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[chubby2man]

You are a Lich King, one who tore the wheel of life and death and made it a tower for your ambitions. You are dead and yet alive, cursed to wander the world and feel not the wind tousling your hair or the bite into a crisp apple. Either through your will or unlucky circumstance you find yourself a lord of the dark and the evil. Enemies will come for you, rivals to steal your power and the virtuous set to right the world of wrongs. You must find the strength and the cunning to deal with these foes, else you return to ash and dust.

What you do with this power, dark though it may be, is of course up to you.




The initial negotiations were not going as smoothly as you had hoped.


“So you’re saying that you’ll use. . . the undead as labor for our farms and fields?” Headman Habber asked, confusion evident in his eyes. His rough hand kneaded at the back of his neck, dirt caked into the creases of his skin.


“Exactly so! Being tireless and uncaring of their labor, they would make excellent workers.” You explain.

“Well, on top of being rather dark, one might say, what. . . what exactly would we do then, if these skeletons are plowing our fields?” Habber grabs another sack of grain and hoists it onto his wagon as he asks his question. The ox looks at you woefully.


“Well, whatever you want, really. You could use the time to pursue your own interests, or I could always use more skilled hands at the tower-”


Habber tuts at you, barely breaking his stride of heaving another sack of grain in.. “Relocation and job retraining? Folks around here won’t be too crazy for all that.”


“I wouldn’t be forcing them to move to the tower,” you sputter. “ I assure you, I just want to help the people of this village live more fulfilled and vibrant lives.”


You can almost hear Habber roll his eyes at that one.


“Okay, sure. What’s the catch though? Aside from working with some sort of necromancer and being surrounded by walking corpses. What do you get out of all this? And just who do you think you are?” Habber challenges, facing you and crossing his arms.




You shrug your shoulders and tell him:


A-Just a Material Interest: You want a portion of the resources produced by the village. Being a lich, you don’t exactly require their foodstuffs, but you can begin to amass a stockpile for trade or hosting the living at your tower.


B-... And Your Bodies: Only when they die, of course! No need for a rush, just an assurance that when the villagers die, their bodies won’t be consecrated or burned. It's not like they are using them by that point! (Includes Option A)


C-... And Your Souls: Explain that as their local Lich King, their souls would be in much better keeping with you! Their God of Light has so many followers, they don’t care about the little guys anymore. You can give their prayers and pleas all of your attention, giving them the top notch service they can’t get from the big gods. (Includes Option A and B)


D- There is No Catch! Nope, no evil plot here. You just want to help out your neighbors!

E. Or Something Else?

And of course, you inform Habber of your name.
Name:?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hey welcome! This is going to be based roughly on the TTRPG Godbound rules, starting with the Lich King word as an inspiration. We will be making the character over the next couple updates.

[chubby2man]

Spoiler: Tower Status (click to show/hide)

Population ( living): None
Population (dead): One

Cult Status: Non-existent

Economy: Dead. A goat path connects you to a somewhat better traveled dirt path.
Wealth: You have a few coins laying about.

Military: Pretty much just you.

Grandeur: Tower is two stories tall and crumbling. It impresses the occasional peasant.

   

Spoiler: Character Creation/Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Magnimian the Unholy
Level: 2
Appearance: Pale cold flesh, blood but does not circulate.

Resources
Effort: 4/4(Example 2/2 if you are not using any, ½ if you are currently spending 1 Effort)
Influence: 0/3
Dominion: 2
Wealth:4


Attributes
Attribute: Score/+Modifier/Check
Strength:15/ +1/ 6
Dexterity:16/ +2/ 5
Constitution:16/ +2/ 5
Wisdom:16/ +2/ 5
Intelligence:15/ +1/ 6
Charisma:16/ +2/ 5
(Lich King boosts Constitution to 16)
(Truth boosts Wisdom to 16)

Saving Throws
Hardiness:15-3=12
Evasion:15-3=12
Spirit:15-3=12

Hit Points: 15/15
Attack bonus: +4

Armor:Robes (Natural AC of 3-2=1
Weapons:1d10



Facts
-You are a Lich King in Truth.
-You have Seen the Truth and it is broken.

Words:
-Lich King( Natural AC of 3, no need for food/sleep/breath, Constitution Boost)
-Truth (Gain Truthsense, always believed to be telling the truth,  Wisdom Boost)
-Underworld (Gain Spaitial awareness, no need for air/food/water, invulnerable defense against harm from stone, earth, or environmental hazards underground.)

Greater Gifts:
A Heart Apart: You possess a phylactery, excised heart, or other locus for your life, one which can be destroyed by ordinary violence. Unless this phylactery is destroyed, you cannot be permanently killed, and will regenerate from death in 24 hours from your largest remaining fragment. If the phylactery is destroyed, you can remake it, but it will not become effective for six months. You are instantly aware of any destruction of your phylactery, and while you can hide it or guard it, you cannot enchant it specifically to be protected from harm.

Lesser Gifts:
-Ageless Erudition:
 Commit Effort for the scene to know any fact or piece of knowledge, or pass an intellectual attribute check, that a ingenius mortal sage could conceivably do or know.

-Dread Lord
Lesser foe undead in your presence are absolutely obedient to your commands and cannot intentionally harm you. Commands you give them will be obeyed with human intelligence and necro-suicidal devotion until they are out of your presence for at least 24 hours, after which they revert to their usual behaviors. You may attempt to likewise enslave an undead worthy foe as an Action, but the target gets a save versus Spirit to become immune to the gift for the scene.

-Borer Beneath:
You can pass through unworked stone or earth as if it were empty space. If you wish, you leave behind a self-supporting tunnel with a diameter slightly wider than you are tall; as an Instant action, you can withdraw your support of any such tunnel you have made and let the natural environment collapse it.

-Treasures of the Earth
Commit Effort to intuitively sense the location of any metals, gemstones, water, or other substances found below the earth within a radius of 100 feet per character level. You can conjure up to your character level in Wealth points of these things each day. These Wealth points
are not considered natural for purposes of fueling theotechnology or
other magics. Water or other non-precious substances are limited to
a ten-foot cube per level per day.

-Fist of the Grave
 Your unholy, eldritch power grants you a 1d10 magical attack with a 200 foot range. On a successful hit, you may Commit Effort for the scene as an Instant action to gain twice the attack's damage as hit points of personal healing, up to your usual hit point maximum.

-Illimitable Darkness:
Commit Effort for the scene to utterly darken all non-divine lights within one hundred feet per character level for the rest of the scene, creating a zone of perfect blackness. Fires still burn, but they emit absolutely no light, and no new illumination can be created while this gift holds. This radius of darkness moves with you. Worthy foes can save versus Spirit to intentionally create light, but only they can see the light they create. Blind creatures are usually unable to use ranged attacks and roll melee attacks twice, taking the worse hit roll.

Spoiler: Wealth Changes V2 (click to show/hide)

Wealth Rules

I’m going to simplify the wealth rules somewhat. Since our boy can summon vast amount of wealth to hand, it doesn’t make sense on our scale to keep much track of how much exactly we have at hand at a particular time.

Instead, with our gift selection, we will have the wealth act as another form of Influence you can invest in things where it would make sense that having continual financial investment would help.

Your wealth base will be your level X2, and can be added to through adventures.

[Maximum Spin]

C
Name: Magnimian the Unholy

[Sudurandom]

E- Skilled labour.
While undead are tireless workers they are sadly lacking in creativity. By freeing the villagers from the need to engage in brute labour those who are interested can spend time on more skilled endeavours such as blacksmithing, carpentry, or even music and art. Eternity gets boring without new things.

[Kilojoule Proton]

E- Skilled labour.
While undead are tireless workers they are sadly lacking in creativity. By freeing the villagers from the need to engage in brute labour those who are interested can spend time on more skilled endeavours such as blacksmithing, carpentry, or even music and art. Eternity gets boring without new things.

+1

[helmacon]

E- Skilled labour.
While undead are tireless workers they are sadly lacking in creativity. By freeing the villagers from the need to engage in brute labour those who are interested can spend time on more skilled endeavours such as blacksmithing, carpentry, or even music and art. Eternity gets boring without new things.

+1

+2

[Egan_BW]

Name: "Option A"

D, No Catch. It is the duty of the powerful to assist others how we can!

[King Zultan]

E- Skilled labour.
While undead are tireless workers they are sadly lacking in creativity. By freeing the villagers from the need to engage in brute labour those who are interested can spend time on more skilled endeavours such as blacksmithing, carpentry, or even music and art. Eternity gets boring without new things.

+1

+2

+3

[chubby2man]

“. . . the Unholy?” Falia questions with a raised eyebrow. She wears her vestments loosely, and lightly fingers the symbol of the Lightbringer she wore around her wrist.


“Yup, Magnimian the Unholy, that’s his name,” Headman Habber confirms to the priest.


After telling the Headman you indeed only wished to free up hands to recruit as skilled labor, and confirming that you would indeed pay for their retraining and new tools, the Headman brought you with him to see the local priestess to get her stamp of approval.


“It’s a professional title,” you inform them, only slightly defensively.


Falia stares at you.
“I see. Well, your offer is quite unorthodox, but I do admit that it is somewhat refreshing compared to our usual interactions with minions of darkness,” she says.
“No offense intended, of course,” she adds with a slight grin.


You incline your head.
“None taken. I believe that we have more to gain by cooperating together than by fighting with each other.”


The priestess slowly nods.
“Well, as I said this is unorthodox, and generally the temple takes a dim view on necromancy. However, there are. . . provisions we could use, benefit for the public good and easing of burdens for others,”


Falia then points her finger at you.
“No meddling with our souls now, and our bodies stay in the ground where they belong,” she warns.


You raise your hands, black gloves covering your fingers.
“I will do nothing to your people that you do not ask for.”


Falia opens her mouth, then closes it and shrugs. She glances at Habber and gestures at the door. He leaves, his stride purposeful out of the chapel.

The priestess considers you for a moment before gesturing around at the walls.


“I would have thought that you would be unable to enter consecrated grounds, considering your condition.”


You shrug. “An invitation makes it much more bearable.”

You can feel it, an itching light at the corner of your eyes, rubbing raw against you. You aren’t used to feeling sensations, ever since you-


A- You used mighty sorceries to sever your ties to Mortality. (Gain Sorcery Word).

B-You developed your necromancy enough that you mastered Death itself. (Gain Death Word). 

C- You fell into a time paradox on an adventure, and now you find that Time wants nothing to do with you. (Gain Time Word)

D- You were destined to die, your body wasting away from a curse. You mastered it, and stopped the curse from eating away at you. Dying was a minor price to pay to be rid of it. (Gain Entropy Word)

E-Something else?

[Egan_BW]

E - we discovered that we were always dead, and just hadn't realized. (truth?)

[Maximum Spin]

E -- transcended the flesh as a Bodhisattva, remaining behind in the world to shepherd all sentient beings into enlightenment and release them from the bonds of Samsara.

[Glass]

Not going to vote for this yet, but have an option F for consideration:
F- You finished replacing your interior organs with mechanical substitutes, releasing you from the limits of natural evolution.

[NJW2000]

E - we discovered that we were always dead, and just hadn't realized.

+1. We really ought to work out how that happened, one of these days.

[Maximum Spin]

Alternatively, everyone else is already dead, and I'm actually the only one still alive. I decided not to tell anyone because I didn't want them to feel bad about it.
(I still like the Boddhisattva one better, though.)

[Egan_BW]

(angling for something like a word of Truth but I don't actually know Godbound rules. everyone else actually being dead is also good.)