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| '''Liches''' used to be powerful [[necromancer]] in life, so powerful to survive his/her death as becoming [[undead]], also known as Liches.
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| ==Description==
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| Liches tend to be powerful evil creatures who are stronger now they are [[Undead]] than they were when they were alive.
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| A [[necromancer]] is an evil [[wizard]] who practices in the [[necromancy]].
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| Necromancy is the power over the world of the [[dead]]. Their powers enable them to raise corpses from the ground to create armies of [[Skeletons]] and [[Zombies]].
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| ===Etymology===
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| The term ''lich'' comes from the Slavic ''licho'', which means ''evil''; an alternative spelling is ''liche'', a word that pairs with modern German ''leiche'', meaning ''corpse''.
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| ==Origin==
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| In old Roman Catholicism, the ''lych'' or ''lych gate'' is a covered area at the entrance to the [[cemetery]] where the casket awaits the clergy before proceeding into the cemetery for proper burial. As such, the suggestion as to the fantasy undead creature, the Lich, is of an undead creature that was never properly buried, never made it to the grave. This is different from other types of [[undead]] creatures, such as [[Vampire]]s and [[zombies]], who were buried and returned from the dead. Since most religions maintain that only [[God]] or a god can bring someone back from the dead, there is also a suggestion of hubris in the idea of anyone but a deity reanimating dead.
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| Hence, the idea of [[undead]] is the idea of an unclean, unholiness.
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| ==See Also==
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| *[[necromancer]]
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| *[[necromancy]]
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| *[[Skeletons]]
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| *[[Voodoo]]
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| *[[zombies]]
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| ==Links==
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| [[http://www.theliches.com/ The Liches]]
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| [[Category:Corporeal undead]] [[Category:Death]]
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