Lich Archmage Accepting Skilled Students.

[u/BlackMetalMagi]

I am known to the planes by names uncountable, unspeakable, and unknowable, here I have been called "Bone Pharaoh", so that name will do for you, my students.

As an Arcanist, and a scribe I have have a mastery of the schools of magic. This has had the old imperial title of Archwizard. The spells in my books are older than most in this day and age and have the propper names for spells with direct proper references to the 1st or 2nd edition copies of those ancient tomes.

For the elite students that want to learn from me, a few of the scrolls in my collection are 10th and 11th level transcendent magic for those that can see beyond the bounds of mortal magic. If you can cast such spells you can try to learn what goes into casting them, but be warned that few are willing to pay the cost that comes with them.

Now take a seat and a quill I will lecture and take questions as needed. Assignments will be graded by chance of survival when casting the spell you you inscribe. Good luck!

[u/MastaDon344]

/uw

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Good job with the writing you

[u/DaemonRex978]

[Mokarith] Just curious, what schools of magic are you teaching?

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/DaemonRex978]

Answer: YES!

[u/Cat_Swordsman]

_Raises hand_ 

Amigo, me and my Donkey friend might have taken a wrong turn somewhere. Have you seen a green ogre?

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/Cat_Swordsman]

(CASTS AWAKEN CREATURE AND FOX'S CUNNING ON THE DONKEY)

New Donkey Mage: "Señor, ¿podría dejar a los eruditos con nuestro trabajo?"

[u/Cat_Swordsman → u/BlackMetalMagi]

...

sips leche

Now you have done it. My friend would NEVER have a modicum of intelligence. Turn. Him. Back. 

[u/Platypus_king_1st]

Eve; haha, stuck as a skeleton, sucker

[u/Smil3Bro]

Glad to see my fellows finally doing something besides waiting in their towers for eternity. Mayhaps you are willing to swap a few spells instead, as I do not need teaching.

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/Smil3Bro]

I have ALL spells in the form of scrolls. Using greater wish over the years has made my library at capacity. I am a scribe, so i can prepare you a spell book of what ever you need to cast.

I should ask what you are looking to do, do a transcendent colleague all i must do is pointer finger in a direction within my sanctum's bookcases.

Are you versed in ancient Netheril magic?

[u/Smil3Bro → u/BlackMetalMagi]

Netheril is crude but I suppose if you wish to give I will take anything at all on time magics since those are always entertaining.

Although, I would rather texts on reality manipulation from the Aenur civilization.

As for sending them, just exchange them with my minions in the Fae wilds at the rock with only a colorful name. For security purposes, of course.

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/Smil3Bro]

I have time magic tomes, but its a dry read for little use, if tou want elf magics i have the texts on binding the winds of magic to hosts, and the scrolls of the phoenix king's armor enchantments.

[u/Oswen120]

/uw amazing writing

[u/DivinePsychopath]

Heh... "students."

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[u/Orion_gamer1]

Sign me up

[u/ReikaTheGlaceon]

If you'll excuse me, I've already surpassed my mortal being, what could you possibly teach a fellow lich, though do be aware I have no purpose for your war magic, I need something practical and with true purpose, not just a more extravagant explosion that so many offer up as true high level magic.

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/ReikaTheGlaceon]

Ah, have you mastered the works of Aumvor in the subject of necromancy and epic magic? "Aumvor's fragmented phylactery" spell should be use to you.

Next, a process of linking each fragment to a ritual that uses mortal sacrifices as material components for a greater simulacrum spell. Once you have a framework for Infomorphic consciousness across all your phylactery fragments, you can then link your simulacra as soul husks to occupy each body simultaneously.

[u/ReikaTheGlaceon → u/BlackMetalMagi]

I've heard of the works of Aumvor, yes, but personally I do not have much use for a fragmented phylactery, I have few enemies that wish to hunt me down for any true purposes, I am somewhat of a recluse and prioritize my rune crafting endeavors more than I value any bloodshed, I have undead workers, yes, but it is rare that I ever raise an army.

I suppose I'm looking for something a bit more practical still, I have been having issues with keeping my workers autonomous. You see, I mostly have my workers mining runestone or expanding my cave systems to reach new minerals to harvest, and it's quite dangerous work, but under the conditions, letting the miners keep some semblance of sentience is dangerous for themselves, after all, I've had to replace many pieces of bones of my more unlucky workers with iron or runestone.

Do you perhaps have something to amplify their efficiency while still maintaining their flexibility and lack of pain, perhaps something for the durability of bone?

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/ReikaTheGlaceon]

Dwarf skeletons are the best for mining, but what is just as good is a transmutation spell that turns the iron and carbon in the blood into a metal coating around the skeleton. Almost as strong as dwarf bones.

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

So, you've got all this magic, but you've stuck yourself in a skeleton? No, I don't accept lessons from the incompetent. If you'd like, I do a short course on better immortalities.

[u/Smil3Bro → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

It’s about the aesthetic, something you obviously cannot comprehend, dweeb.

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/Smil3Bro]

What, looking like you're from last millennium? Come on, get a grip on the times. Nobody worth their Library card lets all that useful volume go to waste, especially not in this age of precision casting.

[u/Smil3Bro → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

Ah, you clearly haven’t been enlightened as to how dense one can pack power into a phylactery. Not to mention the might an entire lair filled with magical conduits and stores can field. One doesn’t need to change their form for power, beyond the initial ritual, when they can form all to empower them.

I doubt you even have a tower, focusing as you are on only yourself!

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/Smil3Bro]

I have a ship. It's very functional, and could shred any tower like a furious dragon-god, if I ever tried to.

[u/Smil3Bro → u/Complex_Drawer_4710]

Only a Dragon-God? While powerful they aren’t what would be considered “top of the hierarchy.”

[u/Complex_Drawer_4710 → u/Smil3Bro]

It isn't built as a weapon, and it works better on large areas.

[u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270 → u/Smil3Bro]

Yeah, well, let's say, I have a grenade launcher. Coincidentally, I do. Let's say I pop a shell over to the phylactery. Bam- no more lich. See the problem?

[u/Smil3Bro → u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270]

It would really be a shame for you, and laugh for me, when it bounces right off.

[u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270 → u/Smil3Bro]

Manual detonation. Or I could just use stickies to have further control over the bomb. Point is, no phylactery equals no lich. And I haven't even mentioned the anti phylactery weaponry in circulation. So yeah, don't become a lich.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

Hello I'm a young student (267 years old) and I'm super interested in phylacteries! Can I see yours? Maybe lower the spell barriers so I can play with it?

[u/the_white_typhoon]

For a being so powerful, what do you seek? and what is your ultimate goal?

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/the_white_typhoon]

Goals are for those that lack joy in repetitive action.

[u/the_white_typhoon → u/BlackMetalMagi]

What are repetitive actions if not for achieving goals ?

[u/BlackMetalMagi → u/the_white_typhoon]

When one has become a Lich all that IS becomes actionable possibility and outcome.

Will you feel any different? No. Will it be awesome? YES!!!! Actions are the goal unto themselves.

Magic takes rote actions and relearning all you know over and over each day because of how memory works. You talk about power, but those with power are too preoccupied with all that fills the time in a day.

I have 20 hours a day I work and study. 4 hours meditate in my sarcophagus. I have watched countless smarter philosophers than you be born, gorw old, and die, all in the time I wait for a crystal to grow for the spell that I use to keep my books from ageing.

(Books I might add, that have more beauty in the raw encapsulation of the magical word than you will ever be able to comprehend in 1000 lifetimes of study.)

[u/the_white_typhoon → u/BlackMetalMagi]

Well, you know your stuff o'wise Lich

This guy lacks the intelligent to understand anything you have said

I will leave you to it then. I hope I can come back one day when I am worthy of your apprenticeship.

[u/themoroncore]

Yeah Ive heard about your "school". Why dont you tell them that besides plagiarizing your 1st and 2nd level spell courses, to rank up you need to pay exceeding greater tithes? 

Or how after 4th level you begin to indoctrinate them into worship of Huntokar, who isn't even a death god mind you.

Or how if they want to leave you black mail them with what you learn in you "Soul Auditing Seminars".

You are a HACK and a SCAM. 1 star, I'm happy with some of the people you've killed to use as practice bodies