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	Lich-Lords
Race(s):	Undead
Leader(s):	Lich-Lord Jevyan; Lich-Lord Lenvan; Lich-Lord Caror;
Capital(s):	Jevyan's Haven

Revision as of 21:06, 3 September 2019

The Lich-Lords were a group of liches who ruled over the Wesfolk.

History

Rise, my soldiers of darkness, the world will be ours once more!

—The Lich-Lord Lenvan is released from his prison.

The Lich-Lords were a ruling class of liches who controlled the Wesfolk.^[1]^[2] While on the Old Continent,^[3] the Wesfolk spent many generations learning the dark arts of necromancy.^[4] Motivated by their desire for immortality, the elite of the Wesfolk became Lich-Lords upon death, while the lesser Wesfolk became their undead servants.^[3] They also had possession of a valuable artifact, the Ruby of Fire.^[1]

The Lich-Lords lost the Wesfolk a war on the Old Continent, and a contingent of Wesfolk refugees led by the Lich-Lord Lenvan fled east to the Green Isle.^[1] Upon their arrival, they encountered Haldric's people, resulting in the Wesfolk War. Though the Lich-Lords' necromancy gave the Wesfolk an advantage,^[5] the war turned against them when Haldric's people succesfully utilized mages for the first time, petrifying the Lich-Lord Caror in stone along with the Book of Fire and Darkness.^[6] Also during the war, Lenvan was magically sealed within a temple's catacombs.^[1] The war ended in defeat for the Lich-Lords,^[5] and the Wesfolk withdrew to their capital, Jevyan's Haven, named after the Lich-Lord Jevyan.^[2]

The Lich-Lords took on the sorcerer Malifor as a pupil, who subsequently learned the arts of necromancy.^[7] During the Second Wesfolk War, the Lich-Lords became desperate enough to open gateways to the old continent, allowing orcs to invade the Green Isle.^[5] Malifor was disloyal to the Lich-Lords, however, and fled with the Wesfolk. Some time after reaching the Great Continent, he became a lich himself.^[7] Jevyan began to conquer the Green Isle, but upon discovering that Prince Haldric had obtained the Ruby of Fire,^[2] followed the humans to the Great Continent.^[8] There he was defeated in combat by the human refugees.^[9]

Though the national identity of the Wesfolk eventually disappeared with the founding of the Kingdom of Wesnoth,^[10] the legacy of the Lich-Lords did not. Ardonna, a pupil on the Isle of Alduin, sought to replicate the Lich-Lords dark arts,^[11] eventually becoming a lich herself.^[12] Her former headmaster, Aimucasur, in spite of his initial hostility to necromancy,^[11] also transformed into a lich, taking on the title of Lich-Lord until his death at the hands of Konrad.^[13]

References

[oldwood-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 The Oldwood, The Rise of Wesnoth

[final-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 A Final Spring, The Rise of Wesnoth

[return-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Return to Oldwood, The Rise of Wesnoth

[minds-4] Meeting of the Minds, Secrets of the Ancients

[summer-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 A Summer of Storms, The Rise of Wesnoth

[clearwater-6] Clearwater Port, The Rise of Wesnoth

[pursuit-7] 7.0 ^7.1 The Pursuit, Northern Rebirth

[vanguard-8] The Vanguard, The Rise of Wesnoth

[rise-9] The Rise of Wesnoth, The Rise of Wesnoth

[epilogue-10] Epilogue, The Rise of Wesnoth

[slipping-11] 11.0 ^11.1 Slipping Away, Secrets of the Ancients

[mortality-12] Mortality, Secrets of the Ancients

[dread-13] Swamp of Dread, Heir to the Throne

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Lich-Lords
Race(s):	Undead
Leader(s):	Lich-Lord Jevyan Lich-Lord Lenvan Lich-Lord Caror
Capital(s):	Jevyan's Haven