Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-28269188-20160421204046/@comment-28690383-20160608151618

Yes, but if we're gonna do it, we'd better get full-on lichdom. As in:

1-entire battallions of undead thralls (like, 15 or something)

2-the ability to kill certain NPCs only to raise them as zombies

3-significant power-leeching abilities, not a weak health sucking spell. It has to suck up their magicka and stamina as well, and has to do it fast, preferably with an area effect. And I want the victims of lichdom to look like draugr if they die by lichdom. Preferably an all-new set of spells and enchantments.

4-making pacts with certain Daedric Princes (mainly Molag Bal, Mehrunes Dagon, Hermaeus Mora, Boethiah, Clavicus Vile and Mephala) and the Ideal Masters to gain power. It also means getting in trouble with Meridia.

5-learning about heart-magic (briarhearts, heartstones, Lorkhan himself, they all seem to have a very deep connection to their heart as a source of both power and life - even tough the false hearts have no blood-pumping functionality) and applying it to people

6-finding and kidnapping victims suitable for sacrifices and experimentation

7-creating a coven and disseminating apprentices through the Dark Brotherhood and magic schools

8-being constantly hunted by the Vigilants of Stendarr and many others (by performing any explicit necromancy - not conjuration, necromancy - you are hunted with the biggest bounty possible in any hold/city since you're necessarily a serial killer)

9-bounding yourself to a Deadric Prince, becoming an undead yourself to better canalyze your lich powers, becoming resistant to frost but also becoming vulnerable to fire, sun and silver in the process, and having to fullfill that Daedric Prince's will on Nirn and abide by his/her rules.

10-and, naturally, being tutored by Mannimarco (wherever the hell that decrepit Altmer is...)

I'd love a full questline just for that.