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Create original lich names with meaning, etymology, and an easy pronunciation guide.
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Old English 'līc' (body, corpse) + sound-roots 'thar' (the enduring) + 'on' (the sovereign close) — the enduring body
He has reformed his body seventeen times from the same phylactery, and the careful hunter of his province has learned to seek the vessel, not the corpse.
Best for An archlich of the supreme power
Latin 'mors' (death) + 'elix' (the bound) — original compound of the death-bound
Her death is held in an iron box sealed under the floor of a tower no map records, and the body in the tower is only the latest of her reformations.
Best for A phylactery lich of the bound death
Sound-roots 'zeth' (the eternal, the archaic) + 'yron' (the sovereign close) — the eternal-one
He has studied the same grimoire for three centuries without sleep, and the pages of the book are said to be the worn-down stone of the table they rest on.
Best for An eternal lich of the long-study
Sound-roots 'kael' (the archaic) + 'thorix' (the archmage-close) — the archmage-archaic
He held the chair of high magic at the great school for two hundred years before he chose the phylactery, and his last living student is now the headmistress of the school.
Best for An archmage lich of the great magic
Sound-roots 'vor' (the defiled) + 'mithrax' (the broken-mage close) — the defiled-mage
His phylactery was cracked by a rival's spell before the rite was complete, and the body he reforms each time is said to be a little more wrong than the last.
Best for A defiled lich of the broken rite
Old French 'charnel' (the flesh-house) + sound-root 'lith' (the stone) — the flesh-stone
Her phylactery is the keystone of the tower she built in life, and to take the keystone is to bring the tower down on the taker.
Best for An archlich of the flesh-bound
Greek 'a-' (not) + 'thanatos' (death) + archaic close — the deathless
He has worn his original body for nine hundred years without reformation, and the careful scholar who meets him notes that his hands are the hands of a man, not a corpse.
Best for An eternal lich of the deathless study
Greek 'phylakterion' (the guarding-amulet, the phylactery) + archaic close — the phylactery-bound
His death is held in a single brass coin he carries in his own mouth, and the careful thief who would take it must first take the head.
Best for A phylactery lich of the bound-guardian
Sound-roots 'daru' (the corrupted rite, the wrong-sealed) + 'ghulix' (the defiled close) — the rite-corrupted lich
Her phylactery was sealed with the wrong name, and each reformation brings back a little less of the mage she was.
Best for A defiled lich of the corrupted rite
Old English 'līc' (body) + sound-roots 'var' (the enduring) + 'on' (the sovereign close) — the enduring-body
He has held the same tower for so long that the tower is held to be part of him, and the careful hunter of his province notes that the tower itself heals.
Best for An archlich of the enduring flesh
Greek 'nekros' (the dead) + sound-root 'sketh' (the archaic close) — the dead-archaic
She has studied the language of the dead for so long that she is said to speak it in her sleep, and the dead of her province answer her in their dreams.
Best for An archmage lich of the dead study
Sound-roots 'vol' (the hidden-vessel, the buried) + 'evix' (the archlich close) — the death-vessel-bound archlich
His death is hidden in a needle in an egg in a duck in a chest under an oak on an island no chart marks, and the careful hero who seeks it must pass all seven seals in order.
Best for An archlich of the hidden death
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Behind the names
Lich names should sound like a sorcerer who refused death — a heavy archaic onset (l, ch, k, th, m, z), a sustained middle that suggests long study, and a final close that does not end (-ix, -on, -us, -eth, -ar). This generator draws on the modern fantasy archetype of the lich (the undying mage who has preserved itself beyond death by binding its life to a phylactery) and its folkloric root in the undying sorcerer tradition — the Slavic Koschei the Deathless, whose death is hidden outside his body in a needle in an egg in a duck in a hare in an iron chest buried under an oak on an island; the Western European wizard who will not die; the eternal magus of medieval grimoires — without copying any attested proper name from any tradition and without claiming the specific lore of any one tabletop game. Use the subtypes to move between the archlich of the supreme power, the archmage lich of the great magic, the phylactery lich of the bound death, the eternal lich of the long-study, and the defiled lich of the broken rite. Every name is original and includes a meaning rooted in death-bound, the undying, the phylactery, the eternal study, the broken rite, or the hidden death, a readable pronunciation, and a story-ready role.
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