artu said:

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Some of his jokes are allright but I wont be able to say I'm specially fond of this one.

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artu said:

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liches and mummies match well conceptually, (aristocrat mage mummified)

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LizardWarrior said:

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3. The lich played in the Adams family which is associated with horror and undead (and comedy)

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Stevie said:

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Everything's wrong with that when you call it a lich.

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LizardWarrior said:

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It's not like they can't cut holes through it I like mummies and Egypt's ancient history, but the h6 and h7 so far had a poor execution of Egyptian culture: the colors, the architecture was more Sumerian and meso-american rather than Egyptian (yeah, I know the Saqqara pyramid ), the units weren't that inspired from Egyptian mythology (an Ammit would have been cool), their design was just ugly: spikes everywhere, the vampire looked rather like a fantasy medieval spin-off than Egyptian, the lich looked like a sado-masochist with all these chains and whips in h6, while the upg ghouls looked like well... something Why didn't they just put liches on the ground, give them an Egyptian crown, an ankh staff, maybe a mortuary mask and just name the Mummies? Even if they only renamed them to mummies would be better, also they could recolor their skin to a brownish hue so they look like the Tollund Man. Also, let's not forget that the Egyptian undead theme is also in Warhammer, the similarities with warhammer made them to change a lot of cannon lore and units from h5.

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LizardWarrior said:

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First, the lich. It has those useless spikes which look ugly, like some wisdom teeth gone mad, like the skeleton's it has no defensive or offensive propose, I know it's a spellcaster, but it looks utterly ridiculous. Also these spider legs/appendages add even more "spikeness", it's bracers finish in spikes too, this is starting to be freakin' hilarious, also his nails are spikes, his dress is shredded in sharp edges, his staff is spiky, his belt has sharp edges too. This is 2edgy4me, they exaggerated with spikes. Also I want to present you Uncle Fester in all his splendor, Tut looks like nothing to the lich in comparative to Uncle Fester, baldness, black pockets around their eyes, that grin , wrinkles and the fact that both make me laugh. Also if the lich was a mummy his face would be covered in bandages and/or have a cool morturary mask or a Egyptian crown(from any kingdom), his staff would end in an ankh or a serpent h3 style. Also these multi-color lights make him look like a damn Christmas tree, maybe the spikes were its pine needles, we got purple, cyan, pink and green there

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Protolisk said:

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All right, LizardWarrior, it is true that the spikes and chains were unnecessary, but you don't need to copy what you posted before. It still doesn't change the fact that they are supposed to resemble mummies, though the connection could go further.

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artu said:

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Not really. It can be a little untraditional in terms of actual mythology but Heroes is full of such adjustments. It's not tasteless like the vampire that doesnt look like a vampire. It looks both like a lich and a mummy, and just like Pawek, I think the H5 liches already had that flavour going on a little bit already and they were all right.

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Wikipedia said:

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In fantasy fiction, a lich (/ˈlɪtʃ/;[1] cognate to Dutch lijk, German Leiche, Norse lík and Swedish lik all meaning "corpse") is a type of undead creature. Often such a creature is the result of a transformation, as a powerful magician or king striving for eternal life uses spells or rituals to bind his intellect to his phylactery and thereby achieve a form of immortality. Liches are depicted as being clearly cadaverous, bodies desiccated or completely skeletal. Liches are often depicted as holding power over hordes of lesser undead creatures, using them as soldiers and servants.

Unlike zombies, which are often depicted as mindless, part of a hivemind or under the control of another, a lich retains revenant-like independent thought and is usually at least as intelligent as it was prior to its transformation. In some works of fiction, liches can be distinguished from other undead by their phylactery, an item of the Lich's choosing into which they imbue their soul, giving them immortality until the phylactery is destroyed.

Various works of fantasy fiction, such as Clark Ashton Smith's "Empire of the Necromancers", had used lich as a general term for any corpse, animated or inanimate, before the term's specific use in fantasy role-playing games. The more recent use of the term lich for a specific type of undead creature originates from the 1976 Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game booklet Eldritch Wizardry, written by Gary Gygax and Brian Blume.

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Stevie said:

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Mummies died, and they're more on the Zombie side, not possessing intellect.

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LizardWarrior said:

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Also if the lich was a mummy his face would be covered in bandages and/or have a cool morturary mask or a Egyptian crown(from any kingdom)

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