Well.... on the normal version of D&D dragonbornes hate to depend on others entitys powers. This means that you never see Dragonborne Warlocks or "totally not divine warlocks" AKA clerics But if the DM wants you can even impregnate a elemental soo nobody cares
Too bad dragonborn arent related to dragon in anyway much like kobolds. Dragon borns were slaves of dragons in a alternate reality then came to our world.
@@thesquish8657 depends on the setting, according to the 3.5e book races of the dragon kobald are related to dragons, dragonwrought kobald even more so and dragonborn are created in a ritual by bahumat.
Human funeral: He died too young T_T Dragon funeral: Remember when he got so drunk he went crazy and flattened a mountain, dried up a sea and sired a hundred half-dragons? That was a great decade. ^_^
@@THEOBSERVER-1 Well, I know what I'm doing to my party of Imperial Epic Economic Investigations (IEEI, pronounced like constipation) Agents next time we meet. Thank you internet, you have rescued me from writer's block.
They are cooler liches, perfect for an campaing with a lot of vampire mages, mummy lords, liches, death tyrant beholders for you to fight, or for a party who thinks liches are too lame
"A dragonoid body" Kobolds have dragon blood and I believe are considered dragonoid so... and any soul and inhabit a necromantic fueled dragon body so...
I once had a character concept that a full grown dragon was polymorphed/reincarnated into a kobold but since he still had the mind of a dragon he would do things like jump off high places thinking he could fly or announce his totally intimidating presence when he entered a room.
@@sethkrueger5472 Made one for my campaign. Ancient female blue, known by the moniker of Azure Eminence due to being a leader of blue dragon pack with a territory so large it was considered a country in its own right and recognized as such by neighboring nations, locked in a pocket dimension in what was supposed to be a forever duel with the champion of the god of destruction, killed his opponent within days and then was left in basically a small cave for the rest of eternity. Orcus struck a deal, making her a dracolich - or at least something close to it - allowing her to wait for release while slowly going insane. Fast forward a couple thousand years and two out of the three seals closing the dimension were broken, and an adventuring party encounters the door, behind which there is one of five strongest dragons that ever lived in undead form, with an artifact axe of the champion embedded within her ribcage as a phylactery and behind her a shadow of a brave warrior, with unadulterated fury towards those who have just undone his sacrifice... AND THE FUCKS DECIDED TO LEAVE THE DOOR BE SINCE IT WASN'T PART OF THEIR CURRENT QUEST AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER WITH THE RIDDLE. I hate DMing sometimes.
I've been searching for info and stats for Draco-liches all day because I have plans on introducing one in the campaign I'm running. This was perfectly timed!
I was actually thinking of using one in my campaign, but after hearing this it won't fit very well. Unless I give my necromancer an item designed to control it. May just have to go with an undead dragon though.
True Polymorph -> Ancient Gold Dragon -> Relearn Wizardry -> More Clones -> Becoming a 9th level Wizard-Dragon. Build an empire. Fight evil across the cosmos as an unstoppable being of good. Profit.
@@zacharyrodriguez4348 think about it. Good dragon born forced to contain the soul. They come back. Still good but with that craving and not knowing what happened to them
Use the lore and the creation to build it up over the course of a campaign. Than when your players finally face it all that lore and build up makes it super interesting to encounter. Just droping a Dracolich into your game and saying here fight this is going to make it boring. But same can be said for anything really.
Well if they have something similar to a machine god, I'll pray the fuck out of machines to please the omnisiah! Though I wonder what you can do in that afterlife with said machine god?
@@krimverse5903 Go with Primus. But I don't think he listens to prayer. And if he does, then good luck not to upset him, because he is the most picky God of them all.
There's Primus but he wouldn't want anything to do with the will full and fickle souls of humanoids. He rules the plane of time I think and his minions are increadibly specific in form and function, each serving a particular role or task with a strict hierarchy of who can command who or perform specific jobs. Our souls wouldn't fit into that in 99.999% of cases, I don't think. But fuck it, this is d&d. Do w.e.
Luiz Henrique Alves dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Centaur_Mummy_(5e) So apparently Tales from the Yawning Portal had a centaur mummy... So yeah perhaps a dragon *could* be possible? As long as draconic magic doesn’t interfere or a new process has to be done like with dracolichdom rituals. You’d also have to have literal metric tons of salt and herbs for the embalming process though...
AD&D2e lick was at lest a 18th-level wizard or cleric. In 3.5e they are 11th-level spell caster, and it does not say what spells are needed. They just need something to hold their Soul in.
MrRhexx, every one of you videos fuels a new D&D plot point in my campaign. Your research is astounding and much appreciated. Please continue with these histories and expound upon us more secret knowledge. (I just hope my players don't start watching your videos :P)
Manannan anam slavic mythology has this concept. Koshi or something like that its called. Its a dark mage that tied his soul into the needle and hidden it in some mythical place and is technically immortal because of that.
@@mauriceanderson5413 He had baba yaga put his soul inside a needle, put the needle in an egg , the egg in a duck , the duck in a hare , the hare in a locked iron chest and the chest on a magical island that changed location.
You know, I love how the music is calming, peaceful, and melodious. Mean while you are describing what is literally the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to me.
also the dragon could just use a legendary action and a legendary success to make the process work. they did give ancient dragons those abilities in 5th ed.
This is a huge coincidence- in one of my most recent campaigns, the main antagonist was titled _"The Draconian Necrobear."_ It was just as terrifying as it sounds. I loved every minute of it.
has to eat to refuel its spell breath, Now im wondering if the DK starter quest in WoW when you ride a "dracolich" was smart or just dumb luck as you had to eat mobs when you ran out of its fire breath.
Personally i love the idea of someone like Strahd having a black market deal with the Cult, sending out bottles of his blood with the vistani to trade for things like spell tomes(He IS a wizard after all.), magic idems, and assorted other things to pass the eons in Barovia. Sudoku maybe. :P
What if the old body of the dragon was in a different plane? Example: The protodracolich is on the material plane while the draconic body is in the plane of water?
The same as if the dragon's body was disintegrated, they would have to seek out powerful magic to get it back, and would feel an overwhelming urge to do so.
So theoretically if a Spiritgorger, a humanoid lich stuck in it's Phylactery, was placed near a Dragon Skeleton for long enough it could become a Dracolich? So my question becomes: Does it keep the powers that a Lich has, other than reconstitution, that a Dracolich doesn't? The same question for if a willing living dragon lets the Lich possess them? What would happen if a Vampire, Mummy, or other powerful Undead(including a full Dracolich) are thrown into the mix? Is it possible for a Dracolich to become a Demi-lich? So many questions.
Why would a full dracolich want to become a lich? To answer you actual question. ( Yhisbis mostly what I take away from spiritgorgers) I’d say that that as long as the creature has an intelligence of at least 1 (Don’t know how it would offer it’s body to the lich if it had 1 Int) it would have the process of becoming a lich (the effects the ritual has, not the ritual) happen to its body. This would result in the offerer’s body replacing the lich’s in the whole “body gets recreated” thing, linking its body and soul to the lichs phylactery. And when regenerated having the offerers and the lichs soul in the body.
@@WordChemical The concept that the souls could exist cooperatively means that a Dracolich, who can't automatically reform their body, would see an advantage to gaining that power by working with a normal Lich. Mechanically they would act as one unit and any spellcasting ability or power the Lich has that the Dracolich doesn't would be applied, though I understand that this is only an advantage for physically focused Dragons like the Fang Dragon.
originalShorai in that situation the lich would have to to offer its body. In the end it would depend on which is offering to who. The lich offering to the dragon, would just have the dracolich knowledge. But the deacolich offering to the lich... a multitude of things could happen; the lich could be compelled to eat the dragons body and wish its back if it’s gone, or it could be the same as dracolich offering to lich, if the race isn’t draconic in nature it could... make one thing bad happen? Or good depending if it destroys the body’s. In this case it would be likely the dragon would return to the phylactry, but if the lichs body still regenerates it would most likely severe the connection and regenerate its body with a mind of its own. Also while they COULD cooperate, he does say that it almost always drives the host mad
@@WordChemical I've always liked playing with the idea of character clones so I was just curious about making a merged Lich/Dracolich. To be fair though I think crazy is a given to begin with.
It's from the Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG "Neverwinter". It is a cinematic representing the climactic end moment of the 5th edition adventure Rise of Tiamat.
Honestly you should turn these into podcasts, I love using your videos to chill or to sleep since I've watched almost all of them already, your voice is super calming and all the podcasts I can find are super aggressive or high energy
Not almost like Horcruxes. JKRowling completely poached that entire part of the HP mythology from D&D. Voldemort is a pseudo or semilich with 7 phylacteries depending on the edition.
@MrRhexx I'm certain I've watched all your DnD vids, I don't think I could get tired of learning from you. Something about how you make everything so easy to understand is just satisfying. Thnx.
I don’t play D&D but I love watching these videos because I have always found mythical creatures interesting. Watching the video made me wonder is there a way to turn a dracolich back into a normal dragon or is it a permanent change.
The next time I start a campaign it won't be in a tavern. It'll be at a great dragon's funeral. That kinda party sounds dope as hell and rich in opportunities for story hooks.
This went over the afterlife, linked to your other video with info I may need when running a dracolich. You have yet again exceeded expectations. I learned even about the afterlife which I did not expect! Seriously love your work, it pushes my DMing and lore knowledge to the next level :) Thank you, you are my favorite lore master.
I just got the thought of giving your player's a dracolich's phylactery and treating it like the stone of golorr but instead of wanting to be released it could be wanting to make a pact with the one that is attuned to it at the time.
Man, it boggles my mind how well informed you are... Even my best googling doesnt turn up 1/10th of the info you have on these subjects... Doesnt matter how many words you mispronounce, you amaze me!
@@germangamer7377 bad enough there are ppl plotting to make REGULAR armies of undead, now we have to deal with an army of liches? undead mages? there will be some major paranoia in that army, if the world isn't destroyed by it they'll destroy each other and maybe the world in the process
Don Uni Cornio Yes please! another way to achieve this, since so much of Pathfinder is based on D&D3/3.5, is to simply comment on additional Pathfinder sources for your lore. “Alternatively, if you include Pathfinder lore, X & Y can happen.” I’m a firm believer in using lore & abilities from all sources, & mixing them together to throw off my stats-memorizing players. “Hey, that’s not what X is supposed to do!”... “I never said it was X; you assumed that from my description.” They generally learn quick!
I’m loving these videos everyone I see one I watch it as soon as possible and it makes my games so much better! Thanks for all the work you do and keep up the awesome content!
Yo imagine being a little peasant child and seeing an undead T-Rex sprint up to a dead dragon and devour its body and then start using magic. Protodracolich.
@hien le don't click that link, it's to some kind of porn site as I just found out. time to run a virus scan now, instead of learning about demi-draco liches
So happy to see another video in this serie. you do an amazing job catching my interest and delivering the information in such an entertaining way. Is it just me or haven't you done a video on pixies?
Most dietys of good alignment view such actions similar to lichdom. But the ones who dislike this the most are the ones asociated with death and the act of dying.
@@detektivespooder4609 Indeed. A state of semi imortality can be achived in manny whays. The important question is if one is willing to suffer the conseqwences.
well done, sir! love your videos! as to the current monster manual not mentioning the dracolich's immunity to level 5 spells or lower, its just another example of the current writers "pussing down" many of the more dangerous monsters.
So, a ettin is wondering some ruins of a cave/fortress looking for food. unknown to them as they find a "pretty rock" inside a "metal box" ……. One gets the rock and rubs it fondly. "Petty Roc....." After a few days and not finding a lot of food anywhere. "Roc... Why you talkin" to me?" after a couple more days of unable to find food. "Roc?? If me agree to help you, you can help stop our belly pains?" after a few moments "Don't tell the other guy, but me agree." the poor Ettin found and made the deal with a Soulgorger.
@@senorali I would say the one that agreed to the term. the other is basically along for the undead ride. but be a lich himself. double your lichdom, double your DM fun.
great video as always but I'm still curious about the other kinds of true giants other than the hill giant of course, will we get those too just like we got all the true dragons?
Love your lore videos from skyrim to dnd, make the sessions i play with my friends alot more fun when I know all the ins and outs of lore. I was also wondering if you're planning on doing a goliath video anytime in the future, as they're a race with little explored on them and lots of interesting lore. But that aside i hope you continue making videos for a long time and thank you for doing it
The wall of souls sounds cool. Imagine a campaign where an extremely powerful Lich and it’s undead army rip through the planes in an attempt to raid the city of judgement to eternally fuel it’s phylactery with the souls the city is built from.
I really enjoyed how you explained all of this like it is real life science. Because in D&D magic IS science. If I could give two thumbs up I would so I'll do it here 👍👍
Having flashbacks to one DnD campaign, the final boss (we didn't know he was the final boss yet, and my character befriended him over time) made me a potion that bound my soul to the bottle, like how he had done to himself thousands of years ago. I needed red dragon scales, pheonix feathers, and shrooms from his long lost kingdom... Was hard as hell to do as a level 6 rogue, but got em done. Basically if I died my soul was cast into the bottle and I could possess anyone who smelled or inhaled my soul, the bottle itself had ruins on it making it artifact level durability. The phylactery deal just really reminded me of the process, except I didn't die. My afterlife just became a bottle until I yoinked some other guy's meat suite. Basically his kingdom was built off necromancy and he was the royalties chief alchemist, so in that regard it makes sense now that I know all of this.
22:22 "it's only a matter of time until the soul has attacked sufficient control of it's new body" well I think you've just given me a long term underlying plot for my campaign that I can sprinkle in small hints that dont really anything until its basically too late
I believe Spellfire was a Forgotten Realms novel and that was the first time I ever heard about Dracoliches. It was in the 90's, so I've never heard this story of creation.
I really like the idea of a party wandering past a zombie dinosaur eating a pile of dirt and not wanting to mess with it. And as their adventures went on the field it was eating gets bigger and bigger, people start talking about it and eventually it turns into a dracolich.
Just go write the runes in the stomach of a dragon then you’ll really be immortal...until the dragon dies that is but they live for thousands of year so you should be fine Edit: and you could make the dragon a dracolich and then they would be immortal as well
This seems like a great monster to have as the main villain of a campaign, could also serve as a cool surprise for the players that now have to fight the dragon they defeated a while ago but now as a dracolich.
Hi! I started watching your content about two months ago and I love it! You and A.J. Pickett greatly help me be a better D.M. and storyteller, so thank you! If I may, I'd like to request a topic. Could you please outline the difference between and ecologies of wyrms, wurms, and worms? Keep doing what you do, it's fantastic!
Given how awful so much of the afterlife is in DND, I suddenly got a lot more sympathy for villains seeking eternal life. Hell, when you know that the obliteration of your eternal soul or eternal torture possibly awaits you, then all bets are off!
It's going to be very difficult to outdo urself on the video prior to this. That Rakshasa vid was awesome! Looking forward to watching you cover more outsiders.
Kelemvor changed the rules of death so that the Faithless and False no longer had to fear going to the wall or being tortured in the afterlife. They just existed in the City of the Death, grouped together with others of similar beliefs/alignments.
I am curious as to where you get your sources. I know you directly reffer to some articles, and not others. I want to know what you see as still "cannon."
I know in my own game I expanded the lore a bit on humanoid liches to include proto liches. Mainly to close the gap between draco lich and humanoid ones. Basically, the humanoid version would form when the wizard trying to perform the ritual failed only slightly, like forgetting cinnamon in a pumpkin pie, and end up trapped in a flesh eating zombie or ghoul until it consumed the soul of another humanoid. It made the players stay on guard when fighting the bog standard zombies since killing the proto lich would cause it to reform in a semi random location after a long rest.
First time Dm trying to make a dragon lich my BBEG and I need those other ingredients or cool ideas for ingredients to have adventures be made around any tips?
Every single dragon has a treasury. So probably the most valuable object in treasury would nice. Buckets of dragon blood. It has to come from the same type of dragon that the one who wants to be a dracolich. Powdered dragon eggshell.
Would love to see a video on Lady Illmarrow, aka Lady Vol, from Eberron. Half green dragon, half elf lich. I’m sure there’s some interesting lore there.
Dragonborn Undying Warlock, whose patron is a Dracolich that is also their Draconic ancestor.
Well.... on the normal version of D&D dragonbornes hate to depend on others entitys powers. This means that you never see Dragonborne Warlocks or "totally not divine warlocks" AKA clerics
But if the DM wants you can even impregnate a elemental soo nobody cares
Stealing this and anti normal heros are the best kinda heros
Too bad dragonborn arent related to dragon in anyway much like kobolds. Dragon borns were slaves of dragons in a alternate reality then came to our world.
@@thesquish8657 Are you talking about Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms?
@@thesquish8657 depends on the setting, according to the 3.5e book races of the dragon kobald are related to dragons, dragonwrought kobald even more so and dragonborn are created in a ritual by bahumat.
Human funeral: He died too young T_T
Dragon funeral: Remember when he got so drunk he went crazy and flattened a mountain, dried up a sea and sired a hundred half-dragons? That was a great decade. ^_^
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Remember when he transformed into a cat and got so drunk he burnt the bar down with his breath weapon in cat form?
@@chazmars78 just imagine explaining to the insurance company that your bar was burned by a fire breathing cat.
@@THEOBSERVER-1 Well, I know what I'm doing to my party of Imperial Epic Economic Investigations (IEEI, pronounced like constipation) Agents next time we meet. Thank you internet, you have rescued me from writer's block.
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Step 1: DRAGON
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Step 4: PROFIT
They are cooler liches, perfect for an campaing with a lot of vampire mages, mummy lords, liches, death tyrant beholders for you to fight, or for a party who thinks liches are too lame
@Free Weeb Hentai what inspired you to come up with that name, it's amazing!
Explain the plan one more time.
Giant two headed Cyclops werewolf mummy lich
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"A dragonoid body"
Kobolds have dragon blood and I believe are considered dragonoid so...
and any soul and inhabit a necromantic fueled dragon body so...
I once had a character concept that a full grown dragon was polymorphed/reincarnated into a kobold but since he still had the mind of a dragon he would do things like jump off high places thinking he could fly or announce his totally intimidating presence when he entered a room.
Some Kobolds have dragon blood, who often become sorcerers. They didn't universally or even as a majority descend from dragons.
So make a campaign around a kobold who is on a quest to become a lich and the players must stop him
@@andrewthegeek6522 sounds good to me.
@@Sophia-vk5bq one-shot or full campaign?
You know Dracolich's are secretive and badass when not even the Demonprince of Undeath knows how to make them.
I'm pretty sure orcus probably could come up with his own way to make undead dragons, his hole thing is to fuck around with things with death
Its mindblowing that you guys take this fictional stuff way too..LMAO 😂🤣
@@thomasfarmer1730 dnd is literally for roleplaying, it's more fun when you put more into it, otherwise, we get guys like you '-'
Seth Krueger except for the fact That many dragons are already more powerful than he is
@@sethkrueger5472 Made one for my campaign. Ancient female blue, known by the moniker of Azure Eminence due to being a leader of blue dragon pack with a territory so large it was considered a country in its own right and recognized as such by neighboring nations, locked in a pocket dimension in what was supposed to be a forever duel with the champion of the god of destruction, killed his opponent within days and then was left in basically a small cave for the rest of eternity. Orcus struck a deal, making her a dracolich - or at least something close to it - allowing her to wait for release while slowly going insane. Fast forward a couple thousand years and two out of the three seals closing the dimension were broken, and an adventuring party encounters the door, behind which there is one of five strongest dragons that ever lived in undead form, with an artifact axe of the champion embedded within her ribcage as a phylactery and behind her a shadow of a brave warrior, with unadulterated fury towards those who have just undone his sacrifice... AND THE FUCKS DECIDED TO LEAVE THE DOOR BE SINCE IT WASN'T PART OF THEIR CURRENT QUEST AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER WITH THE RIDDLE. I hate DMing sometimes.
I've been searching for info and stats for Draco-liches all day because I have plans on introducing one in the campaign I'm running. This was perfectly timed!
Some adventurers are about to get a hurt REAL bad.
I was actually thinking of using one in my campaign, but after hearing this it won't fit very well. Unless I give my necromancer an item designed to control it. May just have to go with an undead dragon though.
Could you just do a bulk episode of undead in D&D for October.They are one of the most intersting aspects of D&D to me
Possibly Orcus too!
Yes.
Bulk vids consume multiple vids of content though, might be inefficient for him
"death is inescapable and all forms of longevity will stop working after a while"
*laughs in clone spell*
Except your soul just got yeeted by a greater being :(
Laughs in True Polymorph: Draco Lich.
*Laughs in ascended god/god's champiom*
True Polymorph -> Ancient Gold Dragon -> Relearn Wizardry -> More Clones -> Becoming a 9th level Wizard-Dragon. Build an empire. Fight evil across the cosmos as an unstoppable being of good. Profit.
Priam Neville my groups dm finds that when our characters are Demi gods at high levels so this little chart speaks to me on a spiritual level.
"Sounds like a terrible idea." -Klauth, Ancient Red Dragon
Was this in Neverwinter Nights?
That Tiefling in that cinematic is the real mvp, what a power move
What is that from? I want to watch it
@@kaiandresrussomunne5319 its from a game intro, just search after neverwinter mmo
@@kaiandresrussomunne5319 From Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG called "Neverwinter" his got them in the description if you want to know the other ones :)
dracoliches are so much more interesting in their creation than they are in actual gameplay.
Unless you make them a good guy
@@thatsnotgonewellatall5517 why would anyone do that?, There should be no nice liches
@@zacharyrodriguez4348 think about it. Good dragon born forced to contain the soul. They come back. Still good but with that craving and not knowing what happened to them
This comment can be applied to all lore.
Use the lore and the creation to build it up over the course of a campaign. Than when your players finally face it all that lore and build up makes it super interesting to encounter. Just droping a Dracolich into your game and saying here fight this is going to make it boring. But same can be said for anything really.
You'll hear that? Pick your own God now and start praying! Ain't nobody want to end up on the wall of shame!
My Rogue keeps almost dying, so maybe I should.
Well if they have something similar to a machine god, I'll pray the fuck out of machines to please the omnisiah! Though I wonder what you can do in that afterlife with said machine god?
@@krimverse5903 There's Primus, but I'm not sure he is 100% a deity or just has the power level of one
@@krimverse5903 Go with Primus. But I don't think he listens to prayer. And if he does, then good luck not to upset him, because he is the most picky God of them all.
There's Primus but he wouldn't want anything to do with the will full and fickle souls of humanoids. He rules the plane of time I think and his minions are increadibly specific in form and function, each serving a particular role or task with a strict hierarchy of who can command who or perform specific jobs. Our souls wouldn't fit into that in 99.999% of cases, I don't think.
But fuck it, this is d&d. Do w.e.
We should have a *Video of Every Known Werecreature* for Halloween.
Were Rats, Were Bear, & Were Ravens have cool lore.
Where are the stats for wereravens? They sound AWESOME and could be extremely fun to play. ;)
Yes, but only if there's a screenshot of the talking mudcrab of Morrowind talking about weresharks. Because comic relief.
@@youtubingjaguar5082 Curse of Strahd
@@youtubingjaguar5082 the original was Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts (AD&D 2nd Edition, Ravenloft Accessory). they had wereravens listed there
@@youtubingjaguar5082 like the guy above said, curse of strahd
Liches are some of my favorite monsters in D&D. It’s great to know how different yet alike Liches and Dracoliches are in terms of rituals
But since his video on mummies, is there such thing as dragon mumies or dracomumy lords?
Luiz Henrique Alves
dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Centaur_Mummy_(5e)
So apparently Tales from the Yawning Portal had a centaur mummy...
So yeah perhaps a dragon *could* be possible? As long as draconic magic doesn’t interfere or a new process has to be done like with dracolichdom rituals. You’d also have to have literal metric tons of salt and herbs for the embalming process though...
AD&D2e lick was at lest a 18th-level wizard or cleric.
In 3.5e they are 11th-level spell caster, and it does not say what spells are needed. They just need something to hold their Soul in.
Yeah undead monsters burn up very nicely.
MrRhexx, every one of you videos fuels a new D&D plot point in my campaign. Your research is astounding and much appreciated. Please continue with these histories and expound upon us more secret knowledge.
(I just hope my players don't start watching your videos :P)
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I would love to hear about a normal lich too. Ive wondered what the manual left out about them
Until then maybe Dawnforgecast can satiate your lust for knowledge of the forbidden arcane?
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Manannan anam slavic mythology has this concept. Koshi or something like that its called. Its a dark mage that tied his soul into the needle and hidden it in some mythical place and is technically immortal because of that.
@Manannan anam Koschei the Deathless is who he's talking about
@@mauriceanderson5413 He had baba yaga put his soul inside a needle, put the needle in an egg , the egg in a duck , the duck in a hare , the hare in a locked iron chest and the chest on a magical island that changed location.
@Manannan anam LotR did it first :D and that is mostly based on mythology.
You know, I love how the music is calming, peaceful, and melodious.
Mean while you are describing what is literally the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to me.
Yes! I simply love this series of yours. They way you describe the lore always makes it so interesting :)
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Ahh, I see you are a man of culture as well...
ALL HAIL THE SURPEME ONE! ALL HAIL THE GREAT TOMB OF NAZARICK!
17:09 that’s a really good adventure time lich fan art
That lich it's one of the most cool cartoons (not anime) villans
also the dragon could just use a legendary action and a legendary success to make the process work. they did give ancient dragons those abilities in 5th ed.
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actually watch Overlord!!!
In the case of overlord those dragons were skeletal dragons, not dracoliches, would skeletal dragons have the same resistance to magic?
@@heitorpimenta6504 Yes, they have the same magic resistance.
@@heitorpimenta6504 it's funny, because in Overlord people can only cast spells up to level 5
This is a huge coincidence- in one of my most recent campaigns, the main antagonist was titled _"The Draconian Necrobear."_
It was just as terrifying as it sounds. I loved every minute of it.
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has to eat to refuel its spell breath, Now im wondering if the DK starter quest in WoW when you ride a "dracolich" was smart or just dumb luck as you had to eat mobs when you ran out of its fire breath.
Personally i love the idea of someone like Strahd having a black market deal with the Cult, sending out bottles of his blood with the vistani to trade for things like spell tomes(He IS a wizard after all.), magic idems, and assorted other things to pass the eons in Barovia. Sudoku maybe. :P
What if the old body of the dragon was in a different plane?
Example: The protodracolich is on the material plane while the draconic body is in the plane of water?
The same as if the dragon's body was disintegrated, they would have to seek out powerful magic to get it back, and would feel an overwhelming urge to do so.
What if the body was completely consumed by magic or transformed into something that can't be eaten?
@@andresmarrero8666 treat the body the same as if disintegrated. PDL would be driven to bring the body back someway, luke a wish spell.
@@eugenehoitt3250 now that brings to mind a somewhat devious setup.
Better find a portal.
So theoretically if a Spiritgorger, a humanoid lich stuck in it's Phylactery, was placed near a Dragon Skeleton for long enough it could become a Dracolich? So my question becomes: Does it keep the powers that a Lich has, other than reconstitution, that a Dracolich doesn't? The same question for if a willing living dragon lets the Lich possess them? What would happen if a Vampire, Mummy, or other powerful Undead(including a full Dracolich) are thrown into the mix? Is it possible for a Dracolich to become a Demi-lich? So many questions.
Why would a full dracolich want to become a lich?
To answer you actual question. ( Yhisbis mostly what I take away from spiritgorgers) I’d say that that as long as the creature has an intelligence of at least 1 (Don’t know how it would offer it’s body to the lich if it had 1 Int) it would have the process of becoming a lich (the effects the ritual has, not the ritual) happen to its body. This would result in the offerer’s body replacing the lich’s in the whole “body gets recreated” thing, linking its body and soul to the lichs phylactery. And when regenerated having the offerers and the lichs soul in the body.
@@WordChemical The concept that the souls could exist cooperatively means that a Dracolich, who can't automatically reform their body, would see an advantage to gaining that power by working with a normal Lich. Mechanically they would act as one unit and any spellcasting ability or power the Lich has that the Dracolich doesn't would be applied, though I understand that this is only an advantage for physically focused Dragons like the Fang Dragon.
originalShorai in that situation the lich would have to to offer its body. In the end it would depend on which is offering to who. The lich offering to the dragon, would just have the dracolich knowledge. But the deacolich offering to the lich... a multitude of things could happen; the lich could be compelled to eat the dragons body and wish its back if it’s gone, or it could be the same as dracolich offering to lich, if the race isn’t draconic in nature it could... make one thing bad happen? Or good depending if it destroys the body’s. In this case it would be likely the dragon would return to the phylactry, but if the lichs body still regenerates it would most likely severe the connection and regenerate its body with a mind of its own. Also while they COULD cooperate, he does say that it almost always drives the host mad
@@WordChemical I've always liked playing with the idea of character clones so I was just curious about making a merged Lich/Dracolich. To be fair though I think crazy is a given to begin with.
What was the part at 20:00 from? It's always neat to see those big dragons fully animated.
It's from the Dungeons and Dragons MMORPG "Neverwinter". It is a cinematic representing the climactic end moment of the 5th edition adventure Rise of Tiamat.
7:30 "Seduce the dragons"
*Dragonborn Bard Joins the chat*
I don't want to see his browser history.
I know one thing if I lived in D&D's world I'd be a true church goin' boi.
Especially when you're fully able to bitch slap people with the power of your god.
As a moral nihilist and egotistic hedonist I would probably be the only human servant of Lolth.
Honestly you should turn these into podcasts, I love using your videos to chill or to sleep since I've watched almost all of them already, your voice is super calming and all the podcasts I can find are super aggressive or high energy
Almost like holcruxes . Voldermot did the same thing by binding his soul into seven or more pieces so he can be immortal
i hope those spelling errors were on purpose
@@reverie5760 i know. I miss spelled
WOAH SPOILERS BRO
@@JoshKnoxChinnery The final movie has been out for more than 5 years now
Not almost like Horcruxes. JKRowling completely poached that entire part of the HP mythology from D&D. Voldemort is a pseudo or semilich with 7 phylacteries depending on the edition.
@MrRhexx I'm certain I've watched all your DnD vids, I don't think I could get tired of learning from you. Something about how you make everything so easy to understand is just satisfying. Thnx.
I don’t play D&D but I love watching these videos because I have always found mythical creatures interesting. Watching the video made me wonder is there a way to turn a dracolich back into a normal dragon or is it a permanent change.
The next time I start a campaign it won't be in a tavern.
It'll be at a great dragon's funeral. That kinda party sounds dope as hell and rich in opportunities for story hooks.
That darned puppy,
always up to mischief,
digging holes,
chewing on fingers,
Gaining the vengeful ire of a DRACOLICH
That story about the museum , I am definitely using that in my campaign.
I just started D&D with a Paladin and can’t wait to play next week 😍
This went over the afterlife, linked to your other video with info I may need when running a dracolich. You have yet again exceeded expectations. I learned even about the afterlife which I did not expect! Seriously love your work, it pushes my DMing and lore knowledge to the next level :)
Thank you, you are my favorite lore master.
Thats actually oretty much how it works irl too if your talking about the intro
I just got the thought of giving your player's a dracolich's phylactery and treating it like the stone of golorr but instead of wanting to be released it could be wanting to make a pact with the one that is attuned to it at the time.
Man, it boggles my mind how well informed you are... Even my best googling doesnt turn up 1/10th of the info you have on these subjects... Doesnt matter how many words you mispronounce, you amaze me!
"The falactory will provide a new body"
So its a falactory factory?
I wonder if they make phylactaid, I'm phylactose intolerant
Puns...you gotta love em.
@@germangamer7377 bad enough there are ppl plotting to make REGULAR armies of undead, now we have to deal with an army of liches? undead mages? there will be some major paranoia in that army, if the world isn't destroyed by it they'll destroy each other and maybe the world in the process
Phylactory*
15:47 "Настойка" means "tincture"... So, does this mean I can make boose out of dead drakoliches? This sounds quite in a russian style.
One weird trick to live forever that deities don't want you to know about!
Tiamat is a deity... that's actually her shown in the scenes where he's talking about The Well of Dragons, the 5-headed dragon
The dozens of gods of undeath would say otherwise. The draconic pantheon has a god of undeath, after all.
Man, you have the BEST Lore videos, but. Have you think on make Pathfinder ones. Thanks for tour wonderfull work
Don Uni Cornio Yes please!
another way to achieve this, since so much of Pathfinder is based on D&D3/3.5, is to simply comment on additional Pathfinder sources for your lore. “Alternatively, if you include Pathfinder lore, X & Y can happen.”
I’m a firm believer in using lore & abilities from all sources, & mixing them together to throw off my stats-memorizing players. “Hey, that’s not what X is supposed to do!”... “I never said it was X; you assumed that from my description.” They generally learn quick!
Nabe vs Khajit
If you have coin, he has wares!
I’m loving these videos everyone I see one I watch it as soon as possible and it makes my games so much better! Thanks for all the work you do and keep up the awesome content!
Every time *
Yo imagine being a little peasant child and seeing an undead T-Rex sprint up to a dead dragon and devour its body and then start using magic. Protodracolich.
Important question: can a dracolich become a demi-lich? That would be truly epic.
Normal demi-lich or Acererak type of Demi-Lich?
Yes.
@hien le don't click that link, it's to some kind of porn site as I just found out. time to run a virus scan now, instead of learning about demi-draco liches
@@empoleonmaster6709 I'm glad I don't see that comment anymore
Technically nothing prevents it.
So happy to see another video in this serie. you do an amazing job catching my interest and delivering the information in such an entertaining way.
Is it just me or haven't you done a video on pixies?
Perfect Ad placement after the introduction. 10/10
You can bind your own soul into a golem or somekind armor, or with this you count lich to?
Most dietys of good alignment view such actions similar to lichdom. But the ones who dislike this the most are the ones asociated with death and the act of dying.
@@nes819 Aaaaahh... I see
But then you can do it
@@detektivespooder4609 Indeed. A state of semi imortality can be achived in manny whays. The important question is if one is willing to suffer the conseqwences.
sem semmi Similar but not the same. The difference being that you become something different in the end, one is an undead and the other a construct.
Alphonse?
well done, sir! love your videos! as to the current monster manual not mentioning the dracolich's immunity to level 5 spells or lower, its just another example of the current writers "pussing down" many of the more dangerous monsters.
that Overlord reference XD
they have a lot of d&d references in there, i love it.
@@MrRhexx you have good taste my friend ;)
@@MrRhexx ya the entire mechanics of ygdrassil is based on dnd
Great video. I love Lich, Necromancer, and any undead lore.
Good inspiration and content as always! Thanks man! :)
Came for undead dragons, learned way more about death and post-death processes than I’ve ever known! (Awesome!)
So, a ettin is wondering some ruins of a cave/fortress looking for food. unknown to them as they find a "pretty rock" inside a "metal box" ……. One gets the rock and rubs it fondly. "Petty Roc....." After a few days and not finding a lot of food anywhere. "Roc... Why you talkin" to me?" after a couple more days of unable to find food. "Roc?? If me agree to help you, you can help stop our belly pains?" after a few moments "Don't tell the other guy, but me agree."
the poor Ettin found and made the deal with a Soulgorger.
Would the lich only be able to possess one of the two heads, I wonder?
@@senorali I would say the one that agreed to the term. the other is basically along for the undead ride. but be a lich himself.
double your lichdom, double your DM fun.
@@senorali or at least comes back a death knight. lol a death knight that's connected to a dracolich. lmao
Love your recent D&D videos @MrRhexx!! Please keep it up! I sense that you have a strong calling for this! You have my blade!!
my dude can u do one on false hydras? love ur content btw
Nice video clip on Sindragosa man!
great video as always but I'm still curious about the other kinds of true giants other than the hill giant of course, will we get those too just like we got all the true dragons?
Been waiting for this too long. Finally some insight on these dragon liches.
11:54-12:10 Could a necromancer reverse engineer that magic to extend his life? Instead of becoming a lich, imbibe himself with the souls of others?
Love your lore videos from skyrim to dnd, make the sessions i play with my friends alot more fun when I know all the ins and outs of lore. I was also wondering if you're planning on doing a goliath video anytime in the future, as they're a race with little explored on them and lots of interesting lore. But that aside i hope you continue making videos for a long time and thank you for doing it
The wall of souls sounds cool. Imagine a campaign where an extremely powerful Lich and it’s undead army rip through the planes in an attempt to raid the city of judgement to eternally fuel it’s phylactery with the souls the city is built from.
Kelemvor, Jergal, and Myrkul would destroy them before they even get close.
I really enjoyed how you explained all of this like it is real life science. Because in D&D magic IS science. If I could give two thumbs up I would so I'll do it here
👍👍
I love your lore videos do much! When do you think that you'll do another video on Giants?
Having flashbacks to one DnD campaign, the final boss (we didn't know he was the final boss yet, and my character befriended him over time) made me a potion that bound my soul to the bottle, like how he had done to himself thousands of years ago. I needed red dragon scales, pheonix feathers, and shrooms from his long lost kingdom... Was hard as hell to do as a level 6 rogue, but got em done. Basically if I died my soul was cast into the bottle and I could possess anyone who smelled or inhaled my soul, the bottle itself had ruins on it making it artifact level durability.
The phylactery deal just really reminded me of the process, except I didn't die. My afterlife just became a bottle until I yoinked some other guy's meat suite. Basically his kingdom was built off necromancy and he was the royalties chief alchemist, so in that regard it makes sense now that I know all of this.
*_[Insert Joey Wheeler's creepy chin ad-modum.]_*
Thank you so much for making this, man! Appreciated.
Anyone else hear him say LICHerally rather than literally
22:22 "it's only a matter of time until the soul has attacked sufficient control of it's new body" well I think you've just given me a long term underlying plot for my campaign that I can sprinkle in small hints that dont really anything until its basically too late
21:35 um, exCuse you?
It's called archeology when their grandkids are dead too
It would depend on when it was removed.
Undocumented profitable archeology. 😏👍
That awkward moment when you find out your wife/husband is actually a pollymorphed dracolich...
Thats why she is so cold in bed
@@gufosufo337 *this*
So you laid them so hard their soul left their body?
If the husband gets an erection is it a Boner
That would just make me love her more cuz tht means wifey is a bad ass ...never mind the ego boost tht so powerful a being chose to keep me lol
I believe Spellfire was a Forgotten Realms novel and that was the first time I ever heard about Dracoliches. It was in the 90's, so I've never heard this story of creation.
"Why evil? Because they say that you have to be insane (chaotic neutral) to want to go through this process."
so most player groups?
Rise of the Nekrons (Warhammer 40k)
Bruh, no alingnment is a measurement of sanity.
@@wasteoftime5848 The only people who choose chatic neutral are insane lmfao
I really like the idea of a party wandering past a zombie dinosaur eating a pile of dirt and not wanting to mess with it. And as their adventures went on the field it was eating gets bigger and bigger, people start talking about it and eventually it turns into a dracolich.
Just go write the runes in the stomach of a dragon then you’ll really be immortal...until the dragon dies that is but they live for thousands of year so you should be fine
Edit: and you could make the dragon a dracolich and then they would be immortal as well
This seems like a great monster to have as the main villain of a campaign, could also serve as a cool surprise for the players that now have to fight the dragon they defeated a while ago but now as a dracolich.
3:18 What about boneclaws? Just curious.
Now I just got an epic vision of a Death Knight riding a Dracolitch into battle!
hi I'm a big fan and I was hoping if you could do some video's about gem dragon
Hi! I started watching your content about two months ago and I love it! You and A.J. Pickett greatly help me be a better D.M. and storyteller, so thank you!
If I may, I'd like to request a topic. Could you please outline the difference between and ecologies of wyrms, wurms, and worms?
Keep doing what you do, it's fantastic!
Given how awful so much of the afterlife is in DND, I suddenly got a lot more sympathy for villains seeking eternal life.
Hell, when you know that the obliteration of your eternal soul or eternal torture possibly awaits you, then all bets are off!
It's going to be very difficult to outdo urself on the video prior to this. That Rakshasa vid was awesome! Looking forward to watching you cover more outsiders.
Where are those clips from? I love the tiamat rising from the well
I too want to know
They're from Neverwinter and World of Warcraft :)
@@mercedes6153 Shame Blizzard sold its soul to the Chinese government.
Kelemvor changed the rules of death so that the Faithless and False no longer had to fear going to the wall or being tortured in the afterlife. They just existed in the City of the Death, grouped together with others of similar beliefs/alignments.
Got any art credit for the Devil with the red chalice? I've been looking for it but can't find the artist.
I'm super interested to know more about the Athach. That would be a fun video
I am curious as to where you get your sources. I know you directly reffer to some articles, and not others. I want to know what you see as still "cannon."
this, I also want to know what you consider cannon
I know in my own game I expanded the lore a bit on humanoid liches to include proto liches. Mainly to close the gap between draco lich and humanoid ones. Basically, the humanoid version would form when the wizard trying to perform the ritual failed only slightly, like forgetting cinnamon in a pumpkin pie, and end up trapped in a flesh eating zombie or ghoul until it consumed the soul of another humanoid. It made the players stay on guard when fighting the bog standard zombies since killing the proto lich would cause it to reform in a semi random location after a long rest.
First time Dm trying to make a dragon lich my BBEG and I need those other ingredients or cool ideas for ingredients to have adventures be made around any tips?
Every single dragon has a treasury. So probably the most valuable object in treasury would nice. Buckets of dragon blood. It has to come from the same type of dragon that the one who wants to be a dracolich. Powdered dragon eggshell.
Would love to see a video on Lady Illmarrow, aka Lady Vol, from Eberron.
Half green dragon, half elf lich.
I’m sure there’s some interesting lore there.
We need more dragon's !
Hey MrRhexx Thenks for the video. Please make What They Don't Tell You About Goliaths
can we get one on shadow dragons?`:D
_The Rise of Rammakhet_ needs to be a module now... It'd be awesome.
10:55 Is that Durnehviir, the second best dragon in skyrim?
Yes it is
Thanks, first time finding this channel and already got inspiration for my game. ✨