Litch

== Attributes ==
 STR: 45 INT: 120
 
 AGL: 30 WLP: 150
 
 DEX: 30 FTH: 100
 
 REF: 30 FOC: 45
 
 FOR: 55 PSY: 40
 
 PER: 10 LCK: 10
 
 FEAR: 120
== Abilities ==
*Claw Attack (60, Fair damage)
*Command Legions (125)
*Command Servitor (125)
*Create Servitor (65, any Servitor-class entity)
*Drain (75, Fortitude, on touch)
*Enthrall (55)
*Glamoury (110)
*Glare (Power) (90)
*Hellgate (25)
*Impose Will (50)
*Magick (175)
*Mind Reading (45)
*Pestilence (45)
*Presence (120)
*Realm of Fear (20)
*Reconstitution (105, only if physical body is destroyed)
*Summon Servitor (45)
*Summon (Power) (40)
*Swarm Breath (75)
== Characteristics ==
*Aura of Death (10 feet)
*Breathless
*Calling (all Undead creatures in a 20 mile radius)
*Chill
*Creature of Magick
*Damned
*EMF Source
*Energy Absorption
*Immortality
*Instant Destruction (the destruction of the phylactery)
*Master
*Needs Nothing
*Odiferous
*Physical Shell
*Rapid Healing
*Resistance (+1 rank vs. magickal effects)
*Undead
*Weak Spot (phylactery)
== Description ==
A Litch is a human magician who, on the verge of death, either feared what lay beyond or decided he had not yet gained enough power, and so bound up his immortal soul into a physical container in order to keep it from departing. As such, it maintains life and intelligence in his body (although not vitality: the body begins to decay as usual) without allowing the spirit to die and pass on to the next world. This gives it an eternity to strive for power and satisfy its ever-increasing megalomania.
== Location ==
Litches can be found anywhere, from the castles of Scotland or Germany to the towering skyscrapers of New York. Wherever humans seek power, there they are.
== Modus Operandi ==
Litches seek only to gain power and knowledge, and will stop at nothing to do so. They hole themselves up in their lairs and gather both knowledge and a horde of undead evils to their sides. Their search for power may lead them to try to break the laws of the spirit world, such as attempting to take over the world by great magickal force. They will use every power at theirdisposal to reach their evil ends.
== Neutralization ==
A Litch's physical body may be destroyed, and even completely torn apart or immolated, but its spirit will reconstitute its body within one week. The only way to destroy a litch is to find the physical container containing its soul, called a phylactery, and destroy it. Normally, it is a decorative glass flask, and can be broken easily, but it will be both well-hidden and well-protected.
== Story Seed ==
Women and children are going missing from the inner city, their bodies turning up drained of blood in the sewers, killed in what seems to be a highly ritualistic manner. Someone in the area, a researcher in solar energy, has made the chilling discovery that for every body that turns up, the sun's average light output is reduced. The party must discover the plans of a litch which seeks to blanket the world in eternal night before it is too late.
Category:ESPER
Category:Creatures