Masters and innovators of modern archaisms as literary device included such well-known names as H.P. Similar archaisms were revived and sometimes redefined by the popular imagination in that fertile ground known as American Pulp Fiction, namely in the fantasy and horror genres of weird fiction. An archaism is a deliberate imitation of old-fashioned language in order to stress a certain time-frame or to enhance atmosphere. For the most part the term was used as an archaism. The term and the creature fused together in the pulp fiction of the early 20 th century. Lichdom must be prepared for in life no true lich ever is known to have come about “naturally”. The urge for immortality is so strong in some powerful mages and magic-user/clerics that they aspire to lichdom, despite its horrible physical side effects and the usual loss of friends and living companionship. The once living visage reduced to the bones with maybe some withered, leather-tough tatters of flesh to hold the joints together. The transformation of the body to the being of a lich is the death of the mage and the rotting of the corpse leaving only that necessary to contain the animating force. However, their actual soul has been captured in a special object called a Phylactery. In the case of Liches, this force is magic rather than a demonic spirit though perhaps still elemental. This force typically alters the corpse in significant and grotesque ways to adapt the newly formed creature to its new (un)life as a creature of the night. This force, often malicious, oft defined as demonic and occasionally elemental replaces the soul as the animating force and/or mind. Undead creatures are dead bodies animated often by an outside force after the soul of the dead being has since flown from the bones. First off, undead creatures were formerly living and thus have had a “first death” rising from the grave weirder and more powerful. Ī lich is an undead creature therefore our concerns lie first with the condition of undeath and the meaning of ‘undead creature’. mage or cleric so thirsty for immortality as to try to cheat death, and already powerful at magic. When they first appeared seemingly out of whole cloth they were undead spell-casters with strange powers, became ideal and grim antagonists, and continue today as antagonists of boss-monster proportions. The lich is an undead spell-caster that has for the most part deliberately become undead as a bid for immortality able to gather more arcane-knowledge and thus power over time. The lich is a very common archetype in modern fantasy and one of the most recognizable but how far do the roots of the monster actually go? These undead wizards appear as mostly skeletal with only the scant, mummified remnants of flesh left hanging from their yellowed bones, and in the deep black pits of their perpetually grinning skulls, red pinpoints of hellish light. Whether it is at the head of an undead horde or a shadowy figure behind the scenes using monsters and people like chess pieces the undead wizard known as the lich is adept on and off the field.
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