Lich (disambiguation)
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Lich was originally an Anglo-Saxon or Middle English word meaning body
Body
With regard to living things, a body is the physical body of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death...

, corpse, or cadaver
Cadaver
A cadaver is a dead human body.Cadaver may also refer to:* Cadaver tomb, tomb featuring an effigy in the form of a decomposing body* Cadaver , a video game* cadaver A command-line WebDAV client for Unix....

. It survives in such terms as lychgate
Lychgate
A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, or as two separate words lych gate, is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard.-Name:...

, the traditional roofed gatehouse of British churchyards, where the deceased (and the pallbearers) rested before the burial service.

In the fantasy roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons, a lich
Lich
In modern fantasy fiction, a lich 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 animated corpse and thereby achieve a form of immortality...

is a kind of undead sorcerer. The usage has spread to other roleplaying and computer games and to fantasy fiction in general.

It can also refer to:

Places

  • Lich, Germany
    Lich, Germany
    Lich is a town in the district of Gießen, in Hesse, Germany. It is situated 12 km southeast of Gießen.-Constituent communities:Besides the main town, which bears the same name as the whole municipality, Lich is divided into the following communities:...

    , a town in Hesse
  • LICH, Long Island College Hospital
    Long Island College Hospital
    Long Island College Hospital is a teaching hospital situated at Hicks and Amity Streets in Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, New York.Founded in 1858, the hospital has 506 beds. In 1860 it introduced the practice of bedside teaching and it later became the first U.S. hospital to use stethoscopes...

    , in Brooklyn, New York

Fiction

  • Lich (Dungeons & Dragons)
    Lich (Dungeons & Dragons)
    In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the lich is an undead creature; a spellcaster who seeks to defy death by magical means.-Dungeons & Dragons :...

    , the original application of the term for undead sorcerors
  • Lich (comics)
    Lich (comics)
    Lich is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe whose first appearance was in Force Works #6 as a member of the Mandarin's Avatars....

    , a Marvel comics character
  • Lich, a recurring summon in Final Fantasy
    Final Fantasy
    is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Enix . The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science-fantasy role-playing video games , but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise...


See also

  • Lychgate
    Lychgate
    A lychgate, also spelled lichgate, lycugate, or as two separate words lych gate, is a gateway covered with a roof found at the entrance to a traditional English or English-style churchyard.-Name:...

  • World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
    World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
    World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, often referred to as WotLK, WLK or Wrath, is the second expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft, following The Burning Crusade...

  • List of fictional liches
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