List of fictional liches

* Blizzard's game series Warcraft plays host a number of liches who belong to the Undead Scourge: Araj the Summoner, Amnennar the Coldbringer, Ras Frostwhisper, Rage Winterchill and Kel'Thuzad, who holds the position of majordomo to Arthas Menethil. ["Game Informer" provides information on who the character is, why the character is important, and what is next for the character in "Faces of "Warcraft": The Essential Introduction to Characters," "Game Informer" 183 (July 2008): 101.] The ruler of the Scourge, Ner'zhul, is known as the Lich King.
*The upcoming expansion to Blizzard's popular World of Warcraft features a powerful undead sorcerer who can modify his sword with magic and is adept at necromancy called a Death Knight, which was originally from D&D.
* In The Elder Scrolls, Liches [ [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/
] ] are undead human necromancers who have imbued themselves with their necromancer magic, and transform into liches. Liches rely upon black magic, both from their staves and from their spells. They will also usually summon an undead underling, such as a skeleton warrior.
* In , Liches are a powerful form of undead, but can be summoned with a spell by a necromancer, or by the player if they have a high enough conjuration level. Also, players joining the Dark Brotherhood are required to assassinate the necromancer Celedaen, before he completes his transformation into a lich. The character Mannimarco is also supposed to be a lich, even if he appears as a normal High Elf in the game.
*The "Warhammer Fantasy" setting includes liches such as Nagash and near liche characters such as the Lichemaster, as well as Liche-Priests in Khemri.
* In Lord of the Rings, the Maia named Sauron, although already of infinite lifespan, becomes a lich of sorts, pouring into the One Ring his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all life, which was, in effect, his entire essence. When killed by Isildur, he did not die, as his essence was bound to the ring, and he could only be destroyed by the destruction of the ring itself.
* The last boss in Guild Wars Prophecies is a Lich, he summons the Titans of the Ring of Fire Islands
* In the MMORPG Tibia a lich is a mid-strong undead creature with an arsenal of spells
* The Horned King from Disney's "Black Cauldron" (1985) and the Lloyd Alexander books that inspired the film.
* Morda from Lloyd Alexander's book Taran Wanderer, part of the Chronicles of Prydain. Morda kept his life force in a bone fragment.
* The concept of a Horcrux from the Harry Potter universe resembles a phylactery, though considering the series' grounding in folklore, this probably doesn't derive from modern fantasy sources. This would make the primary antagonist of the series, Lord Voldemort, something akin to lich or a demi-lich (because he has created 7 phylacteries), though he lacks the undead body traditional of liches.
* In AdventureQuest, a character with the Necromancer class is able to become a Lich upon death. There is also a dracolich, which is an undead dragon.
* In Times of Lore, a wizard who has transformed himself into a Lyche resides under a ruined temple in the desert. He is depicted as an inanimate corpse sitting on a throne.
* In the Sega Master System game Phantasy Star, Liches feature as a minor enemy in some dungeons.
* The "Gray Witch" in the anime/manga Lodoss (Note:Kala the Gray Witch only puts her will in a Head ornaments before her death, not her Soul. And the ornament controls the next person who wears it)
* Golden Sun uses liches as an enemy
* The game features Liches as powerful creatures serving the Undead Hordes.
* The GURPS supplement GURPS Undead enables a wizard to become a lich, who requires monthly doses of a special elixir made from "some rather unpleasant materials (free but illegal)" to survive. In the GURPS Technomancer setting there are several "atomic liches" who were created by experiments with radiation and who now secretly work to promote death and destruction.
* Dark Lich is a boss from the SNES game Secret of Mana, and the game's sequel Seiken Densetsu 3. In Secret of Mana, he first appears as the game's main villain, Thanatos, before showing his true form.
* The Iron Liches as bosses from the PC game Heretic.
* In City of Villains, a Necromancer Mastermind's most powerful pet is a Lich
* Xykon, the evil villain of the webcomic The Order of the Stick, is a Dungeons & Dragons-inspired lich
* In the original Final Fantasy, Lich is one of the Four Fiends of Chaos, associated with the element of Earth. He causes the earth to rot and decay by blocking the power of the Crystal of Earth from escaping the cavern in which he rests. A vampire, his subservient, is encountered before him as a sub-boss battle.
* In Final Fantasy IV, Scarmiglione, the Earth Fiend, is a Lich-like undead wizard, commanding zombies in battle.
* In Final Fantasy Tactics there is a 'Rich' summon (due to a mistranslation)
* In Final Fantasy IX Lich is the Earth Guardian of Terra.
* In Final Fantasy XII, a Lich is a monster which can be found in the Tomb of Raithwall.
* In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, a Lich is the boss of the undead-filled area Rebena Te Ra. This Lich, unrelated to the Lich of other Final Fantasy games, resembles a giant Yuke.
*Liches appear in the game Vagrant Story, where they are 'evil' type enemies described as mages who gained eternal life through making pacts with demons. They are powerful magic users capable of teleporting around the rooms they appear in. The game also features lich lords, more powerful versions of the basic lichs, and Death, a Lich-like enemy who resembles the Grim Reaper and is tasked with hunting down the possessed.
* In the remake of "The Mummy" and its sequels, the main villain Imhotep is rendered immortal through the Curse of Hom Dai. His body was reduced to a skeleton by scarab beetles and sealed in a coffin. After being accidentally revived he assimilated the flesh and organs of a group of thieves who opened a cursed chest. Imhotep was also skilled in necromancy, being able to animate the corpses of his long-dead priests, and in the second film animates the mummies being kept in the British Museum.
* "The Lich" is the final boss of the "Forsaken Province" territory in the game .
* Liches are prominent villains and player characters throughout the Might and Magic series, notably Might and Magic VII, VIII and IX.
* The Heroes of Might and Magic series' Necropolis faction contains Liches and Power Liches (alternatively named Archliches and Lich Masters in the fifth game) as troops. Some Liches are also major storyline characters and protagonists, such as the Necromancer and .
*In Heroes of Might and Magic IV, Lich is a class of hero attained by mastering the death magic and chaos magic skills. Lich heroes can age enemy units by attacking them, reducing their attributes.
* In , liches are a form of undead
* In Ultima Online, a lich is a type of undead enemy with a strong melee attack and powerful spells. There are three types of liches: the regular lich, the more powerful Lich Lord, and the nearly invincible Ancient Lich.
* Liches also feature as undead spell-casters in dark robes in the game MU Online.
*In the MMORPG Nexus War a lich is one of the classes characters can take after a certain level.
*In the text-based MUD MajorMud, Zanthus the Lich is featured as the most powerful NPC in the game.
*While not created in the same manner as the traditional lich, Pious Augustus of could be seen as one, as his body and soul were corrupted when he touched one of the three hallowed relics of the Ancients, and transfromed into a skeletal, emaciated monster with vast magical abilities and a keen intelligence (though bound to serve his Ancient masters). He is also referred to in the game as "The Liche". Like many other liches, he had control over the Ancient's undead monsters.
*In , Liches are the second level Undead unit. They are fairly weak rank-and file fighters who have an extremely unreliable death gaze.
*Bane, Horseman of Death and leader of the undead faction in the Warlords series of videogames, is described in Warlords Battlecry III as 'a giant lich riding a chariot'.
*In , Strahan Runeshadow, an evil magician raising dead in Sigil's Mausoleum, wanted to become a lich, but he was stopped (and killed) by Nameless One and his friends.
*In the Might & Magic series, Liches are a class of player upgraded from a Necromancer, or in Might & Magic 7 from a wizard who has allied himself with necromancers.
*In the Chzo Mythos, an amateur adventure game series, Chzo's serveant, the Tall Man was a lich.
*The roguelike computer game NetHack features lich, demilich, arch-lich and master lich.
*The roguelike computer game ADOM features lich, lich king, emperor lich and master lich.
*Ogre Battle and its sequels feature lichs, generally as the most powerful type of spellcaster. They may also be capable of recruiting undead characters.
*In the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms computer game Neverwinter Nights, liches are one of the most powerful undead players can summon.
* The Lich Belpheron plays a key role in the Neverwinter Nights expansion pack Shadows of Undrentide. Though he is never encountered, having already been destroyed prior to the start of the game, the player learns that he was once a scholar of the ancient culture of Netheril, and that he trained the antagonist, Heurodis the Medusa, to be a sorcoress. His severed hand has the power to seek out many powerful magical artifacts. Belpheron appears briefly as an enemy in Hordes of the Underdark (though his name is spelt Balpheron).
* Also in Shadow of Undrentide, the player will encounter the mummified remains of Kel-garas, an undead priest of Jergal, who made himself immortal by binding his soul in a magical rod.
*In the online game Kingdom of Loathing the lihc (sic) is a monster in the Misspelled Cemetary based (loosely) on the lich
*In the online game Clan Lord Liches appear frequently in the Dark Temple and are part of a pirate-like community of non-player characters called "Darshaks."
*The novel Monster Planet features a powerful lich who is the leader of the zombie army.
*One of the bosses inside several versions of the MMOG, "Gunz: The Duel" there is a boss known as a Lich. It is possible to reach this boss by defeating several enemies in an underground/dungeon (as the game names the map) "Quest" match.
*In the Game Boy Advance game , the Lich and Lich+ enemies appear as minibosses.
*In Tales of Phantasia, some enemies could summon a lich that would do damage to the player characters.
*The gimmick of WWE wrestler The Undertaker once involved him being an immortal and virtually invulnerable undead being via a funereal urn that he carried to the ring, which was said to contain the "spirit of the Undertaker" and said to be the source of his superhuman power.
*In the RPG Baldur's Gate 2 and its expansion pack Throne of Bhaal, Liches are frequently encountered as mid to high level monsters, as well as Kangaxx the Demilich (BG2) and an unnamed Demilich in ToB.
* The lich Lyran is encountered as an enemy in . He is destroyed by finding the ossuary beneath his stronghold and shattering several urns containing his mortal remains.
*In the animated series of He-Man, He-man's arch enemy Skeletor could be considered a lich, due to his skull face and magic abilities. In the most recent edition of the animation, a backstory elaborates on Skeletor's origins, explaining he was originally an evil warlord named Keldor who was mortally wounded by King Randor many years ago. In order to survive, he made a pact with the spirit of the ancient overlord Hordak. In return for his life and the power to defeat his enemies in Eternia, he would serve Hordak. This resulted in his transformation into Skeletor.
* Azalin is a very powerful and scheming lich in the Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting of Ravenloft.
*In EverQuest II, Varsoon the Undying is a relatively young lich (only 300 years or so old) who remains in the Chamber of Immortality within the Ruins of Varsoon. While the Ruins are located in The Thundering Steppes, his tomb is on an island off the northwest coast of Antonica. Lucan Dlere, the overlord of Freeport is also a lich.
*The 1997 animated movie Anastasia depicts Rasputin, the main antagonist of the film, as a lich. Because of the terms of the curse he put on Tsar Nicholas II and his family, Rasputin cannot die until the entire royal family has been killed-as long as his reliquary is intact. This, along with his desire for revenge against the Tsar, is more than enough to motivate him to finish the curse by killing Anastasia-and a feirce compulsion to protect his reliquary, a green vial with a skull on top.

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