Pulsar Lich

**Pulsar Liches**, also known as **Parallaxes**, **Star Specters** or **Nova Ghosts**, are a race of people born as a result of the 'death' of a star. Being born from a star, Pulsar Liches are vastly powerful creatures with potent magical abilities that can affect time and space around them.

## Biology

### Sub-type

* Folk
* Star

### Movement

* walk
* fly

### Abilities

* Innate magic
* Magic of creation
* Psionics
* Shapeshifting

## Description

No one is certain as to what the true form of a pulsar lich with scholars pointing to the lack of description given from old Aedellion and Get'zu sources. It is likely their natural form, like the stars they are born from, are far too bright for mortal eyes to gaze upon. It was quite common for pulsar liches to use their vast command of magic to take on mortal shells to walk amongst folk for their own purposes with these incarnations often bearing a unique set of horns that betray their celestial nature. It is this form that is said to have inspired the imagery of the 'horned one' often associated with the constellation of the same name.

## Abilities

These creatures command vast power and can use magic to influence the very planet and world around them. They can polymorph and take on whatever form they desire, often adopting one of a folk they have a particular fondness for or the best form for whatever they need to achieve. Being born of the trans-sentient stars, even just carrying a fraction of their power makes pulsar liches powerful beings in their own right that could likely challenge the likes of arch-existences or gods, being able to defy them whenever they wish.

Being creatures that have existed since Time Immemorium, pulsar liches are also fonts of cosmic knowledge and know of many different secrets the stars hide in the dark vacuum of space.

## Legendary Lore

Everything dies eventually. The cosmos are built upon this law and have always been this way since the Astral Star long ago went supernova to create the universe. Much like their forebear, stars die too, in a violent explosion known as a supernova that leave them in various post sequence states. It has been proven that stars can take on life; this makes sense as all souls are forged of star dust. The Shek people are evidence of stars given mortality. Like the Shek, the Pulsar Lich is one such being; unlike the Shek, the Pulsar Lich is not motivated be redemption. Pulsar liches are highly powerful beings and are not undead nor liches in the traditional sense.  They did not choose to be this way, but maintain themselves in a similar way to lichdom. Their soul is maintained far off in a satellite orbiting the world with the name being given to them by folk trying to better understand what they are.

Like other creatures born of starlight, the starfaring Aedellions held pulsar liches in great esteem with some of their legends suggesting they were perhaps the children of the star specters.

## Trivia

* Despite bearing the names of 'ghost' and 'lich,' pulsar liches are not undead, but rather are categorized as a strange type of celestial.
* The name 'pulsar lich' is derived from pulsars, a type of neutron star that results from a star collapsing on itself during a supernova. This represents the pulsar lich's nature as a stellar remnant. The 'lich' part of their name comes from their tendency to store their souls off-world on a planetary satellite.
* The name 'parallax' is inspired by the name of a cosmic entity in DC Comics, particularly the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline.