lich
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In fantasy fiction, a lich () is a type of undead creature with magical powers.
Key facts
- Mythical creature.AKA
- Liche
- Mythical creature.image
- Wesnothlich.png
- Mythical creature.image_size
- 200px
- Mythical creature.caption
- A lich from the game The Battle for Wesnoth
- Mythical creature.Grouping
- Legendary creature
- Mythical creature.Sub_Grouping
- Undead
- Mythical creature.Similar_entities
- Zombie, magician, revenant, skeleton
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Encyclopedic overview
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In fantasy fiction, a lich () is a type of undead creature with magical powers.
Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's "The Empire of the Necromancers" (1932), had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animate or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy role-playing games. The more recent use of the term lich for a specific type of undead creature originates from the 1976 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game booklet Greyhawk, written by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.