![]() ![]() Generally, when a being is godlike enough to grant divine power to a Cleric or Paladin, we tend to think of them as being outside of the "killable" range. One question that you often have to think about with Warlocks is exactly how powerful one's patron is. Granted, Liches have precedence in legends like Koschei the Immortal or the quintessential "dark lord" of fantasy fiction, Sauron (though, as essentially a fallen angel I'd make Sauron's creature type fiend.) Indeed, the fact that the One Ring both keeps Sauron present on the material plane (Middle Earth) and can only be destroyed in a special way makes him the prototypical Lich (I'm sure he was in mind when they first came up with the idea.) Of course, more recently (younger than D&D) you had Voldemort from the Harry Potter series, whose Horcruxes are just a phylactery in seven parts. The latter is particularly interesting to me in that Nightwalkers are not, if I recall correctly, actually formerly living things - they're just manifestations of darkness.Īlong with the Beholder, the Lich is one of the most iconic and famous monsters to come out of D&D. Few beings, I think even fiends, can survive going to the Negative plane, but the few entities that can, like Atropals and Nightwalkers, have the Undead creature type. ![]() On one hand, the "Negative Plane" that sits below the lower planes and is a sort of undifferentiated expanse of the very essence of evil manifests typically as necromantic, undead magic. The Undead in general are in sort of a weird place in D&D lore. While she has a good feel for the basic personality of her character, she's been trying to figure out exactly who her patron should be. In a newer (three sessions in) campaign I'm playing in (playing a Dragonborn Eldrtich Knight fighter,) one of my friends is playing a Tiefling Warlock with an Undying patron. But I tend not to see a ton of people playing them. Indeed, I think that there might only be exceptions for Wizards and maybe Druids. It's sometimes easy to forget that the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide has a ton of sub-class options. ![]()
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