Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-71.61.178.23-20130722105712/@comment-71.61.177.24-20140402150444

Becoming a lich! I wasn't expecting it, but I wasn't surprised. I actually think there is a mod for Skyrim that does that...

I don't think that Dark Ball spell would go over well. For some reason, I think a lich would favor shock spells - and possibly frost. Certainly loads of the entire school of Conjuration - lesser Daedra, necromancy, usage of soul gems.

That Grip of Death ain't half bad, however.

Neither is the Mass Ressurection one. Paired with the Command Ressurected, which perhaps could simply be a spell cast at the target to "mark" them for the undead, that would be very powerful. Perhaps the most powerful tactic available to a lich player.

I'm not sure what exactly you meant with the Death Incarnate power, but it's given me an idea. Upon reaching low enough health, the lich can activate a power that creates a frost + Soul Trap blast centered around them, casting Soul Trap, doing a medium-to-large amount of damage to enemies, and healing the lich to nearly full health. Once per day, I think.

Certainly there should be a questline for it. I think it ought to be a medium-main questline - that is, traditional guild questlines being minimal-main, the main questline being true main, and stuff like killing Paarthy would be medium-main - it would be a choice in the main quest (ish) that doesn't really change the main quest but changes your circumstances and certainly changes what would happen a year or twenty or fifty or a hundred or an Era later. That is, whether the BoJ becomes a lich, a lycanthrope (and which kind), a vampire; whether and which Daedric Prince(s) they strike a deal with; whether they join one of the revolutionary factions in the Aldmeri Dominion, and which one(s); etc. In lore, the main quest is always completed; minimal-main quests can be completed or not with little impact, and the medium-main quests may or may not be completed, but whether or not they do has an impact, and therefore they must be shrouded in mystery, lost to the ages, or simply obscured with a Dragon Break.

This is why there will be so much speculation about the Dragonborn - stories and such, with some little jokes for Skyrim players such as "every major guild in Tamriel claims they were backed by the Dragonborn", etc etc, generally lampshading the fact that many things are confirmed to have happened as of Skyrim, and the Dragonborn could have done them, depending on an individual's gameply af Skyrim. However, nobody in-world has any idea whether the Dragonborn completed all of those quests, naturally, so they remain rumours and bedtime stories.

Anywho, yES the BoJ becoming a lich would be amazing.

- WorshipsMeridia