After reading
The Lords of the Night: Liches and
Dweomercraft: Lich, I was inspired to incorporate those portrayals into my developing campaign setting. This gives liches of varying shades of morality on opposing sides.
The former introduces "Arcane Liches" as servants and guardians of Creation, the primordial force of dreams and imagination; they oppose the Void, the primordial force of destruction and evil. The latter introduces "Lords of Sorrow" as a detailed exploration of the evil liches typical of fantasy worlds: here they are explained as open wounds in reality itself that taint everything in their presence and subsist on souls.
As I explained in previous posts, my setting streamlines the nine alignments into four allegiances of Cosmos (aka Creation), Chaos (aka Void), Order and Discord. It is easy enough to associate the Arcane Liches with Cosmos (or Discord, or Order) and Lords of Sorrow with Chaos.
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