A lurking
Half_baked_alt, unless you want to rp with a walking sack of bones.
Age: Ancient
Date of Death: Between 28 and 30 years after he was born. Depending on how you want to count it. The day he did the ritual. The day his heart stopped. Or the day he became just bones.
Appearance: Look at the last line... He is a skeleton.
Gender: He once was male. That sorta rotted away. So, he doesn't really have a gender anymore, but he'll still say he is a man. Then punch you.
Powers: Not dying and getting kicked out of pantheons. All his other abilities are locked in continuing the ritual he performed since it failed... Well, never completed, but the failure is because it is stuck in a loop.
His Story:
He grew up to a rather poor family before being sold to a master necromancer. This was a common practice back then for a child to be sold into an apprenticeship and necromancy was little more than a mortician for the rich, still being a new magical art.
Thead studied under his master carefully, learning all he could and helping his master's experiments. Neither one was seeking a way to live forever at any time, instead they simply sought to bring a person back at least temporarily from the dead. Their experiments were done on various animals they found dead and they had some degree of success.
Before they could do an experiment with human subjects, the master died. Thead did the rights as his master taught him before he continued the experiments on his own. Eventually, he decided to test a ritual that would allow him to temporarily come back after dying on himself. The experimental ritual ended up turning him into the first liche. From there, his existence became very interesting...