Yep looks pretty awesome :) But not so undeadish to me. I would ave guessed some sort of demon mage.

Heh, thanks! *nods* I imagined maybe she tried to cover up her undead appearance, trying to keep her appearance of beauty immortal as well :b Although she's got pretty decent cleavage for a dead chick :V

THAT!.... is true yes.

Also, every time I see your avatar I want noodles :b *shakes fist*

Nooooooooooddddddeeeeelllllllllsssss XD

Although, ironically, it makes me want pho, not ramen :V

beautiful.

Thank you :)

You didn't really think this through, did you? Now all of the male liches will try to woo her! But it's really nice, though. Except for the staff, it would get banned in China

Heh, thanks ;)

I don't know if Liches generally are so much male as they are lacking in boobflesh. Then again, the female characters in the games I play aren't generally as encumbered by fanservice as they are in other games, so maybe it's just hard to tell.

*chuckles* Despite being the artist who voluntarily gave her visible boobage, I was thinking that myself, actually. Maybe she's new to the lich game and her boobs haven't entirely deteriorated yet :V Or maybe she's a particularly proud/vain undead woman who wants to try to keep up appearances artificially/magically - I sorta thought this might make sense, I could see liches often being arrogant, proud, or vain, part of feeling like they deserve to live forever.

Well, if you've played Might and Magic VII, you know that Archibald was very close to finding a way to magically prevent the flesh of the body from decaying after the lich ceremony is performed. Unfortunately, there's a dark side civil war and he and the other necromancers get kicked out of the Pit. The art of necromancy is set back for years because of this.

No, I haven't :( Sorta doesn't surprise me, though! I can see all kinds of wizard/mage/etc. societies suffering from in-fighting and dirty politics :b *coughunseenuniversitycough* :V

you mean unseen university from Diskworld, right? My travels in the Diskworld are limited so far to The Color of Magic, but I plan to go further soon as I can find time

It's not really so much infighting as the evil faction of a group of humans trying to rebuild an interstellar empire that has fallen into barbarism (hence the apparent high fantasy environment of the might and magic games, which is suddenly supplemented with science fiction elements characteristic of the old franchise). Poor Archibald and his minions are just being used by these interstellar interlopers who have no interest in necromancy or dark magic at all. Their plan is to resurrect lost technology instead of powerful wizards and use it for global conquest.

The Colour of Magic is great, although Rincewind is was (:'() Pratchett's least favourite character to write :b I love the luggage, though <333

Oshit, I heard about that! It's all high fantasy until suddenly, at the very end of a very long game, it's suddenly science fiction :b

I did kind of enjoy Rincewind, but Twoflower and his crazy damn luggage were a trip and a half.


Yup! But the new owners of the franchise have gotten rid of that, sadly. I've played some of the new games, and they aren't terrible or anything, but they are a lot more generic than the older ones.

Heh, a friend of mine is in the middle of replaying MM6, I think? He said, despite having played and replayed it numerous times, he's never made it to the end - he's heard about laser guns and aliens, but has never gotten to witness it himself :b So he's trying to see if he'll make it this time, haha.

Yeah, the later quests can be bit daunting if you don't grind a little. And you also have to take into account resistences of enemies. Blasters are great because they do energy damage, which is the only form of damage you enemies will never be resistent to. But several monsters are completely immune to physical damage, or certain elemental magics (fire elementals, for example, will be immune to fire damage, not that that's surprising or anything, while ooze is immune to pretty much everything except fire and electricity)

Oozes have almost always been a pain, regardless of game/system/world :b

Truth lol

Yes! Good choice for the classic undead monster! I have a thing for liches. I always thought, if I was a mage in a fantasy world, I'd end up as a lich.

I also find myself frequently commenting on things that you then address in the description. "A female lich? Don't see many of those!" Gotta love chains on a headdress, too! Though, I think my favorite effect in the picture is that of the very particle-y shadows dripping and whipping out of her very voluminous robes.

Another really cool one :)

Thanks! I see them as sort of the result of the common desire for immortality, and a look at what might be required (in a world where magic exists, anyway) and what that does to a person. I felt arrogance and pride made sense, going along with the idea that this person believes they deserve to live forever, even at the cost of morality and life "as it should be".

Heh, the idea of the chains on the head-dress/"crown" was that maybe she'd begun to lose her natural hair, and that the chains would emulate hair while also emulating the idea of binding - binding life in death, binding souls to her service, etc.

Thanks again, glad you like her :)

I want to be her best friend...this is how much I love her and everything about this artwork lol.

<333

I stand corrected, this and a vamp would be a perfect combo. ^..~

Haha, glad you like her, then!

I've always loved ethereal figures in flowing gowns and clothes for some reason, just makes it seem eerily beautiful and magical. And when they're a little tattered or frayed, it makes it even more visually pleasing, kinda like Corpse Bride for example.

I agree :)

She looks great. I'm glad to see a lich that isn't male for once since all of the ones I've seen are males or just rotting corpses themselves.

I've thought of another idea for a campaign that could be interesting. The adventures find themselves stuck between a war between a lich and a Xyl'r. Since they both reanimate the dead they's be trying to destroy the influence of the others magic. The lich would invite the adventures via a messenger to come and work for it, with a person invested by a Sarcokleft. When the Sarcokleft would leave a body the lich would take it so it's a symbiotic relationship. The Xyl'r would be devouring the energy of spirits in the area making shrine keepers send out a mass plea for help. So the adventures would have a chance of helping the lich or the shrine. Either way they'd in up between two armies of the dead where the living are running from everything and fortifying in small strongholds. Dead Broodmothers would be swarming the forests, while Carnivorus Winds would roam the plains. You could even have people hiding in tunnels having to fight not only the undead but also the darkones, acrimites, and possibly ice worms depending on the terrain.

Thanks!

Haha, I love how your mind works <333

I can't deny I love coming up with these crazy ideas. Just don't know how to take them anywhere

That was one thing i found kinda sad in Titan quest- Immortal Throne: The Lich-Queen kallixenia they presented there, was just a repaint of the male summon, if even.
I also like the idea of yours of giving her a mask/ helmet, as most artwork sticks to showing the skull to pronounce the undeadness. However, in also giving her some gloves/ flesh remains on the arms, it becomes really hard to identify her as an undead. Seems more ghostlike to me.
Still a nice take, though.

Yeah, I was torn on how skeletal I wanted her to look like. I wanted it to be more potentially ambiguous, so I covered most of her up, except the cleavage, which is sorta fan service I guess, but also struck me as strangely realistic of a woman who believed she deserved to live forever - she'd want to boast her beauty, too, at least so long as she still had it :b

So a lich is like a vampire, minus the eternal youth part?

Mm, not quite. A vampire is its own magical "species" of undead creature born from turning/corrupting others into one of their own, and feed on the living. Liches are normal mortal races who have magically induced undeath in themselves, and possess the magical skill to bind or command undead.

But they don't retain their youth correct?

Liches? I don't think so.

Okies, yeah because anytime I played them in videogames they looked like zombies just about.

*nods* Liches are basically undead wizards :b I think they are usually depicted as skeletal or zombie-ish, but I don't think they strictly have to be that way.

Hence the eerily beautiful creature we see above. ^..^

Is this litch a total bitch who likes Abrecrombie & Fitch?

Indeed! She's a true lich bearing Abercrombie & Fitch gitch. A right witch, her evil plans often go without a hitch - someone needs to throw that bitch in a dirty ditch full of burning pitch. That would be rich.