How does one go about becoming a Lich in your setting? Is there a set process to it, or does it depend on the state of the soul aiming for lichdom? Just how steep a price tag does immortality have?
Just to kick off the discussion, I've decided that the one common thread between every lich's ritual to create their phylactery requires the destruction of the one thing you care the most for, and to incorporate it into your phylactery. If you want to live forever, you'll have to do so without the thing you live for. Someone with nothing to give up but theirself will lose their sentience, and the ritual culminates in them becoming an especially resilient skeleton - no agency, no memories, just indefinite existence.
Well you follow the instructions in an old tome and then the DM takes control of your character because he hates fun.
Carter Sullivan
I'm so sorry your group didn't want to follow you around as you wank to your power fantasy.
Easton Stewart
We were all evil and all searching for immortality. Same thing happened to the vampire and necromancer.
Ryan Morales
You implement your nervous system with cybernetics until your brain has been entirely replaced and became an immortal syntetic machine - but the process has to be gradual, otherwise it will just be an AI clone of your consciousness. Then, you make a number of syntetic bodies and create neural interfaces so that you can feel everything they feel, if you want to, and a number of additional drone bodies under your total control. If you lose your vicar bodies, you just make more from your disenbodied artificial phylactery. Tadaa, cyber lich.
Josiah Howard
Oh well, I shouldn't have assumed like that.
Gabriel Howard
>Apologizing on the internet Ffs
Sebastian Reed
No, assumptions are fine. This is Veeky Forums, there's no reason not to assume any given user is a butthurt, petty cunt.
Nathaniel Price
Idk Veeky Forums is by far the least toxic board and Veeky Forums isn't very toxic on the scale of the internet
Colton Jones
A person who wants to become a lich first needs to learn the secrets of the kundalini chakra, the chakra conterminous to his physical body and linked to the material plane, then he needs to perform "psychic surgery" on his own subtle body, basically sever a part of his soul to prepare for the phylactery.
The process starts with the lich-to-be entering a meditative state to separate the 8 bodies, then he engages in astral projection to assume the form of his astral body (anahat) which then forcefully removes the subtle material body with negative energy, then the lich takes it and folds it down to integrate it onto the object to become the phylactery. After hes done he has become undead, the subtle material body trapped in the phylactery becomes his anchor to the material plane, without the flow of chi from the rest of the subtle body the material body begins to decay, the lich must then concentrate the meridian of the lower mental body (manipura or nabhi) in the skeleton to prevent it from decaying too.
