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Ethreain, the Lich

In life, the frost-mage Ethreain (not yet a Lich) had used the threat of destructive ice to enslave entire kingdoms. His subjects, aided by a few desperate magicians, eventually grew bold enough to ambush him. Armed with enough charmed rope to bind him forever, they tied the frost mage to adamant weights and dropped him in a pool known chiefly for being bottomless. It wasn't. He only fell for a year or so before an outcrop snagged him. There he rested, dead but undecaying, until the geomancer Anhil thought to verify the legend of the supposedly bottomless Black Pool. Anhil's plumbline snarled with the ropes that bound the drowned magician, and up he hauled an unexpected prize. Thinking that by rendering the dead undead, he could question the Lich about the properties of the pool, he removed the bindings and commenced a simple rite of resurrection. Even the descendants of Ethreain's enemies were long forgotten by time, so there were none to warn Anhil against imprudence. But he learned the error of his judgment almost immediately, as Lich threw off the shackles and consumed him.

Lich
Associated with
Places:	The Black Pool
Characters:	Anhil, the Geomancer

Friendships and rivalries[edit]

Allies meeting Lich

▶️ r We will bring a storm of ice and flame upon them!
▶️ r Lich, you freeze them, and I'll shatter their bones.
▶️ r You freeze them and I'll burn them down.
▶️ ▶️ r Ya know, for a mage that's cheated death you're... personable?
▶️ ▶️ r You don't really warm up to people much, do you Lich?
▶️ r Had you chosen to live, Lich, what a Magus you could have been.
▶️ r You have a chill on you Lich.
▶️ r Dead are cold, Lich.
▶️ u Dead are cold, Lich.

Enemies killing Lich

▶️ Lich, your ice is weak.
▶️ Sorcery fails thee.
▶️ Your permafrost wasn't so permanent after all.
▶️ Such an old grouch.
▶️ You'd think all that ice would make him nice.
▶️ Sorry, Lich, you're doing it wrong.
▶️ You think you can snow me?
▶️ Lich, your dedication to death endears you to me.
▶️ Cold day in Hells.
▶️ Cold made you hard, but ice made you brittle.
▶️ ▶️ I'm the Juggernaut, Lich!
▶️ ▶️ Never trust a wizard.
▶️ ▶️ Never trust the dead.
▶️ Lich, stealing your life gave me an ice headache!
▶️ Should have thrown you on the pyre sooner.
▶️ And they call me cold hearted…
▶️ Didn't you know snakes are cold-blooded?
▶️ ▶️ r You're an abomination!
▶️ Bye, Lich! He gave me the creeps.
▶️ The cold has numbed you to wonder, Lich.
▶️ Death's cold embrace.
▶️ Even you should come in from the cold once in a while.
▶️ ▶️ Thaw in the earth, Lich.
▶️ I fear not the cold, Lich. It makes me warm and drowsy.
▶️ The cold cannot hide you from me, Lich.
▶️ I've got your number, Lich.
▶️ Now I'm the numb-er one!

Enemies dying to Lich

▶️ Cold day…in…Hells.
▶️ Hell…freezes…over.

Others

▶️ r Let fear not force you all to huddle close, or ice will wrap you hard up in its chains.
▶️ ▶️ Swords and sorcery!

▶️ By the forge of creation.

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