Liches in the Concordance of Malqort.
Officially, doctrine holds that liches are impossible. And a violation of religious canon, which holds that creatures should hold one of the three pillars of life: Body, Spirit, or Mind. Lifeless have body, Ghosts have Spirit.
Liches have body, mind, and spirit.
In practice, liches are merely unlikely. And often the most dedicated servants of the faith.
Liches are an emergent phenomenon. When you focus yourself towards a goal within a location charged by Lifeless, you may become a lich.
Occasionally, a researcher will emerge from a cloister with a new research formula, only to discover that their skin has fallen off and they are tied to that formula for forever. Existing so long as it does, and changing as new versions are found.
The Faithful generally do not know this.
The creators of the greatest means of creating Lifeless are liches. They changes as these formulas do, personality and concern changing as these do. Some liches even have version control for there personality constructs, not allowing in changes to formulas until they are sure it'll work.
Sometimes, they split and create two liches from one original soul, essentially as changes are too large to be held together as one spirit.
The lich cannot be destroyed so long as the formula exists, and can recreate the formula if it is lost from knowledge. Because they can write things down.
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"There's two of you now?"
ReplyDelete"I forked."
“And now, we burn the ancient scroll that is the source of your power!”
ReplyDelete“The source of ... look, buddy, I went open-source centuries ago. What are you even thinking?”
Liches are (nearly) unique among undead for having all three of body, mind, and soul. This makes them exceedingly useful. They don't change fast, but when they shift entire civilizations shift. Each Lich has its own rules, and by and large controls its own destiny.
ReplyDeleteThey have agreed on one thing: no manual migrations to the soulbase. That sounds absurd to entities that have ignored their own bodies so long that they slough off all flesh.
In place soulbase migrations are fraught with problems, so much better to do a fresh soulbase installation and migrate the old data... I mean souls...
ReplyDeleteThe early soulbase migrations were manual, of course. As those become fragmented and ... odd ... better infrastructure was created --- by a lich and many priests. A Lich came into existence, who is automatic migrations.
ReplyDeleteAre there lich Scrum masters?
ReplyDeletePaul Edson Priests, luches, etc use a variety of methodologies to build better Lifeless and other methods.
ReplyDeleteIn many ways, a Lich is what happens when there isn't a scrum master and, instead, a reliance on a single powerful individual who sacrifices what makes them human.