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Liches, also known as Wizards were an enemy class introduced and appearing solely in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. They were Undead creatures and bore a distinctive horned appearance with several colored variants. Typically liches would hang back and fire projectiles at Kain, but later variants could also summon other enemies - making them dangerous combatants.

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Liches were an enemy classification appearing in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and one of the most frequently seen forms of Undead enemies. Visually they appeared as floating, humanoid entities with an extended snout, glowing eyes and with a set of long horns on their heads. Their clothing was typically colored along with their skin and seemed to consist of layers of bandages with ribs sticking through like armor.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

Liches were notable for their frequent use of homing projectiles which could quickly overcome Kain if not properly prepared. They were also proficient in summoning lesser undead to aid them and were know to summon skeletons and other liches. Much like gypsies and knife-throwing brigands, liches are dangerous at a distance with varying spellcasting abilities.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

Formidable foes, they take three blasts of an energy bolt or up to seven swings of a sword to kill. The mace does not stun them and is useless against them. The best strategy is keeping a distance and staying out of the range and striking them down with projectiles.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

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Several Liche variant enemies are seen in the game. These are generally distinguished by their color and their summons:

char0154 (Lich)[]

Liches - also known as Orange Liches, Red liches or Orange Wizards are the most numerous of the liche classes and arguably one of the most numerous classes in the game.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

Typically these liches attack by rapidly firing blue homing projectiles that explodes on impact with substantial kickback. This is incredibly dangerous when in a room with melee enemies or near environmental hazards. Like other liches and undead the Orange liches bore Black blood but it was nearly impossible to drink from them as they would explode into a purple flash when defeated - although some methods would see them explode into a mess of purple organs and entrails along with blackened blood.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide]

Like the other Liche classes, the Orange liches were not necessarily the hardiest enemies faced - with a moderate endurance (15 points) and fairly low attack power (10 points) but their frequent projectile attacks made them dangerous, especially when faced as part of a group or when surrounded by environmental hazards such as Spike pits - as the knock back of the projectiles would often push Kain into other hazards.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

The class were present inside the Energy Bolt Dungeon, Repel Dungeon, Inspire Hate Dungeon, Bone Armor Dungeon, Mist Form Dungeon, Blood Gout Dungeon, , in Avernus city, in the Hell realm, inside Vorador's Mansion, at the Termogent Forest outside Vorador's Mansion and at the secret Nachtholm megaliths. They could also be summoned by Lich Summoners.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

char0155 (Lich Summoner)[]

Lich Summoners - also known as Purple Liches, Wizards or Orange Wizard Summoners - are another class of liches. Uniquely they were able to summon lower class orange liches to aid them in the attack. They appeared to be able to summon a blue projectile, but this was rarely seen in practice and they generally relied upon other liches to attack, preferring to teleport away from combat. Like other liches the liche summoners bore Black blood but it was nearly impossible to drink from them as they would explode into a blue flash when defeated - although some methods would see them explode into a mess of blue organs and entrails along with blackened blood.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

Like the other Liche classes, the purple liches were not necessarily the hardiest enemies faced - with a decent endurance (25 points) and an unclear attack power - as they did not directly attack themselves - but their summons of liches with frequent projectile attacks made them dangerous, especially when faced as part of a group or when surrounded by environmental hazards such as Spike pits, as the knock back of the projectiles would often push Kain into other hazards.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

The class appeared inside Vorador's Mansion and in the Hell realm of Avernus Cathedral.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide]

char0015 and char0169 (Dark Liches)[]

Dark Liches - also known as Wizards or Skeleton Summoners were arguably the rarest of the liche classes. They uniquely summoned sword wielding skeletons to battle and fired fast moving green homing projectiles - but were also able to teleport away from battle. Like other liches and undead, the dark liches bore Black blood but it was nearly impossible to drink from them as they would explode into a green flash when defeated - although some methods would see them explode into a mess of green organs and entrails along with blackened blood.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

Like the other Liche classes, the Dark liches were not necessarily the hardiest enemies faced - with a moderate endurance (15 points) and fairly low attack power (10 points) but their frequent projectile attacks made them dangerous, especially when faced as part of a group or when surrounded by environmental hazards such as Spike pits, as the knock back of the projectiles would often push Kain into other hazards. Their ability to summon further enemies to battle made them worth being cautious around.[Blood Omen][Blood Omen strategy guide][1]

They could be found at the Bone Armor Dungeon and in Mortanius's boss battle. Two different character models make up the Dark Liche variants, but they appear to be visually and functionally identical, with the only distinction being that one variant is present in the level, while the other seems to be 'summoned' by Mortanius.[Blood Omen]

Notes[]

  • Liches have a variety of names is official sources. the Silicon knights FAQ offers "liches" as the primary name of the orange/red variant found in the Energy Bolt Dungeon.[2] The Crystal Dynamics guide uses a variant of this offering "red liches" for the same class.[3] The official strategy guide meanwhile refers to the orange/red variety as "Orange Wizards" and later on refers to grey varieties simply as "wizards". This is further complicated by other listings in the guide which refer to them by their summons - these label the grey as "skeleton summoners" and the purple as "orange wizard summoners".[Blood Omen strategy guide] At the Legacy of Kain Wiki we have elected to remain consistent with the "Liche" overarching classification. Some fan guides have been know to use "Spirit" or "Gog" as an alternative.[4][1]
    • In game files, the Orange liches are labelled as "char0154" and the purple as "char0155". The two dark liche classes are labelled as "char0015" and "char0169" respectively but it is difficult to tell which is which and there appears to be little to distinguish the two classes. It is presumably likely that one class is used in the Bone Armor Dungeon and the other in Mortanius's boss battle.[Blood Omen]
  • Liches are one of the enemy classes whose close up appearance can be observed in pre-release renders which depicts the dark liches with red eyes, green glowing hands and a particularly distinctive snout-like face design.

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