Talk:Lich/@comment-25547106-20160119164755

Personally, I don't agree with the phylactery bit. When a Lich's Phylactery is damaged, they make another one. They have to, otherwise their soul leaks out and the cold clutches of death finally close in on them. Some Liches actually become so powerful, that they destabalize the bonds between their undead forms and the magics keeping themselves together. In other words, the influx of magic is so potent, they slowly fall apart. Not too sure if there's a cure for that... Anyway, I don't think it makes sense that they can actually retrieve their soul from their phylactery without having any negative side effects. They cut their spirit from their bodies so they could avoid death, that means that their spirits are waning and near death. Putting it back in their mortal coils should complete the life-death circuit and put them right back on death's radar. There's a reason why Liches in fantasy settings do everything that they can to keep their Phylactery safe, but away from them. Some even make their Phylacteries unique objects, rather than necklaces, just so that they remain safe. One powerful Lich made his Phylactery a perfect, innocent child, to dissway goody-two-shoes Paladins from harming it.