#lich!verse;

[relentlessgrief]

@lordgortrash is getting resurrected from the dead!

Enver Gortash. Former lord. A proud man. Who didn't know about him and his untimely demise?

When his corpse was retrieved and brought back to the Wood of Sharp Teeth, it was done fairly smoothly by using underground tunnels and systems to get out of Baldur's Gate. His ghastly underlings ensured of that. Sealed away in a burlap sack, when he was brought to the secret and hidden lair and laid on a flat stone slab, he was met with four loving hands that eagerly roamed across his corpse. It was an examination of damage, if any, amid the travel. There didn't look to be any. Not that it mattered--when he'd be brought back, he'd be whole again.

'Lich of the Werewolf Woods', as he was called by rumor, was an eldritch undead of miracles, surrounded by a forest full of nymphs, dryads, and the occasional lycanthropes. Some would seek him out to see if they could strike a bargain with him to bring their loved ones back to life, and sometimes he'd oblige. Other times, he'd turn them away.

The cost was high for all who came to visit.

Fortunately for Enver, his ticket was free, so as long as his soul was willing.

Skeletal hands run a hand across his cheek, admiring the dead body. Despite how nature had had its way with his carcass, it didn't take a genius to see that he was handsome in life.

How curious it'll be should his soul accept going back into his body. Once all wounds on his person are knitted back together, discoloration rectified with a beating heart, desperate lungs, and sense of self returned will Connor get to see the legend himself.

With the crushing of a rather expensive diamond that could feed the field ward of Waterdeep for centuries, the lich begins to perform the somatic component, gesturing with his hands as he speaks.

His eyes light up in a sickening green glow, that travels down to his rib bones that are etched with symbols. That same color now begins to wrap around the man's corpse.

"Enver Gortash... With this spell I reach out. Ensnared within the clutches of thy merciless god in death, I offer an escape, back into mortal coil of this material plane! I beckon thee, ARISE!"

[fadewalking]

I will sit alone in a camp of the choices for more spirit Cole and Lich Emmrich 😌

[zerogravityinq]

Idk about you but if Madoka Magica and DC were in the same universe, I would love to see the Guardians of Oa go against the Kyuubey.

Because the fuck you mean you made little girls suffer to invert entropy and gave them powers like gun summoning and unlimited time travel and one tricked you and became God and the other became the Devil????

[jr-verse]

The Lich. He's my favorite Adventure Time villain.

Literally The Embodiment Of Evil And Death... at least in my view.

[medicus-mortem]

[💀] - Was thinking about small things I could do for the Halloween month and realised I have three verses that are spooky. They are his lich verse, the weird west verse, and the demon hunter verse. I wonder if I can get some more interest flowing for them during this spooky month.

[ghetsis-a]

man I just have fantasy brain rot rn

[abracaxfuckxyou]

@destiny-unchained || lup helps her hubby

“Yeah, some water would be great, honey,” he said softly. His hand turned over and gave hers a quick squeeze in return.

[starlightkun]

🎶🛌

[quietlyblooms]

🚢 hehe

shipping sheet | @vixthem was curious!

send 🚢 or ( 'SHIP' ) if you ever considered shipping our characters romantically and want me to fill out the following form for our muses. bold all that definitely applies, italicize what could potentially apply. feel free to add more if you think certain options are missing or you just want to add more.

do i ship our characters together?: yes | no | not yet but maybe soon

would i like to ship with you?: yes | maybe, i'm willing to try | no

type of relationship i could see: childhood or high school sweethearts | exes | engaged | married | long-term relationship | crushes | unrequited love | fling | long distance | online relationship | just dating | new relationship | toxic lovers | friends with benefits

tropes i'd enjoy writing for them: friends to lovers | enemies to lovers | exes to lovers | fake relationship / dating | forbidden love | grumpy and sunshine | star-crossed lovers | surprise pregnancy | second chance | soulmates | amnesia / mistaken identity | forced proximity | secret relationship | slow burn relationship

would i rather plot first or jump right in and see where it goes?: develop their relationship first | jump right in | something in between

what now?: let's plot something | send me shippy memes | i'll send you shippy memes | write me a random starter | i'll write you a random starter

anything else i want you to know about me / my character / my shipping habits: not much else to know other than shipping with chiyo is almost always gonna be a slow burn bc of her personality, but!! that can change depending on spencer. either way, i think it'd be interesting to see how it develops ( especially with all the extra details around them -- like spencer's being a lich ), and i just really love the vibe they have rn <3 spencer has brought out chiyo's playful side from day one which always gets me smiling hehe

[grcvewctcher]

tag dump 1

[mindfoster]

“&– - .....I do hope my mentions of my own relations with a Lich did not bring up bad memories or sully opinions given your own history.” // @unfortunatedarling liked for a oneliner starter!

[relentlessgrief]

@bhaaalmade is a prisoner!

She was a bit of a misfit, wasn't she? Between babbling bouts of nonsense (at least to him) or trying to goad him into reacting to her, it was almost always childlike. Oh, how she'd smile and get this sick and twisted joy in riling him up.

Sometimes a gag would work. Other times inflicting punishment by hanging her upside down for a few hours could work until she shut up. Whipping her wasn't the best option, necessarily, primarily because she LIKED it, but sometimes it felt good for him to let out that frustration on her. The various methods of punishment and torture would depend on the day.

Some days he kept her completely in the dark, in a cell of her own. No one to talk to but herself. Other days he kept her out on a leash. Some other days he chained her hands and legs too.

Today was just a leash day.

The undead makes his way from his own personal library, down a handful of corridors and past a few other rooms until finally coming to her holding cell, where he opens the stone door and sees her.

"Orin," The lich speaks. Voice the typical deep tone that's often dripping with malice.

"How are we feeling today?"

[stellarhistoria]

@nostomannia reminds him of himself, in a way.

"Have you ever thought of taking up a hobby?" the lich king chuckles absently, reaching over to place a hand on the much younger lady's shoulder. "Sometimes a good book, or trying really hard at something that is difficult to do, makes the dread of existence go away. For at least a little while."

[vaguely-concerned]

to be distressingly earnest for a moment, I cannot applaud sylvia feketekuty enough for how incredibly well she balances comedy and actual emotional impact in emmrich's storyline. it's such a fine line to walk as a writer, and she does it perfectly to my mind. johanna hezenkoss is a wonderfully cartoonish heightened comedy character whose literal stated goal is world domination by means of necromancy and also this giant skeleton mecha monster I built. her main redeeming quality is that she's SO entertaining and perfectly unrepentantly herself at every turn and never ever does she grow anything we might readily recognize as a conscience; she may be a monster but in such a marvellous way you simply cannot begrudge her for it. we are going full tilt into the yzma zone here and never looking back. and yet! emmrich's reactions to her, and the lingering emotional fallout of their friendship ending clinging to everything, are very real and grounded and genuine, and her functionality in the narrative rock solid. it's still funny the whole way through, but also weirdly poignant.

she is a blunt archetype, but her presence causes nuance in other places. it tests emmrich's inherent kindness to show some of the flaws running through it. it shows quirks in his character you couldn't get at otherwise, exposes what the lines of temptation can get their hooks in him even in all his genuine basic well-meaningness way before the lich storyline gets fully unveiled -- that there is something in him that was drawn to her ambition and unceasing intellectual exploration of the world, even when it edged up on ruthless; that it was only when the line was openly crossed he put his foot down for good. it exposes the darker side of nevarra's political life, especially the mortalitasi -- that it would only take a handful of them forsaking their oaths and morals and deciding that ruling from behind the throne isn't enough. in the words of emmrich, how easily it would make them a new tevinter, except with a skeleton army so arguably much more metal. the slope is slippery. watch where you put your feet, watcher.

and johanna's cheerful and unrepentant spider verse doc ock supervillain antics are emblematic of the way that aside from anything else, this storyline is also -- and I must return to it once more, one cannot emphasize this enough -- so so SO entertaining about it along the way. it sets the tone in that it's campy and over the top and hilarious... a levity you really do need to bring to emmrich's arc, revolving as it does around *checks notes scribbled on hand* ah. the desperate crippling all-consuming terror of death. like um. yes. you need some liberal spoonfuls of comedic relief to make that particular theme palatable enough to get through and process, and providing that feels like both a very kind, a very intelligent, and very wise thing to do as a writer. and also ties in so perfectly with the whole thematic structure and conclusion -- the message that perhaps you will always be afraid of this thing. maybe that fear of cessation, of irretrievable loss, will be with you forever. but there is kindness and connection and fascinating things to discover in this world to make it bearable. it's all very elegantly done and I admire it deeply on a craft level as much as I appreciate getting to engage with it as a player. a masterful balancing act of tone. thank you for coming to my ted talk and goodbye

[medicus-mortem]

   She settles down in the ashen soil to tell her tale and the Lich leans back against a frail looking tree, his skeletal arms crossing over his ribcage. Burning gaze watches her, the undead lord drinking in her words and the way her light shifts during the telling. He is silent throughout, questions rising but the Lich keeping them to himself. She was young when the empire grew in power which is a disappointed. It makes her memories less clear but she does give interesting glimpses he can use.

   The king she mentions could be King Judge. He did seem to linger much longer than he should have. The histories the Lich found spoke of that longevity and it is what brought the Lich to this place. It is why he theorized that his phylactery was involved. It can provide a sort of long life to those who draw from it. Although, that long life isn’t pleasant. Often leading to a necrotic curse. The Spriggan’s words bring some form of collaboration to the information he already as. Perhaps he is in the right spot and with her soon saying that she believes an object was discovered to provide this advancement gives him even more hope. Let us see if that hope is justified.

    “It is … possible,” the Lich replies, skeletal hand once more tapping a thoughtful rhythm on his jaw. “But more research is required. I do indeed need to scour the castle for more information.” His hand lowers, burning gaze focusing on the Spriggan. The light in his eyes turns a brighter shade, his static jaw seeming to smile. “You have given me some hope, little spirit. It is much appreciated. Now, for your problem,

   “Once my lab is set up, I will need a few items from you. A large sample of the soil, some tree cuttings to experiment on, and one of your wisps so I might have your magic on hand. I doubt you will wish to venture into the castle itself to assist me.”

This was going to be a rather lengthy tale so Reiju made herself comfortable and raked her long lived memories for those that hurt the most. As she did so, the flame like aura in what served as eye sockets flexed and tightened into a ball, darkening in hue as she began to recall what she knew of the kingdom and it's heinous history.

"Despite surviving as long as I have, I never did get to know where those humans got the power to destroy so much all I do know is that their advancement was unnatural and far faster than any human settlement ever should have been capable of."

She could recall glimpses even from days when she was a mere twig born with a purpose to tend to the nature around herself. How beautiful the foliage used to be and of course the originally small village that developed alongside it. And yet as the years grew on, a darkness seemed to have taken hold in the region and her precious bit of life wasn't long for the world.

"They had taken quickly to metal work at some point, there had been a ruler donning a golden mask and lengths of wild blonde mane that was heavily involved in this advancement. He was... Longer lived than all the rulers I'd ever seen come and go from that kingdom so maybe whatever they manipulated in their favor had something to do with that too."

And who knows, that man was probably still alive as some old unageing bastard having taken along what remained of his dynasty across the mountains. She had been much too occupied to follow them then lost in her grief as she had been.

She turns her head back towards the Lich as she came to a plateau with her storytelling, aura back to being wistful and lighter than before, idly flowing between blackened cracks among the tendrils of her body.

"It is likely something that was discovered if I had to guess, though it is also most likely no longer here. Does it happen to be something you are in search for dear Lich?"

//@medicus-mortem

[medicus-mortem]

[💀] - Let Lich!Law turn your muse into an undead thrall to serve him for all eternity.