#lich!emmrich

[containment-zone-art]

[ID: Digital painting of Lich!Emmrich, black background, holding a bouquet of lilacs and wearing a black veil. The tips of his crown poke through the veil. His glowing eyes are the only visible light source. /End ID]

Corpse Bride

When the Mourn Watch presented Lich!Emmrich, was anyone else reminded of a bridal procession?

[doomednarrative]

By the light that rises, return and speak!

[oni-ino]

"...I can't say if the flowers would still hold their bloom for me" 🪻

[woundedsoul12]

A Word with Friends

Thanks @hedwigoprah for the game and @notyourmamasdeerbat for the tag and hosting!

I'm still... bleg. And I have gotten a ton of tags but not tracking everyone down sorry. But anyway I may have an idea for Emmrich week with this word

Deliquesce

verb - (of organic matter) become liquid, typically during decomposition. - Chemistry (of a solid) become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air.

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Emmrich approached the high dais, his glamor firmly in place as he took in the painful sight. His love, his Marina, ten years older but no less beautiful. Perhaps there were a few more gray strands to her flowing raven hair. A few more wrinkles at the corners of her blue eyes as she shed tears for the dearly departed. But still she carried the same intense fire she always had as she held Teia close while both elven women sobbed. She was a commander at the head of a ship set adrift. A mast with no sail as she reached out to let her fingers drift across the high polish surface of the coffin beside her. A curse uttered in Antivan as her eyes never left the still form of the king. “Pendejo, how could you…” she uttered softly as she reassured Teia with gentle strokes to her hair. Both women lost in their sorrows as they clung to each other in these tumultuous seas. “My ladies–” Emmrich bowed before the Talons as he tried to act neutral. Like his heart wasn't torn in twain by both the occasion and the sight of one he had once loved so dear. “Emmrich, thank you for coming.” Of course it was Teia that greeted him, in her diplomatic way. Plastering a soft smile on her perfectly painted lips as she tried to hide her tears. While also taking a step in front of Rook who looked incensed at his presence alone. “Of course. I am always here for my dear friends.” He tried not to let the words friends sting so hard. It was long past time he got over his relationship with Rook ending,and yet he could barely tear his eyes away from her as Teia cleared her throat to get his attention. “He would have trusted no one else,” she said as her gaze darted over to the late king laid in state for his people to see. Emmrich swallowed hard at the weight behind her words. As much as he had disagreed with the man over the years, they had grown to have respect in time. “I am honored,” he replied with a reverent bow of his head. “I will ensure he stays perfectly as he is. Time will not deliquesce his body, or his legacy. Of that you have my word."

[senior-mourn-watcher]

Ok so I turned up the brightness a lot and took a peek

Those ribs on the inside are definitely not bone. Seems to be just armor around the bone—which makes sense. But... Ribs don't sit like that... So now I'm thinking—especially since they are wider now— that during the process they... "bloomed" his ribs out? There are plenty of skeletons and bodies that have been autopsied/processed normally by Mourn Watch standards so... WHY

Like yes, it looks cool and I guess it was done post-mortem otherwise OW... But also...

Is it just to look cool? I mean it's awful armor if you think about it. Gold isn't very great defensively wise.

The "spine" part is sitting in the middle, so it's not replacing his bone or anything that I can see. I rather like that headcanon though.

Also this is a recolor mod—it's not too far off vanilla but obviously need to look again without the mod enabled—But I was going off of texture and shape rather than color anyway.

[samsincerely]

so do you guys think romanced Emmrich is actually going to handle rook dying appropriately as a lich be honest

[starfleetteddybear]

Both of them keep their grave gold on in all my fics. Especially my lich fic. Except his crown. Sometimes Rook gets to wear it. 😘🔥🔥🔥

[love-and-death-s]

re: making Emmrich a Lich

OK so I've heard a lot of people engaging with Emmrich's questline stating that choosing Lichdom doesn't have him directly address his fear of dying. I've even heard that Lich!Emmrich is his BAD ending (and people equate it to Gale choosing godhood in BG3, which full disclosure: I personally think this is a major stretch).

But I disagree. Emmrich literally tells Rook that the thing holding HIMSELF back from fully pursuing Lichdom is that he can just die. Like, another Watcher would kill him (Vorgoth), and the process would insert his soul back into his body and that is how he would be granted immortality, but there's also a chance he'd die and not come back at all. So, with that, it would mean that choosing Lichdom DOES force Emmrich to come to terms with the fact that he may die, because that's how becoming a Lich works.

People also say that Emmrich's fear of dying is transferred to a romanced Rook when he states he is afraid he'll have to mourn them forever. I can see where that's coming from, but it's more of a new fear he has. Cause he's already lost Manfred, and he's making his own peace with the sacrifice of losing him to gain Lichdom. (Yes, he cries in his room but like, that's what grief is? It's a journey to acceptance, and even then grief can be complicated. Like, it's sad do not get me wrong and I love Manfred dearly, but I would be MORE concerned if Lich!Emmrich was NOT crying or mourning Manfred's death).

AND even if you do save Manfred, the fight before Ghilan'nain is STILL Emmrich showing this fear that he'll die and that he'll die before Rook will, and their age difference. So, with either choice, Emmrich either faces death and then becomes a Lich, or he lives his life having to make peace with the fact that he's going to die eventually. Either choice is hard to do, but both still fulfill the need for him to face his fears IMO?

IDK I'm probably not the only person to bring this up, but like I genuinely want to hear people's thoughts on Lich!Emmrich (outside of the bone daddy stuff LOLLL) because for my fic, I'm GENUINELY torn as to what to do with keeping him mortal or making him a Lich.