Undead part 3

Lich

The Lich is a very powerful udead creature! 

Often such a creature is the result of a transformation, as a powerful magician or king striving for eternal life uses spells or rituals to bind his intellect to his animated corpse and thereby achieve a form of immortality. It can also have been a Necromancer, a being of powerful magic. Using it to control the dead. 

Liches are depicted as being clearly cadaverous, their bodies desiccated or even completely skeletal. Liches are often depicted as holding power over hordes of lesser undead creatures, using them as soldiers and servants.

Unlike zombies, which are often depicted as mindless, part of a hivemind and/or under the control of some magician, a lich retains independent thought and is usually at least as intelligent as it was prior to its transformation. In some works of fiction, liches can be distinguished from other undead by their phylactery - an item of the Lich's choosing into which they imbue their soul, giving them immortality until the phylactery is destroyed.

Mummy

Mummies are long dead pharaohs and nobles from the Egypt or the Three Niles area, they are bound up in a process called mummification in preparation for the afterlife. Their tombs were often cursed, and it is said that if the tomb is disturbed the mummy will come back to life to seek out the person who disturbed the tomb.

A mummy can be either human or animal.  As an undead a mummy can be controled by a Necromancer!

Necromancer

A being of old and dark magic. It controls the dead and can raise armies of dead beings. A cunning being, magician with immense powers and immense thirst for even more power. 

Necromancers steal the life-force from other living creatures to extent their own and to increase their strength and toughness. Sometimes this power is also known as Voodoo.

-----> To be continued