she had gold and white armor and what looked like a staff except a hammer at the top. Archreise thought that she was quite a show off thou he found her attractive but he was to proud to admit it. What is your name said archreise. talismah what is your name?? my name is archreise bloodhammer son of oahrnahk malikhastira bloodhammer, how did you get to me so quickly??? My rings each let me do certain special things like as long as the person sees me I can be there if im needed but I need to be in sight range. Where did you get them ??? I made them im a black smith. how well do you hold up in battle. I don’t know that’s for you to decide. Talismah and archreise headed for great dale.

As a child talismah had no parents and lived with her uncle who was a black smith. She had to learn to be hard and strong. she went to fight with the boys everyday after lessons. She learned how to fight. Her and her brother once had to defend their home village from a rampage. she was 15 and her brother was 23. They were in an army of 500 by the end of the battle they were the only ones left by the end of the battle. Her brothers name is xade. He has buzzed blonde hair with sideburns and a small pach on his chin he has one  blue eye and one brown eye a strong beak like nose. xade asked to be a chosen for bane. His wish was granted but what xade didn’t know was that bane was going to let him be a chosen for a year and then kill him off so talismah came in and asked that xade could live until he dies of old age and when he dies bane can have his soul. if he dies in a noble battle he pass normally. What bane didn’t know was that xade had an amulet that lets him stop getting older once he has turned 25. Once bane agreed he did all in the negotiation. Once he realized he had been tricked he took xade back and put him in banes domain to fight for 3 years. Archreise and talismah went to the black smith shop. Archreise said I only know how to use a crossbow and I can barely handle a blade. Well I can only use a hammer, but my brother is strong with a blade. Where is your brother. That’s not relevant, il get started on making you some weapons. Meanwhile Middlemine trollybadger was wondering around the forest looking for a certain kind of mushroom for his potion. No one really knows what middlemine actually looked like when he was born all we know is that sometime he got what he calls a sprinkle touch witch lets him by touch mimic whoever he pleases but he has an amazingly extraordinary talent for magic. he always caries a small bag for his library the bag looks as if It could Carrie about 6 books yet he carries his library which has about 647 books in it. Sprinkle touch lets him trade appearances with someone he touches witch also lets them trade in racial advantages and weaknesses. for now he appeared to be a giant yet with extremely blue eyes with a fat nose and a small mark on his left jaw and his hair was red brown it was long and curly.

The Lich's Phylactery
The process of achieving lichdom requires that the spellcaster constructs a powerful magical artifact, a phylactery, in which the lich will store its life essence; as long as this phylactery is unharmed, the lich is immortal and will attempt to reassemble if it is ever vanquished (this happens within 10 days after its apparent destruction). It does not, however, grant any of the normal benefits of a phylactery until it is fully completed. For these reasons, liches take great care in protecting their phylactery from harm, employing decoys, traps and other means.

The most common physical form for a phylactery is a sealed metal box containing strips of parchment on which magical phrases have been transcribed. Other forms of phylacteries exist, often a small or tiny sized trinkets such as rings, amulets, or similar items. It can also take other shapes if the lich expends more gold and experience to make such alterations.

The phylactery is crafted in three stages, and the lich transfers a bit more of its life force to it at each stage. Crafting the phylactery requires the Craft Wondrous Item feat. In addition to this, the material and experience costs of the phylactery are 120,000 gp and 4,800 XP.

Types of Liches

 * Alhoon : An alhoon is an illithid lich.
 * Archlich : While the overwhelming majority of liches are evil, an archlich is not. One such good lich is Lady Alathene Moonstar of Waterdeep. Lady Alathene is devoted to hunting down her brother Lord Vanrak who has become a murderous undead champion of evil. Archliches are able to memorize spells through intuitive nature and do not need spellbooks; they also remain in their form for eternity. An elven archlich is called a Baelnorn. They do not use phylacteries as their undeath is gifted to them by the Seldarine.
 * Banelich : Clerics of Bane transformed into undead servants by the God of Tyranny. As baneliches grow older, their powers increase as well until they are as powerful as any other lich.
 * Baelnorn : Elven Liches who become undead to become backbones of their family. They are sources of magic, wise council and guardianship.
 * Demilich : This advanced form is achieved when a lich feels it cannot learn any more in its present state and seeks other avenues to attain knowledge. It might do so by using astral projection to travel to other planes of existence.
 * Dracolich : A dracolich is a dragon whom has achieved lichdom. The process required to do this was discovered by Sammaster, former chosen of Mystra.