Gains and Losses

The blustery winter wind howled as it passed through his smooth, white bones, reminding him that he had actually made it back into the physical world. A lich like himself had the ability to reconstruct their physical body should it be destroyed, but the process was slow and painstaking, taking anywhere from a decade to half a millennium to complete, if forming the body from scratch. If the lich had set up either a spare corpse, or other resources to utilize beforehand, the time it would take could be drastically reduced.

With so many raw materials graciously donated by the nameless destroyer of worlds, and the overwhelming power granted by the plane his phylactery resided in, he was able to recreate his body in a matter of moments. He had noticed it while inside the soul-plane, the connection between his soul on this plane and between his phylactery in the other had been drastically improved, allowing for vast quantities of the otherworldly energy to surge within his body.