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In the sweet low light of thy face, under heavens untrod by the sun,

Let my soul with their souls find place, and forget what is done and undone.

UNDEAD RELIQUARY is an original fiction series about liches, loss, and the liminal. The following games take place in the same setting: a world where death, for some, is not the end. 

One whose death arouses the hunger of an incomprehensible primordial force may be resurrected as a lich. These sovereign undead are few in number and widely varied in nature. Their Crucible, both realm and resurrector,  is a wound in the fabric of life and death, an egg displaced from space and time whose membrane enshrines their bones for eternity — and its yolk a fathomless well of viscera, providing its desiccated wards with flesh so that they may walk among the living.

The end of a single life may go unnoticed in the grand scope of a mortal generation. But in the aftermath of a miserable human war, one man's resurrection will affect the living and dead alike. 

I HAVE BEEN MORTAL, AND SOME PART OF ME IS MORTAL YET. I AM FULL OF TEARS AND HUNGER AND THE FEAR OF DEATH, ALTHOUGH I CANNOT WEEP, AND I WANT NOTHING, AND I CANNOT DIE. — Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn