Ok so I have this big sexy hook for my D&D story, and want to know if there is a way that I can do this while still following the rules.

The history for this, is that 100 years in the past in my campaign, there was a powerful wizard named Egan. He ruled over a group of pure evil named The Black Hand, and was stopped in the past by the five glorious heroes (my parties old heroes).

I wanted Egan to make a return as a form of lich, is there a possible way? I would try and base it around some of the descendants of the original Black Hand are trying to bring back to life the 100 year old corpse of their former leader in a form of ritual or other legal mechanism.

The group that is attempting this is level 8, with a few members at level 10. However, they have enough gold/resources to be able to fund anything they require that they don't currently have. Egan was not originally a lich, but I would like to see if there is a way to bring him back and then turn him into a lich.

Okay, so I have this big sexy hook for my D&D story, and I want to know if there is a way that I can do this while still following the rules.

The history for this is that 100 years ago in my campaign's past, there was a powerful wizard named Egan. He ruled over a group of pure evil named The Black Hand, and was stopped in the past by the five glorious heroes (my party's old heroes).

I want Egan to make a return as a form of lich. Is there a possible way? I would base it around the idea that some of the descendants of the original Black Hand were trying to bring the 100-year-old corpse of their former leader back to life in a form of ritual or other legal mechanism.

The group that is attempting this is level 8, with a few members at level 10. However, they have enough gold/resources to be able to fund anything they require that they don't currently have. Egan was not originally a lich, but I would like to see if there is a way to bring him back and then turn him into a lich.

Ok so I have this big sexy hook for my D&D story, and want to know if there is a way that I can do this while still following the rules (so that I can make sense of it)

So I will some story for it, 100 years in the past in my campaign, there was a powerful wizard named Egan. He ruled over a group of pure evil named The Black Hand, and was stopped in the past by the five glorious heroes (my parties old heroes)

I wanted Egan to make a return as a form of lich, is there a possible way? I would try and base it around some of the ancestors of the original black hand are trying to bring back to life the 100 year old corpse of their former leader in a form of ritual, is this possible at all? or is there a way around it...

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Adding more information The average level of the group that is trying to resurrect him is level 8, with few members at most level 10.

They have enough gold to fund anything that they would require He originally wasn't a lich, I want to see if there is a pre-made ritual to retrieve a soul from where a soul goes when an enemy dies and to place it into a body... sort of like creating a lich from an already dead creature

Ok so I have this big sexy hook for my D&D story, and want to know if there is a way that I can do this while still following the rules.

The history for this, is that 100 years in the past in my campaign, there was a powerful wizard named Egan. He ruled over a group of pure evil named The Black Hand, and was stopped in the past by the five glorious heroes (my parties old heroes).

I wanted Egan to make a return as a form of lich, is there a possible way? I would try and base it around some of the descendants of the original Black Hand are trying to bring back to life the 100 year old corpse of their former leader in a form of ritual or other legal mechanism.

The group that is attempting this is level 8, with a few members at level 10. However, they have enough gold/resources to be able to fund anything they require that they don't currently have. Egan was not originally a lich, but I would like to see if there is a way to bring him back and then turn him into a lich.