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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How does a lich become a Demilich?

A lich could become a demilich when they no longer needed to be continually tied to a body. The lich must somehow learn the art of creating soul gems and replace eight small pieces of its body with them.
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Is a Demilich more powerful than a lich?

The Demi-Lich can be found in the Epic Level Handbook. 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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Why is a Demilich weaker than a lich?

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 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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What is a failed lich?

A failed lich who survives the attempt becomes a weaker creature known as an arch-shadow. The three-headed skull lord is speculated to be the result of failed attempts at lichdom. As long as the phylactery is intact, if the lich is destroyed it automatically re-forms next to the phylactery over a period of days.
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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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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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Are magical girls liches?

Magical Girl Apocalypse: The terrifying and murderous Magical Girls are liches in all but the name.
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Can a necromancer control a lich?

Yes, this spell will control a lich.
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Is a lich a necromancer?

A Lich is a necromancer-turned-undead who gains immortality by using the power of Phylactery. They are classified as creatures of the night.
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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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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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Can a non wizard become a lich?

According to the D&D 5e Monster Manual, a lich must absorb souls to survive, which requires the use of the 9th level imprisonment spell. This canonically makes it difficult to be a lich in 5e unless you're a wizard (or warlock) or have some other way to cast the spell.
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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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Can a tarrasque drown?

It definitely can drown

There is nothing in the stat block that states the Tarrasque can breathe underwater, so it can't. If it can be put in water deep enough that it can't get out in time before suffocation, then it will drown.
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Can a dragon beat a tarrasque?

Yes, in combat, the Tarrasque is potentially bestable by an Ancient Dragon, and relatively easy to fight if you can fly. But bear in mind that high level adventurers and high level magic is relatively rare in The Realms. Even in 5E, only high-powered adventurers have a chance against it.
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Is there only 1 tarrasque?

Supposedly, there was only one tarrasque, which slumbered within the world's core. No one could predict when it would next awake. The tarrasque was irreversibly tied to the Prime by its nature. As a result, the most one could hope to do was put the creature to sleep within the core, holding it off for a while longer.
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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 have multiple phylacteries?

The Lich cannot have multiple phylacteries active simultaneously. They can't use the original ritual to create a new phylactery after their first is destroyed, so must find a different ritual (if it is even possible to do).
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How often do Liches need souls?

Soul Maintenance: Liches must periodically feed souls to their phylactery through the use of an imprisonment spell. The soul is consumed and destroyed utterly in 24 hours. If a lich is reduced to 0 hit points, a new body reforms next to the phylactery within days.
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Who is the strongest lich DND?

Larloch the Shadow King was an awesomely powerful lich mage, supported by his spells, an arsenal of magic items, and a range of undead powers.
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Is Acererak the lich or Demilich?

Acererak was a powerful king who became a lich, and later a demilich. He appears in the original Tomb of Horrors adventure by Gary Gygax as the main adversary, and later as the guardian of the Copper Key, during the quest for Halliday's Egg.
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