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| rdfs:comment | - Liches are the classic undead casters in the game. Having decent evade and packing an arsenal of spells like teleport, darkness bolt, hexes, lightning bolt, and ice bolt that they use considerably, these creatures are any melee warriors nightmare. Luckily, these creatures have fairly low hitpoints for their level.
- Liches were once masters of the black arts who became so powerful, that they chose to continue their studies forever as undead wizards. This never-ending existence of evil, paired with enormous magic powers, make liches very dangerous. They usually have retained their personality, and have megalomaniacal plans. They are a constant threat, and have to be destroyed as fast as possible. Only the most powerful adventurers dare to attack a liche in its own domain.
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| Game | - Ultima IX
- Ultima I
- Ultima IV
- Ultima VII
- Ultima Underworld II
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| Introduced | - Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
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| Text | - The Lich is an evil spellcaster who, through the necromantic arts, hath entered
a state of living death in order to prolong an unholy reign on earth. Woe to the explorer
who stumbles upon the lair of a lich, for the undead mage will guard its domain fiercely
and attack without hesitation.
- This is an extremely rare type of undead creature that is both dangerous and very difficult to destroy.
- Occasionally, an extremely old and powerful wizard will choose not to suffer a natural death, but instead become a liche. In such cases, their bodies die, but their minds live on and animate the rotting corpse. Liches are in nearly all cases solitary, most being scholars who carry out magical research in secret. Anyone capable of becoming a liche must already be highly intelligent and a master of arcane knowledge. In most cases, a liche is also completely insane.
- This undead shade of a powerful wizard can still cast very powerful magic spells. The Lich is a most dangerous opponent under even favorable conditions
- According to myth, Unthar, an ancient mage, became consumed with pride in his magical powers and sought to use them to defy death forever. So was born, the tale goes, the first lich. No one has seen these mythic creatures of the undead and returned to tell it. Yet, the rumors persist of these lords of the deepest catacombs. Should half of the tales prove true, the lich is a horror that one's life should never witness.
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| Caption | - Liche, from Ultima VII manual.
- Liches as they appeared in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.
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| Class | - Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain enemy
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| Book | - Journal
- The First Age of Darkness
- The History of Britannia
- The Book of Fellowship
- A Safe Passage Through Britannia
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| abstract | - Liches are the classic undead casters in the game. Having decent evade and packing an arsenal of spells like teleport, darkness bolt, hexes, lightning bolt, and ice bolt that they use considerably, these creatures are any melee warriors nightmare. Luckily, these creatures have fairly low hitpoints for their level.
- Liches were once masters of the black arts who became so powerful, that they chose to continue their studies forever as undead wizards. This never-ending existence of evil, paired with enormous magic powers, make liches very dangerous. They usually have retained their personality, and have megalomaniacal plans. They are a constant threat, and have to be destroyed as fast as possible. Only the most powerful adventurers dare to attack a liche in its own domain. File:Liche2.gif Liches are usually found within their lairs, the places where they hold power, usually deep in the dungeons. They are sometimes seen directing legions of lesser undead, and occasionally in the company of daemons or balrons. After first seen in Ultima I, liches only appeared in Ultima IV again. From Ultima VII onwards, they were in every installment (apart from Ultima VIII). In Ultima I and IV, a liche manifested as a disembodied flying skull, although in later installments it appeared to master possession of a full body.
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