PhoenixPhyre
2019-04-28, 11:09 AM
So there's the dracolich in my setting (I'm the DM) that didn't want to be that way. Blame a beyond-deific[0] being incarnated into flesh who wanted a suitable mount.
This dracolich was killed and his creator "banished"[1] about 200 years ago, but has been in a form of stasis since then, unable to reconstitute himself or really die. That stasis is going to end real soon (due to meddling PCs). The PCs might want to turn him back into his previous self, something the dragon's mate wants more than anything. They do not have access to wish (and that would not be a safe wish) or true resurrection.
Not worrying about specific game mechanics here, if they wanted to turn him back, what sorts of things might be suitable/interesting/thematic to require? What sorts of ceremonies, rituals, etc? There's a new pair of demigods of redemption in the setting; the party also has the aid of a fey creature obsessed with love/romance and another lich, although that other lich isn't all that directly powerful himself (just has lots of knowledge).
I'm willing to do this in narrative time (ie have it be a quest that happens off camera over a long period of time).
[0] as in "primordial force of chaos from the dawn of creation, turned rebel".
[1] he lost due to a freak accident and the self-sacrifice of all his compatriot primordial forces. He's less "banished" than "unmade", incorporated into reality itself. He's not coming back.
This dracolich was killed and his creator "banished"[1] about 200 years ago, but has been in a form of stasis since then, unable to reconstitute himself or really die. That stasis is going to end real soon (due to meddling PCs). The PCs might want to turn him back into his previous self, something the dragon's mate wants more than anything. They do not have access to wish (and that would not be a safe wish) or true resurrection.
Not worrying about specific game mechanics here, if they wanted to turn him back, what sorts of things might be suitable/interesting/thematic to require? What sorts of ceremonies, rituals, etc? There's a new pair of demigods of redemption in the setting; the party also has the aid of a fey creature obsessed with love/romance and another lich, although that other lich isn't all that directly powerful himself (just has lots of knowledge).
I'm willing to do this in narrative time (ie have it be a quest that happens off camera over a long period of time).
[0] as in "primordial force of chaos from the dawn of creation, turned rebel".
[1] he lost due to a freak accident and the self-sacrifice of all his compatriot primordial forces. He's less "banished" than "unmade", incorporated into reality itself. He's not coming back.