Exethanter’s phylactery (Curse of Strahd p. 189) can be destroyed merely by taking 20 radiant damage from a single source. In Dead in Thay, reprinted for 5e in Tales of the Yawning Portal, p. 163, the phylacteries can only be destroyed by first disrupting the arcane energy of the sepulchers in which they are held.
Does a lich die if it’s phylactery is destroyed?
Destroying the phylactery doesn’t kill the lich, but only makes it possible to kill the lich, since with the phylactery intact, a slain lich simply re-constitutes at their phylactery: When a lich’s body is broken by accident or assault […] within days , a new body reforms next to the lich’s phylactery […]
How does a lich make a phylactery?
First, a prospective lich must cast the spell enchant an item on the object. If this worked, this was followed by trap the soul. If it was successfully made receptive to a soul, the would-be lich cast magic jar on the object, thereby making it the phylactery.
What happens to a lich if its phylactery is destroyed?
tl;dr the sugar or salt crystal is destroyed leaving the lich without a phylactery or the phylactery is at the mercy of the ocean. Tossing a salt or sugar crystal into water dissolves it and destroys the crystal. If the phylactery was the crystal, then it is destroyed. The lich does not die immediately, but it is then without a phylactery.
What happens if a piece of salt is a phylactery?
When you smash something, the parts of it all still exist. Scientifically, when you burn something, the ashes still contain the same atoms of the thing. If a dissolved phylactory counted as still existing, then those scenarios should still count too, and it would be an odd outcome. Would I even be able to make a piece of salt a phylactery?
What happens to a phylactery in the Forgotten Realms?
However, a phylactery could be any number of things, such as a ring or amulet. If a lich’s physical body was destroyed, it could regenerate where its phylactery was located over a matter of days. However, if the phylactery itself was destroyed, then the lich could not regenerate and would remain destroyed.
What do you call a caged dracolich phylactery?
A caged dracolich phylactery. A phylactery (also sometimes called a jar) was the name given to the repository used to store the life force of a lich. A cleric or mage had to create such a phylactery in order to become a lich, and it was necessary for the lich to maintain its undead state and escape being destroyed.
