Lich
In Dungeons & Dragons(D&D) and derivative games, a lich is a wizard or cleric who seeks to defy death by magical means. They transform theirselves into an undead state by means of various unholy rituals and store their soul in a magical jar called a "phylactery." The name comes from the Old English lic, (pronounced the sam) which means "corpse."A lich retains the abilities he or she possessed in life, but they also have had a virtual eternity to practice new skills and inevitably become very formidable. The most powerful example of a Lich in D&D is known as Vecna[?].
Mesmin, had come so near to
early part of these memoirs.
The young man proved to be her brother, whom she commended to my
that she could compass no more regular method of introducing him
and, like my own, allied to several of the first consequence.
conjured me so movingly by it--and by the regard which her family
application with the hundred others of like tenor that at that
dark, however, I invited the young fellow to walk with me in the
timidity in his manner, that he was something out of the common.
continued, between jest and earnest.
"That letter, sir," he answered simply; "and, failing that, two
courage."
I could not but stand amazed at his coolness; for he spoke to me
as little curiosity as Guise or Montpensier. It was evident that
of all the St. Mesmins he did not value himself least.
"Well," I said, after considering him, "I do not think that I.
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