Exploring Dungeons and Dragons: Liches
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Liches, or as my party called the lich employing us, "Rich Uncle Skeleton."
So Ainz Ooal Gown then?
"Shit, we don't have enough money for that magic sword, can I call Rich Uncle Skeleton on the sending stone?"
I would love to hear more about this campaign! :-)
@@bingo784 ,ALL HAIL THE SUPREME ONE!
@@bingo784 Skeleton daddy
Not to be confused with lichen, which is a lot less dangerous.
That's what it WANTS you to think..
or witches,....or bitches...(thou possibly one and the same, in some cases
Coffin Cheater LMFAO nice one
Well living in a Pacific Northwestern rainforest I can tell you otherwise, my good man.
I slipped on some once and fell about 50-60 feet down a cliff. Now sure, most likely my own fault for not looking but I am pretty sure it tripped me!
@@jaymevosburgh3660 Liches don't meet all that often, so that's pretty rare.
You make the best videos! Never stop! 💜
Please do Orcs next
Liches are one of my favorite mythical creatures
Do more like dis, dis 👍
I'm suprised you didn't touch on the Dracolich
Someone didn’t watch the full video.
You are alone child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people.
These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army. And we will sail to a billion worlds.
We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end.
And I have come for you, Finn.
"A lich should never be a small or routine encounter" Tell that to Bio Ware. In Baldur's Gate 2 you kill probably about 20 liches, including 2 demi liches :D
Ah, Bioware and their subverting of expectations a la 2020's "The Invisible Man" and Knives Out (which, ironically, is directed by Rian Johnson himself).
Also tell that to Bethesda, in skyrim you kill a bunch of dragon priests and they are technically litches
@@thecoolcario9048 well to be fair in skyrim you are pretty much the chosen one not just some adventurer and the dragon priests are some of the harder boss fights
@@asparagoosagus5954 plus dragon preists and liches are different in there elder scrolls. dragon preists draw power from the draugr, who you murder before fighting them
Those b*stards with their "I'm gonna' f*ck you up" Timestop spell. I still remember them.
A few interesting points to add: Everyone who's ever read Harry Potter is already familiar with liches, as Voldemort is an excellent example of one, he just had multiple phylacteries.
There's actually a naturally good kind of elven lich called a Baelnorn, these are highly honoured, as they sacrifice their link to Arvandor (Elf heaven) to eternally watch over the people.
The reason so few liches are good, is mainly because the established methods require the sacrifice of human souls to maintain the phylactery, not a very saintly activity.
a question what if a lich have more than one valekerin or somethings like that. just like voldemorth
A "Good Lich" is usually Lawful Nuetral with a strong moral code, or is lawful good with an "ends justify the means" mentality. The problem is that, argueably, those are both too morally ambiguous for their supposedly good allignment. Most people wouldn't say that they are of a good allignment. It is really that to be a good Lich is a relative term, not a measure of kindness and altruistic intentions.
@@mythdragia5866 Dunno if it's possible in D&D with the currently established methods. But most likely it'd be pretty much like with Voldemort. You'd have to destroy every phylactery in turn to permanently kill them. And presumably a portion of their power would be lost each time as another part of their soul is sucked into the afterlife.
@@bodaciouschad True, as such the only way a lich could be considered a "good person" with no "but's" is if they're either a baelnorn or found a way to maintain lichdom without the sacrifice of human souls.
Plus, there was that story about Astoshan, the grey necromancer who was always very diplomatic about his craft, even asking good people for permission before raising their corpses.
And when he became a lich, he used diplomatic ties with nearby cities to have them send death-row inmates to fuel his phylactery. He's probably as close as you get to a "good" lich with the standard methods.
The Random Dude there is the Dry lich from the sandstorm 3.5 supplement that makes 6 phylactry out of jars and have them hidden around dessert areas.
I request that you get started on Dracoliches.
I, as well, would like to see him get started on Dracoliches
“Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing.
And before there was nothing...
there were monsters.”
Only legends will know where this originates
And you can see orgalorg in the corner
"Aren't you cold, Finn?
"NO, I'M NOT! I'VE GOT A SWEATER ON!
"YOU ARE A JOKE TO ME!
The Lich from AT is actually a pretty bad representation of an actual Lich. A great villain pound for pound just not a Lich.
I read this in the voice of Anthony Hopkins, though the actual wording was something about dark elves.
Liches are such a cool concept and are UNDERRATED
Do you wanna know more UNDER-UNDERRATED concept?, a necromancer / lich which is actually good, and defends /protects Life-death cycle. Maybe a necro-druid; like "life means nothing without death and death cant exist without life" style lich. A druid Lich......
edit 1: like in diablo series (necromancers).
@@onatyungul872 I'm always annoyed that Necromancers are portrayed as purely evil. Your ideas are good, personally I always liked the idea for a Necromancer seeing their art less as "creating mindless servants" and more "giving something that died a second life", maybe willingly ignoring that simple undead are in fact just puppets. Or someone who loves life and living things so much and/or is so afraid of death and losing loved ones that they use necromancy if traditional medicine or magical healing doesn't work anymore.
But Voldemort
I remember the painting of a Lich by Keith Thompson. It has a really nice story
Liches are overrated. Using the clone spell is way better.
What if a smart enough Lich launched their phylactery on trajectory that sent it out of the solar system? Sure you can try and chase down that phylactery that's been accelerating (or drifting) for 10, 20, 100 years. How ever you will be looking for a very long time.
A gamma ray would probably destroy it
@@Avannior just encase it in lead
It would most likely bump into the crystal sphere or get into the phlogiston.
Odds are it'll fall into a black hole on its own.
@@bingo784 true, but given the speed it would likely be going that could take a few million years to happen.
Ah a video on AInz Ooal Gown lol
*Yes but actually no*
He transcended to *“Elder Rich”* and then *“OverLord”* which is far more stronger and awesome-er??
He's a skeleton not a lich
@@ofthecaribbean He's basically the superman if liches they even say it in the manga and light novel
Lord Grim And more handsome
@@zawwin1846
Skeletor is the most handsome
Or even a large amulet eh?, so dr bright is technically a lich huh?
That makes a lot of sense
Oh fu-
No no he’s gotta point
Bruh ya got some point there
Damn I never thought of it that way 😶
Two of my favorite liches are Mannimarco from the Elder Scrolls. And Fistandantilus from the Dragonlance Chronicles.
Don’t forget the most famous Lich of all: Jesus Christ.
And his phylactery is the cross. *Every* cross made to be a Christian cross is one of his phylacteries.
No
in the homebrew d&d campaign i run the main villain is a Lich called Votic Deathhand(i know not the most creative name) he is very interesting to run he is conniving intelligent, and always plans ahead of his enemies i cant wait to see how the players finally defeat him as a DM i give my players many options for how to deal with encounters.
A liches lair is called a Doom
Mamonga and Naggash are my favorite lich Kings.. though neither are from dnd..
It's Master Ainz Ooal Gown to you, peasant!
I thought Overlord's mmo leans heaviliy on dnd universe
There aren't many lich KINGS in dnd they're usually not interested in controlling lands/ territories
Except Szass Tam.
@@naufalap absolutely it does as the original story was conceived because the author was a GM who's friends were to busy to make their gaming sessions, so he used his campaign ideas to populate the story of Overlord instead.
Ainz is an overlord, a evolution past skeleton mage and elder lich. An new concept altogether (I presume) that is why the name of the campa... ops... anime.
Love the artwork you used! Great vid, Mangg. Reminds me of the movie Anastasia.
Why is this comment 2 days ago when it came out a minute ago
@@ItsFeNox23 yeah, i see that to, what dark magic is this
Damn time traveler
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Definitely some kind of super powers.
The only thing I know about Liches are from that dude from Adventure Time. Time to learn more!
One of the best villains in the show.
@@robby7499 Agreed
The Antithesis of Life
Literally scared the frick out of me during his introduction
I know very little about Adventure Time but have seen a few scenes with the Lich. I feel he isn't much of a D&D esc Lich I would liken him to more a powerful demigod of undeath.
Man, I swear. Some times I feel like a real *Lich.*
Would that make the god emporer a lich?
the goodest Lich of all
I used to see nightmares about Lich from Adventure time
I was so obsessed that my mc skin or usernames were all Lich to decrease my fear.
İt was like worshipping, if I spread the name it would stay away. But it got worse in 7th grade. I couldnt sleep and then started to learn about masons, illuminati and stuff. Even tho many of thr things I "learned" were only depressive conspiracy theories, I was dumb enough to believe all of them on that times. After a while I was so obsessed that I was staring blankly at the roof thinking about how meaningless the life was for hours. And then night comes. You have to hide your fear. So I was pretending to be asleep at the couch so my parents would leave me alone, but since I didnt have phone on that age I read books. Even if boring, it was the only relaxation at night to hear my broken watch do that beep sound every hour until morning. And then I "wake up" half asleep and go to school. The day repeats itself and I watch Adventure Time around 11:30 PM. I stare at the TV with fear in my heart, with remote control on my hand, ready to change the channel to songs for babies channel if a Lich related episodeappears. İf it does, 1) My body freezes like a sleep paralyss. I can watch TV, but cant close my eyes. I suffer with fear until the end of the episode and then lay on the ground crying inside (because if I cry loud my parents will see how I get scared and wont allow my only entertainment in the evenings to forget about hard lessons and my not very fond "friends" for at least a few hours: TV. Or more specificely, Cartoon Network. On those times, most of all legendary cartoons were still going. Regular show, flapjack, old true Ben10, AT, Steven Universe, Clarence, Uncle Grandpa etc.)2) I run to living room screaming, pretending I saw a cockroach or a spider or something. Or it just doesnt appear and I enjoy my 15 minute episode without a risk of pissing on my pants until the next episodr comes up and my deadly await starts again until the 4th episode comes. (İt was 4 eps in a row on that times) I loved talking about cartoons to my one and only friend at school, Efe. I only used to go to his home. Had no other close friends. Before he stopped contacted me and ignored my affection. I just wanted to talk about my problem I had that started when I was in primary school until 8th grade where I had to prepare for highschool exam so didnt have much time for TV. I am currently 9th grade. I am kinda ashamed I had such experience but its always better to have a story to tell.
Adventure Time takes a lot of notes from D and D. Given what Liches are like there, it's not surprising that the Lich is the most evil and terrifying character in the show
@@redjirachi1 they didnt use the litch enough man, hes supposed to be super powerful in the lore but gets killed by a sweater and a manchild witch kinda sums up how they utilized him lol. He was still pretty cool though
DronkusDonkus yeah but the use sparingly help make his appearance all the more iconic
Like he is the a lovecraftian monster that had to be beaten outside the heroes norm means
@@redjirachi1 its not d and d its d&d
@@dronkusdonkus9190 he returned 5 times tho
Overlord is an amazing light novel series with the protagonist being a litch, highly reccomend it. It also has an anime and a manga adaptation, if you're interested.
The game yggdrasil in the anime is based on dungeons and dragons as well
Love that Anime.
You may not have the dulcet tones of Sir Patrick Stuart but I am at the point where I can't get through "The Backstreet Boys Tour" without some of your channel. SCP #1, DND #2.
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He is an Overlord bud, a much more higher form of undead being
Dont confuse an overlord with an lich.
I was a withering old priest one time that got enstage cancer in the middle of my city. So I did the most reasonable thing and used the soul of a child to have myself and my party members cast the spell eternal apotheosis on my dying body to transform into a lich. Good times, goooood times.
Really so many images from magic the gathering ....and none from Kel ' Thuzad from Warcraft. ....😕
I love how half the images are from magic: the gathering. D&D and MTG are both under the same company now so I guess it doesn't matter.
Lets see a video on either Kuo-Toa or Sahaugin; two of my favorite loony fish people
Wait.A precious object shuch as an AMULET!Containing a PERSONS SOUL.That can INHABIT OTHER BODYS!ermmmmm....*cough*dr bright*cough*
I feel like you could just put a phalactory in a random forest and no one would find it except for someone who goes hiking who would keep it safe by keeping it in their attic
Fav youtuber man, don't be afraid to keep expanding your content, you've got me into both SCP and Warhammer 40k, so keep it up xxxxxxx
Papa series, is Dr. Bright a lich?
Sooooo...Rowling should've just used the much cooler word "phylactery," instead of making up a word that sounds stupid, like "horcrux?"
the one used in HP is a budget version that can be employed on mass but far easyer to detect and destroy aswell as much more ineffective at recontruction/reanimateing the corpse, making it pretty usless.
So horcruxes are pretty similar to phylacteries.
Yeah. Wouldn't surprise me if that's where J.K. Rowling got I
The idea for it. Kinda cool, really.
Yes and no. A horcruxe splits the soul into pieces and the user doesn’t die to create it. A phylactery contains an entire soul and the user has to die to create it. She obviously borrowed from the idea though.
@@snorgonofborkkad
That's why I said that it is similar.
@@kari7403
Yes, such reimagines are nice.
Yes I glad someone else made the connection. Also He commanded an army of evil and sometimes undead supernatural creatures. Voldemort was very much a lich.
Couldn't a lich, technically, get the help of a wizard to create a pocket dimension to store the phylactery--and then kill the wizard, so now there is literally no way to get to said pocked dimension? Asking for...research purposes.
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Me: *happiness noise*
literally same
me too
But then a sigh when it's not SCP video 😪
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First time I played DND me and my group got jumped by a liche. We only survived by throwing all our loot at it distracting it 😂
The Litch: it's free realestate
I mean... put yourself in his shoes.
Here you are, an all powerful, undead entity. One day you decide to go out for a stroll and come across a group of would-be vandals. You think, how fortunate! Normally these types show up unannounced and more importantly, uninvited... on this day you happen to some across the thieves before they break into your stronghold. So in a fit of excitement and rage you burst forth to sunder the vandals only to have them panic, strip down, throw all of their belongings at you and run screaming into the night naked as the day they were born.
I'd be pretty distracted by that entire scenario too...
@@zachb2046 then the lich tries it again... with a level 20 party
What the hell was that lich, a crow?
11:12 Wait, *WHAT?!*
"Only two things matter: Force in as great a concentration as you can manage, and style. And in a pinch, style can slide."
-Xykon, Order of the Stick
“You are strong child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end.” - the lich (adventure time)
Finally!!! My favorite character/creature from D&D
Wow, didn't know you were also making D&D related videos.
LOOK ON HIS PAGE HES GOT QUITE A FEW TOPICS. sorry for caps,
My favourite lich is Wiz from Konosuba
Same
if a lich is basically a wizard that has extended his or her life with magic, then the revered ones in the Church of Azuth are essentially liches, even if they are using forbidden epic glyphs to do this.
I'm kinda surprised you didn't talk about Baelnorn, even if they are outdated.
the term ''lich'' isn't from old English, it's far more older, it's from ancient Scandinavian at the time when there was no Engles (old English people) in Britain, they were located in the south-west coast of Denmark to be more precise. In Scandinavia the lich term ''lich'' was used to designate a shadowy or sometimes dark humanoid shape presence in a burial ground area which could be seen or felt during the night, frequency of the sighting was most likely extremely rare according to the very few writing on that matter. (Actually the written document came much later and were translation from skald poetry/song).
Litches are tailor made to be the big bads of a campaign. They're highly intelligent, incredibly powerful, incredibly evil and, most of all, thanks to their phylactery you can easily have them be recurring threats without worrying about the adventurers killing him too early (something some DM's encounter as a problem for their campagns).
Yes, they're a bit EASY (I think its really common to have a litch be the main antagonist) but as they say it's a classic for a reason. Plus an evil undead wiard is always cooler than a normal evil wizard.
I’m planning out a campaign with a sort of murder-mystery style, and the leading suspect is a necromancer and known criminal who supposedly underwent a transformation into a lich right before the murders started. The murders are extremely violent, with the bodies being diced up right after the killing, and no trace of the murderer. PLOT TWIST the necromancer actually failed the ritual and turned into a bone claw, which bonded with a small time lackey for a BBEG in an upcoming campaign, who went insane and became a serious necromancer. The Boneclaw is performing the murders while the necromancer has quietly set himself up as the king of the criminal underworld.
Lich: You can't kill me, without destroying my phylactery!
Player: You can't kill me, without destroying my half dozen clones!
First time I've caught one of these late-night uploads. My life is truly complete now.
Yess, my type of character build
If he doesnt say "Liches be crazy" at least once.......
Edit: My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Nice vid anyways ;-;
@5:45 Holy fuck. Hastur?! IT'S THE YELLOW SIGN!!
Broadly speaking in DnD there are 3 types of lich
If you do it yourself with no help, you'll be a lich whose body becomes virtually indestructible. You'll always try and possess your own body in that case, and creating a spare body is a huge chore.
If you ask for help you'll be a lich without a set body. Anytime you're destroyed your body is destroyed, but you will reform within a few feet of your phylactory with a brand new bod.
Finally if you're specifically an elf, and have a really good reason to break the cycle of elven reincarnation and stay on the material plane, the elven gods can turn you into a baelnorn, which is basically the first kind of lich but with the added benefit of not needing to consume souls to maintain your power. This basically never happens though, because most elves think this is way worse than death, which makes sense when you endlessly reincarnate and get to chill in heaven between lives .
Clone is a spell that is a lot more practical than Lichdom.
Dang I love your videos they are informative and entertaining
*Lady Lich:* "You wish you could be as powerful as me!
*Me:* "Lich, please! As if."
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Is it just me, or is the warhammer 40k emperor a lich?
Please do one of these on mind flayers! I'm actually running a campaign right now where the PC's have NO idea that the BBEG is a flayer nest ruled by an elder brain. Then again, they're still very early on in the campaign, so they haven't gotten any hints yet, but they're about to get a big one after they leave the next town!
Having watched a different video on Dracoliches, they seem like a right bundle of fun.
The process is of being risen into Lichdom for a Dracolich is far more complex, and requires a great deal of trust on the Dragon's behalf, if I recall.
He said ritual. I heard lich-ual. XO
My favorite lich is Skeletor
Could it be that red orb in Ainz Oaol Gown's lower half is a phylacteri?
Noone's answered. I'll spoil you then :
It's a weapon.
Overlord Liches have no phylactery.
While you may think there are no drawbacks to becoming an immortal undead creature with no weaknesses to diseases or need to sleep, there is one major drawback:
You cannot drink coffee.
What if i dont like coffe so
Dying is just a minor setback.
The Man-emperor never died!
Indeed
Reminds me of captin ginyu how he can snach your body and switch souls with some kind of magic
TOKUSENTAI!!! TOKUSENTAI!!! TOKUSENTAI!!!
Such a cheap OP power.
I'm having coffee with the lich
You wouldn't understand
You're too youuuuuuung
An illusion lich sounds fun.
Liches in my fantasy world are creatures of Hell that traded their souls for power and immortality and serve each of the 13 Devils. There’s only 13 liches though, so one per devil.
For example, my lich Mongoriath serves the devil Andromalius. He’s also the oldest and most powerful lich of all 13 of them.
Get started on Dracoliches, GET STARTED ON DRACOLICHES!!!
Wiz is best Lich
Yes
High elves make actual good liches theyre called Baelnorn. I think they’re like Druidic liches.
I always love D&D content by this channel. Top tier, man! Would love to see more
If Lich 1 makes his phylactery lich 2 and lich 2 makes his phylactery lich 1 would killing one kill both or neither
I don’t understand why you want to be a lich just use the clone spell.
As I recall, the clone spell doesn't reverse aging so you'll still eventually run out of time. Same with true resurrection and its ilk - it doesn't bring you back if you age out.
If you want immortality without undeath, then I'd recommend looking into "reincarnate". That one *does* de-age you, though it has other side effects that may or may not be considered beneficial.
I don't understand why you would want to keep being a fleshy sweaty poopy meatbag.
In the campaign im in, a lich is the main BBEG, and has cursed all of us. Watching this video has made me even more scared to defeat this guy, just...fuck.
Damn, I love Liches. Recognised a lot of the art because I used to play a Lich commander deck in MTG.
Would definitely be a lich in a fantasy setting.
If these things don't keep people away from Necromancy, I don't know what will.
Just finished my first session in a new campaign today, great timing!
One of the earliest if not the earliest examples of Liches in folklore is Koshchei the Deathless in Slavic mythology, being mentioned as early as the 12th century, and is said to have a spell of immortality that works by hiding his soul inside a needle inside an egg inside a duck
googleing the origin of the word phylactery and finding out the horribly anti-semitic way its used in d&d is quite upsetting. i know these videos are supposed to be for fun, but im noticing a pattern of racism and cultural insensitivity in a lot of d&d
Nagash is the greatest lich he became a lich and killed som death gods and now he controlls his own soul so he doesnt need a phylactery and he became the only god of death after killing all death gods. Warhammer is the best fantasy their is :) Also Nagash is the creator of necromancy.
SO DOES THAT MEAN VOLDEMORT IS A LICH???
Yes
After becoming a lich could you evolve to something greater like an eldar lich or night lich?
The based undead wizard
Just what I needed for planning my D&D campaign.
Get his trigger finger and bullet eyes!! Those are good fuckin items
If any of you want to experience what a lich can do, search for Shadow of Amn and Throne of Bhaal
Also the phylactery is an anchor for there soul. It keeps there soul tethered to this realm.
Love the DnD stuff man
I want you to do one on the Yuan-ti!
*Would love a warcraft series if it's not already there*
That was sadly short
Yo imma store my soul in a fancy pickle jar and become an undead wizard yeet
I love Wiz. She's my favorite Lich