[b]I just want to say that I understand how far of a stretch this character is. I am open to discussion for character balancing, and if such a balance cannot be achieved, I'll make a different character. This was simply my most preferred option.[/b]

[h1][u][b][color=0054a6]Adamar[/color][/b][/u][/h1]

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[color=0054a6][u][b]Species[/b][/u][/color]
	Undead (Lich, previously Human)

[color=0054a6][u][b]Gender[/b][/u][/color]
	Male

[color=0054a6][u][b]Skills and standard abilities[/b][/u][/color]
	Highly intelligent and knowledgeable, especially about magic, supernatural creatures/occurrences, and anatomy/medicine. He is also able to craft magical items and magically enhance existing items, armor and weapons.
	Relatively strong and dexterous, but is loathsome to resort to physical combat, showing no signs of martial training.
	
[color=0054a6][b][u]Supernatural/ magical abilities[/u][/b][/color]
	[color=7ea7d8][i][u]Magic[/u][/i][/color]
		As a Lich, Adamar's most potent school of magic is Necromancy. This magic deals with life, death, unlife and the life-force. While a large portion of spells directly deal with undead, other necromantic spells can drain life from the living, grant false life, and channel dark energies. Adamar is also well-versed in other schools, showing a rounded set of magical skills, though with little focus on the magics of life preservation and healing.

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[color=ed1c24][b][i][u]Abjuration:[/u][/i][/b][/color] Abjurations are protective spells. They create physical or magical barriers, negate magical or physical abilities, harm trespassers, or even banish the subject of the spell to another plane of existence.

[color=f7941d][u][i][b]Conjuration:[/b][/i][/u][/color] Each conjuration spell belongs to one of five subschools. Conjurations transport creatures from another plane of existence to your plane (calling); create objects or effects on the spot (creation); heal (healing); bring manifestations of objects, creatures, or forms of energy to you (summoning); or transport creatures or objects over great distances (teleportation). Creatures you conjure usually- but not always- obey your commands.

[color=fff200][u][i][b]Divination:[/b][/i][/u][/color] Divination spells enable you to learn secrets long forgotten, predict the future, find hidden things, and foil deceptive spells.

[color=39b54a][u][i][b]Enchantment:[/b][/i][/u][/color] Enchantment spells affect the minds of others, influencing or controlling their behavior.

[color=00a99d][b][i][u]Evocation:[/u][/i][/b][/color] Evocation spells manipulate magical energy or tap an unseen source of power to produce a desired end. In effect, an evocation draws upon magic to create something out of nothing. Many of these spells produce spectacular effects, and evocation spells can deal large amounts of damage.

[color=0054a6][b][i][u]Illusion:[/u][/i][/b][/color] Illusion spells deceive the senses or minds of others. They cause people to see things that are not there, not see things that are there, hear phantom noises, or remember things that never happened.

[color=92278f][b][i][u]Necromancy:[/u][/i][/b][/color] Necromancy spells manipulate the power of death, unlife, and the life force. Spells involving undead creatures make up a large part of this school.

[color=ed145b][b][i][u]Transmutation:[/u][/i][/b][/color] Transmutation spells change the properties of some creature, thing, or condition.

[b][i][u]Univsersal:[/u][/i][/b] Universal magic focuses on pure magic. There are very little in the way of spells in this school, but these spells can be some of the most potent magic there is.[/hider]
	
	[color=7ea7d8][i][u]Undead Traits[/u][/i][/color]
		Undead creatures are preserved by a mental/magical force, and have no physical life-force keeping them animate, as most creatures do. This protects undead from conditions or requirements that also do not apply to objects (such as needing to eat/sleep/breathe, poison, bleeding, pain, nonlethal damage, etc). [b]*Whether or not this grants protection against The Fog is up to the GM*[/b]
		The process to create undead is invariably evil by nature. As such, undead creatures are harmed by magical or supernatural forces that would restore life to the living (such as a healing spell), but they are healed by forces that drain life from the living (not to be confused with spells that deal damage).

	[color=7ea7d8][i][u]Lich Traits[/u][/i][/color]
		Typical undead creatures are mindless, created and mentally controlled by a necromancer. The Lich, however, is a product of his own sinister desires. Born from a strong magician or political figure who desires power and immortality, a Lich is the mind of such a person, bound to their undead and feted corpse by necromantic means. As such, a Lich maintains its mind, memories, personality and intelligence. However, having a mind means that the Lich is vulnerable to mind-affecting abilities and spells.
		Every Lich maintains his immortality by binding his soul to a trinket of sorts, called a Phylactery. This Phylactery is the source of a Lich's power, and the destruction of the Phylactery is the only way to permanently destroy a Lich. If a Lich is killed while his Phylactery still exists, then his body, mind and soul will simply reform its presence. Without the Phylactery, the Lich will be unable to reform after being killed.

[color=0054a6][b][i][u]Job[/u][/i][/b][/color]
	On his home plane, Adamar served as a court wizard to the king of the lands. However, he now has no method or need to maintain an occupation.

[color=0054a6][u][i][b]Personality[/b][/i][/u][/color]
	[color=7ea7d8][u][i]Neutral Evil[/i][/u][/color]
		Adamar is by no means cruel, sinister, or diabolic. He is called evil by others mostly because of the nature of his existence. Adamar was fully aware of the blasphemy of his transformation into an undead creature. However, he seeks no atonement for his actions. Outside of being a neutral voice in the matters of his companions, he cares not for their well-being. Adamar only seeks to preserve his own unlife, and will gladly do so even if it requires the expense of allies. However, those who he deems highly useful will see an equal amount of utility from him towards their efforts.


[color=0054a6][u][i][b]Biography/ history[/b][/i][/u][/color]
	Before arriving on Mym, Adamar was a court wizard for the king of the realm he lived in. However, his king was by no means benevolent. An oppressive tyrant, his majesty set only the highest taxes upon his subjects, and ordered the beheading of all that opposed him. Adamar was smart enough to not deny any demand made of him, which for the most part was simply to define terms, enchant items, or entertain with visually appealing spells. Occasionally, more specific needs were called for, but for the most part Adamar lived rather well by serving his king.

	One day, his majesty called Adamar for a very unique request. Upon his arrival, Adamar learned of the king's desires for immorality, so that he might rule the lands for the rest of time. Such a tall order required years of research, practice and preparation. This was a condition that Adamar make very clear before getting to work.

	Eventually, Adamar was ready. He approached his majesty in private to inform him of his progress, and arranged a time to perform the ritual. In a horrible turn of events, the ritual failed, and the king was now dead. Fearing for his own life, Adamar decided to try the ritual himself, so that he may survive any repercussions with a well-hidden phylactery.

	After several hours of careful incantation, Adamar had completed the ritual. His life was ripped from his lungs, his heart ceased to beat to the soft rhythm that the living take for granted. And in its place, he felt a surge of negative energy lift his corpse off the floor. He had done it, he had become a Lich.

	The following years would don a great war. With a bounty on his head, Adamar was frequently pursued by knights, paladins and clerics, seeking to slay him and purge his undead soul from their world. However, his hew-found powers over the dead allowed him to fight back with great force, in a war that would last for many centuries to come. Every aspiring hero slain by Adamar's undead forces only joined his ranks, and it would seem that victory would be his for sure.

	However, the reverse quickly became true after the army of the living discovered the holy power of Positive Energy. With this gift granted to them by the gods, they easily destroyed hoards of undead while simultaneously reviving and healing the wounds of living soldiers. In a final resort to avoid destruction, Adamar weaved the mightiest spell he could muster. And with it, he stepped through the gaps of space and time itself to escape the world he once knew, in favor of a separate plane of existence.

	In only a few short moments, Adamar found himself on the dull beaches of Mym...

[color=0054a6][u][i][b]Equipment[/b][/i][/u][/color]
	Taking with him only what he could hold in his final moments in a battle-scarred kingdom, Adamar has little in the way of supplies. Other than his robes, he keeps a mask to hide his rotted face, a tome within which his spells are written, and his phylactery.

	The phylactery is contained within a small leather pouch, with leather straps tied to the top that allow opening and closing of the pouch, as well as securing the pouch to a belt or wrist. The phylactery itself is a small sheet of parchment, and written upon the parchment is a fell contract of death written and signed by Adamar. The contract is written and signed in a sinister language of the dead, called Necril. This paper is carefully rolled and stored in the pouch.