This way, when the lich’s body is destroyed, the soul would then return to the Soul Vessel and not the bindstone. It would then take 7-14 days for the lich’s corporeal form to manifest again.
To pursue lichdom, you aren’t an entirely sane person
Maybe not the weak sanity your foolish, pathetic morals would dictate, but a true sanity where the human condition has no place! Mawhahaha! MAWHAHA! *cough cough* Anyway... nicely written. Its a shame this isn't a viable option for PCs though.
how might we call a person that has palemaster levels?
How does it manifest again? If the body is destroyed, how is it undestroyed? Is it part of the magic involved with becoming a lich? Does it reform in a certain place, maybe beside the soul vessel? Or does it reform wherever it was destroyed? Do the old pieces need to be gathered, or do they magically poof to the place of reformation, or do new bits magically poof from nowhere to form a brand new deteriorating body?
Is "soul walking" something anyone can do, or just liches? For any of our characters, the soul is tied to the body by the soul strands. If they die, the magic of the bindstones hooks the souls and bodies together again, as long as there are intact strands. When a lich's body is destroyed, the soul goes to the soul vessel, from which it apparently goes "walking" to get back into its body. Is there some magic between the two that make that possible, and that is actually the only "movement" permitted? So it would effectively teleport from the soul vessel to the body?
I'm curious because without some sort of magical restrictions, why bother with the old body at all (assuming the guy didn't have really pretty bones or something)? If the soul can exist outside the soul vessel and outside its old body, it can go wherever and be pretty well undetectable. Maybe that PKE meter from Ghostbusters could find one, but those aren't available around Layonara. And if there's no special affinity for the old body, why not possess any corpse whenever a body is needed?
I'm also curious because the answers to some of these questions could affect lich hunting. Where and how the body reforms could be pretty important. If it needs the old pieces of its body to reform it, for example, but some of the pieces can be placed in an anti-magic area before they can poof away, would the lich be able to reform at all? If it doesn't need the pieces of its old, destroyed body, doesn't that make lich magic more powerful than bindstones since it would be creating a new body?
What's the difference between a lich and a palemaster?