Can I have some Lich King head-canons? Like with a village town boy crush who is oblivious to the Undead Kings advances?
Oooooo yeeeeeesss, of course you can!!
- They see you first through the eyes of their undead horde. Which, before you, the horde was going to desecrate and pillage the Town to find fresh bodies for the army and silver/metals for their armour and weapons.
- But seeing you, face flushed from hard labour in the fields. Sweat dripping down that gorgeous body of yours, the Lich just couldn’t bring themselves to destroy YOUR town.
- So, instead, the horde scatters and starts bringing little gifts to you. At first you’re terrified. How else do you react when rotten, shambling corpses chase after you with flowers and little makeshift baskets of goods?
- Confused and terrified, you lock yourself away in your home until the Lich calls back their shamblers. They’d have to think of another way to make you feel safe and accept the little shiny trinkets the Dead leave for you.
- But over the course of a few weeks, the Dead come and go. Leaving they’re gifts and adoring letters from the Lich. The Lich comes to you in nightmares. (That’s all they know. They don’t know how to enter dreams without causing fear.) And you start to understand their intention isn’t to harm you. But to get to know you. Some days you yearned for sleep, to see the haunting figure. Speak with them about your day and possibly, despite it not being real, to hold their skeletal hand.
- When Undead animals come to you in the woods, you don’t immedately strike them with your axe. But instead speak to the Lich about your day. They are unable to talk back. But they stay by your side, guarding you until you return home.
- You’re shunned by the Town after some time though. They chase you from your home with pitchforks and torches. Cursing your name and threating to hang you or drown you in the lake.
- When you arrive on the Lich’s doorstep, trembling and terrified, they comfort you with whispered words and a bony embace as they usher you inside.
- The next day, you could see the town in flames. The Dead crawling over it like rats; tearing viciously at the townsfolk until they either joined the ranks, or were devoured.
- You live out your days within the Keep of the Dead. The Lich King leaves sometimes to destroy and conquer. And they return with treasures and bountiful lands to call your own.