Spellscribed Q&A: Litches

One of my readers had a question about Litches in my world, so I thought I'd share the answer with everyone else!

Daniel Stahel Christiansen on Facebook asked:

"So, if a magic user dies by draining, which i imagine works works like a sun becoming a black hole, does the opposite do the reverse? Does a lich draining itself resurrect?"

Answer:
The sun becoming a black hole is an excellent analogy!

It has been observed that Litches are capable of absorbing enormous quantities of power without it affecting its undead state. In the same analogy that you provided Black Holes are capable of swallowing other suns without becoming full even if they were formed by a sun collapsing. Same kind of principle applies to Litches.

However a Litch's existence is directly tied to the amount of power it has stolen; they sustain themselves on power alone. Damage to their physical form is also restored nearly instantly through their aura at the cost of fractions of their power. Once power is drained whether through their casting spells or being injured or some combination of the two, the Litch ceases animation and becomes a corpse.

Some mages have theorized that the act of dying by power drain is not an alternate condition of the aura, but rather a transition into the state of undeath. Basically, once the transition is complete, there is no known way to reverse it.

So I guess the best answer is... no, not really.

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