Lich and Power Lich
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Liches and Power Liches are the level 5 creatures of Necropolis. They are recruited from the Mausoleum, and can also be raised with Expert Necromancy if the hero has equipped the Cloak of the Undead King.
"Liches attack at range with a death cloud, which always causes damage in the target hex but also attacks all non-undead creatures in adjacent hexes. At close range, they defend themselves less efficiently with blows from their scepters." RoE manual
Dwellings & Portraits[edit | hide | hide all]
Heroes with a specialty[edit | hide]
Moandor the Death Knight
Special Ability: Death Cloud[edit | hide]
Liches' Death Cloud special ability only works when they attack at range. In addition to normal ranged attack damage in target hex, the Death Cloud also causes a "puff of death" that affects all 6 adjacent hexes around the target hex dealing damage to all living creatures in the radius. The damage is caused equally to allied and enemy creatures, and the amount is calculated individually for all affected creatures. Two hexes wide creatures do not suffer additional damage if both of their hexes are affected. Although Liches also defend Necropolis towns in arrow towers, their attacks follow the arrow tower calculations, and do not apply the death cloud effect.
Death Cloud is similar to Magogs' Fireball Attack. As Fireball Attack and Death Cloud are considered as AoE ranged attacks, they can't be affected by Preemptive Shots 
, even if target Gunslingers or Bounty Hunters as a central hex.
Creatures immune to Death Cloud:
Golems: Gargoyles: Elementals:
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Undead:
War Machines: |
It should be noted, that the immunity only concerns the Cloud causing damage to adjacent hexes. It does not protect creatures from Liches' normal ranged attack damage.
Horn of the Abyss[edit | hide]
Liches and Power Liches can shoot death cloud at any hex of the battlefield except for its own hex and adjacent ones (unless Bow of the Sharpshooter is present). Targeting dialogue is called by pressing G.
Sounds[edit | hide]
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Note: Clicking the icons will play the corresponding sound. Volume control in left side panel.
Trivia[edit | hide]
- Greg Fulton in his Tavern of Might and Magic Interview: "Think of a Lich as something of a ‘lifeforce vortex’, slowly and progressively draining life from its living surroundings. For a Lich, ‘lifeforce’ is the air in which it breathes. This doesn’t mean a Lich couldn’t ‘life drain’ a singular human target, but a Lich certainly has no taste for flesh or blood."
Gallery[edit | hide]
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User Commentary
They have relatively low health and defense stats, so they should be protected.