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Old 06-26-2020, 01:15 PM   #13
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Default Re: Different Liches [Magic/Horror]

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Originally Posted by Alden Loveshade View Post
I'm certainly not going to disagree with your personal experience. But the term "lich" applied specifically to a corpse decades before the term was adopted by RPGs. A "lichyard" meant a graveyard.
It's Old English. Cognate to the Swedish term "lik", which means "corpse." And "similar", because we have homonyms in Swedish.
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