Are Demiliches more powerful than liches?

The demilich is a higher (and more powerful) form of lich, so to speak. According to the AD&D 2nd edition Monstrous Manual, a demilich is a lich that has evolved to something more powerful.
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Are Demiliches stronger than liches?

In the D&D 5e Monster Manual, demiliches are explained as being liches who neglected to feed and were weakened. There is a more powerful variant that deliberately become demiliches in their pursuit of power, but the default is presented as being quite definitely weaker than plain old liches.
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What is more powerful than a lich?

A dragon can also become a dracolich. Dracoliches are greatly feared, for they are far more powerful than ordinary liches. A dracolich that became a demilich would be an extremely powerful monster, even by dragon standards.
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What's the difference between a lich and a Demilich?

Great wizards and sorcerers usually became liches in order to continue their pursuit of magic and power beyond death. Demiliches were those who were close to reaching the end of their arcane journey; who understood the nature of magic and reality in a way no mortal could conceive.
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How long does it take for a lich to become a Demilich?

If its phylactery remains intact, the demilich will regenerate after 1d10 days and, if it consumes even a single soul, it once again becomes a fully-fledged lich.
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Can a lich become a god?

1 Liches Can Become Gods

Becoming a god is perhaps the most ambitious of goals for a lich to accomplish, but it's nonetheless possible. The power of a god in DnD is usually directly tied to the number of worshippers he or she has, which can prove a problem for most liches.
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Do Demiliches have a phylactery?

The demilich uses Flight either to get out of range of an enemy who does one or more of the damage types listed above or to speed its departure toward its phylactery. Cloud of Dust blinds all creatures within a 10-foot radius; there's no reason ever to use this on just a single target.
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Can a necromancer control a lich?

Yes, this spell will control a lich.
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What is a Demi Lich?

Demilich may refer to: A type of lich, a creature in fantasy fiction. Demilich (band), a Finnish death metal band. Demilich (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of lich found in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
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Are magical girls liches?

Magical Girl Apocalypse: The terrifying and murderous Magical Girls are liches in all but the name.
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What is a lich weakness?

Actually, a lich has one other weakness, and that's its arrogance.
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How powerful is Acererak?

Acererak is an extremely powerful Lich- one so strong he could ascend to godhood, but chooses to refrain, instead delighting in the torment and suffering of luring adventurers with great treasure and subsequently destroying them with his traps.
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What would a lich want?

A lawful evil lich desires the ability to dominate others. A chaotic evil lich craves the power to destroy. A neutral evil lich may want one or the other, or both. Domination is the purview of a dark overlord and is a perfect desire for a campaign-ending lich.
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Can a player become a lich in D&D?

The most common way to become a lich is through the ritual of lichdom. The secret to performing this dark ritual is well-guarded, and the ritual can only be performed by a spellcaster who can cast spells of 4th level or higher.
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Can a cleric become a lich?

Clerics are healers so perhaps a cleric-lich would be a healer of the undead - uses spells like transference or negative energy flood. Historically, any spellcaster who was a high enough level could become a lich, even one you wouldn't normally associate with undeath, like a druid or bard.
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How do you become an Archlich?

To become an archlich, a living spellcaster must create a magical item of some sort. By tradition, for most wizards this item is a miniature spellbook into which they put the nine spells they seek to carry forever in undeath.
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What level is a Demilich?

Spells. The demilich can cast any spells it could cast as a lich. This sample demilich was a 21st-level wizard (spells per day: 4/12/8/7/7/7/7/6/6/3). The last three spell slots are 10th-level slots and available for 0-9th level metamagic spells.
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Who was the first lich?

The Sarrukh liches were probably the earliest (I recall some odd Gnoll mummies that were pretty ancient/primordial as well) in canon lore. The oldest 'humanoid' lich on record would probably be that Elven one thats linked to the Calimemnon Crystal.
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Is AINZ an elder Lich?

On the other hand, there were many many different kinds of Elder Liches. This includes the Elder Lich Iguva=41 that Ainz managed to summon who was only level 22. While the Elder Liches working in Ashurbanipal were nicknamed White Counterfeiters, they were only level 30 and are ranked second in the Elder Lich family.
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Can a lich become human again?

If you kill the lich (after destroying the phylactery) then use true resurrection it will return to life as as the creature it originally was. Assuming that the soul is now willing after being freed from the phylactery this means that the (former) lich can now be resurrected to its non-undead form.
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How do you beat Demi Lich?

The only way to kill a demilich is the same way you kill a lich in any form—you destroy its phylactery. As the most recent Monster Manual notes, “As long as its phylactery is intact, the demilich can't be permanently destroyed.”
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Can you grapple a lich?

In addition to the above abilities, Kuva Liches can perform grapple attacks against Tenno, dealing heavy damage to them. The player will be thrown and stuck in a ragdoll animation after these attacks. During the animation other players can damage the Kuva Lich, albeit dealing reduced damage.
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Can a lich's phylactery be on another plane?

Nope. Just Convenience. The issue with placing a phylactery on other planes is that when the lich gets destroyed, it reconstitutes at the phylactery. If that is located on another plane then the only magic that can help plan revenge, and find out what's happened since destruction, is cross planar divination.
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