In Whispers, the Lich describes himself as "the ceaseless wheel; the last scholar of GOLB.”
What’s that mean? Our grasp on what GOLB even is is… nebulous. Finn bounced off of GOLB’s tongue after he died in Puhoy.
GOLB “took” Magic Man’s wife, and when Magic Man made a Prismo wish to get her back, the wish failed. Prismo conjured a trashbin instead.
GOLB’s existence as Finn passed on from his Puhoy life suggests that he’s sort of an arbiter of death. He visibly opens his mouth to eat (?) the deceased Finn, before Finn somersaults away towards his real life. And the Magic Man situation suggests that GOLB’s position outranks Prismo’s. Prismo can’t supersede GOLB’s decision to ‘take’ Margles.
Whether that means that GOLB is Prismo’s boss, or that GOLB is a force that Prismo’s boss opposes, is yet to be determined. But GOLB outclasses Prismo, 100%.
So, the Lich being a scholar of GOLB means what? He’s an unceasing agent of destruction? We knew that already. That’s the Lich’s whole deal. And Whispers isn’t even the first time the Lich has described himself with a wheel analogy.
But another connection we can draw between GOLB and the Lich is supported by this other notable sentence the Lich says in Whispers:
You ever stop to think about that one? How the Lich just casually states a sort of cosmic knowledge of different timelines? This Lich hand doesn’t even originate IN our universe, but it acknowledges having been defeated by Finn. The Lich hand wasn’t even witness to being defeated in its own timeline! It was severed before Farmworld Lich was even defeated!
So, like GOLB, the Lich is an entity completely divorced from the concept of time, space, and causality. His spirit enters timelines at the pivotal event of the Mushroom bomb, and he begins - or rather, resumes - his mission to Spread Everywhere, Kill Everyone, and End Everything.
Consider how the Lich refers to Sweet Pea this entire episode. He calls Sweet Pea ‘the vessel’. Sweet Pea isn’t the Lich, so much as he was the Lich’s host - the conduit through which the Lich entered this timeline. Just like how Jake was the vessel through which the Lich entered Farmworld. That is the nature of the Lich.
The Lich cannot be defeated by destroying any of his bodily forms. He always appears somewhere, and, apparently on behalf of GOLB, executes his ordained mission of destruction. Sort of like a wheel, I guess.
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