lich

Also known as lych

In fantasy fiction, a lich () is a type of undead creature with magical powers.

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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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Image: Wesnothlich.png

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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.