Promise of the Witch-King Comics Shackles of the Past Video Games Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor Referenced only Hellgate Novels The Veiled Dragon.Appearances Adventures Dark and Hidden Ways You can help the Forgotten Realms Wiki by providing more information.Ī dracolich from 3DO's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer (1995). Since then, Sammaster and his followers, the Cult of the Dragon, created many more, preparing for the apocalypse they "know" will come." Notable Dracoliches Īppendix This article is incomplete. But the dead dragons shall rule the world entire." Sammaster's first success was with the great red wyrm Shargrailar the Dark in the Year of Queen's Tears, 902 DR. He was convinced that Toril would suffer a great apocalypse and "naught will be left save shattered thrones with no rulers.
The process of becoming a dracolich was discovered by Sammaster the Mad, a fallen Chosen of Mystra, who was inspired after re-translating The Chronicle of Things to Come by the prophet Maglas. Like other types of lich, a dracolich was only truly annihilated when its phylactery was destroyed. Instead, its spirit fled and hid in the phylactery, awaiting another suitable body to animate and inhabit. When killed in its corporeal body, the dracolich didn't "die". A dracolich had the strange ability to inhabit the body of any reptilian corpse upon death, though they were at their most powerful when inhabiting the corpse of a dragon.