Quote Originally Posted by Ghostwheel View Post
The way that I read the Monster Manual ("a magic phylactery in which the character stores its life force.") has always meant: destroy said phylactery, no more lich. So what if he said his soul wasn't there? That could easily be a lie.
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Redcloak buys Xykon's logic. And between the two of them, they really should know.