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Lich

Lich
Lich
CR 21
Medium Undead (wizard), Neutral Evil
Reveal Stat Block
Armor Class
20
Hit Points
315 (42d8 + 126)
Speed
30 ft.
str
11
+0
dex
16
+3
con
16
+3
int
21
+5
wis
14
+2
cha
16
+3

Traits

Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair).If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Spirit Jar.If destroyed, the lich reforms in 1d10 days if it has a spirit jar, reviving with all its Hit Points|XPHB. The new body appears in an unoccupied space within the lich's lair.

Actions

Multiattack.The lich makes three attacks, using Eldritch Burst or Paralyzing Touch in any combination.
Eldritch Burst.m,r 12, reach 5 ft. or range 120 ft. ({@damage 4d12 + 5) Force damage.
Paralyzing Touch.m 12, reach 5 ft. ({@damage 3d6 + 5) Cold damage, and the target has the Paralyzed|XPHB condition until the start of the lich's next turn.
Legendary Actions.The creature can take 3 legendary actions...
Deathly Teleport.The lich teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space it can see, and each creature within 10 feet of the space it left takes 11 (2d10) Necrotic damage.
Disrupt Life.con 20, each creature that isn't an Undead in a 20-foot Emanation [Area of Effect]|XPHB|Emanation originating from the lich. 31 ({@damage 9d6) Necrotic damage. Half damage. {@actSaveSuccessOrFail The lich can't take this action again until the start of its next turn.

Lich

Lich

Deathless Master of Magic

Some nefarious magic-users carry out forbidden necromantic rituals that sever their souls from their bodies to turn themselves into liches, masters of magic and undeath. With their souls preserved in hidden relics, liches puppet their own corpses as they pursue ambitions free from mortal bonds.

Liches possess exceptional cunning and magical prowess, and they use their unnatural immortality to pursue arcane secrets few could grasp in a single life. Uncanny agendas lead them to plumb the secrets of life, the multiverse, godhood, and less fathomable topics. Careless of mortal lives or desires, liches go to any lengths to achieve their goals.

A lich's age and origin influences its form. Older liches appear as little more than brittle skeletons clad in the rotten finery of forgotten empires, while younger liches more closely resemble living creatures and are clad in contemporary garb. Many cloak themselves in illusions of their idealized mortal forms.

Although liches don't fear death, they're not free from the ravages of time. Over ages, some liches lose their connection to time and the physical world, degenerating into demiliches.

Lich Spirit Jars

The process of becoming a lich is involved, dangerous, and unique to each would-be lich. If the rite succeeds, the lich's soul is bound to a spirit jar, a specially prepared magical repository. This relic anchors the lich's spirit to the world and preserves it should the lich's body be destroyed. A lich can be slain only if its spirit jar is ruined. As such, a lich goes to great lengths to hide and protect its spirit jar.

Spirit jars are typically small, well-made objects that were meaningful to a lich in life. Roll on or choose a result from the Lich Spirit Jar table to inspire where a lich hides its soul.

Lich Lairs

Liches create secluded libraries of magical lore and arcane laboratories hidden within extraplanar bastions, fortresses with cursed reputations, or other such deadly sanctuaries.

Ambition can become an addiction of the mind and spirit. It builds beyond a driving flame into an insidious inferno that burns a mage hollow until only the desire for more magical power remains