Lich lore: Not always 100% accurate, apparently...
Concerning the author comment: So... does that mean that Nate doing this was like throwing a racial slur at someone upon first meeting that person? Ouch, no wonder Baines doesn't like him!
Not much is known about them, even where they can be found...
Yeah, pretty much. He didn't know, but he really hasn't helped to make anything better since. The general implication is lich= concious, skeleton= thing. Of course, terminology doesn't really change how liches are treated in general.
Is skeleton only uh, corpse and a skeleton that is alive is a lich? I guess liches are sensitive to what they are called and I guess I would not call one something like "Hey, corpse!" but skeleton is still just the observable fact!
However, it is their society so if living "skeletons" prefer to be liches because true skeletons are always dead then sure :D
Yeah pretty much! Liches certainly look just like regular skeletons, so that's what people tend to assume they're called, if they don't already know about them.
No lich really enjoys being called a skeleton, but Baines is unusually sensitive about it. There are a few different reasons for that.
Dang, dude! Your environments have improved so much over the course of this comic! Also the second to last panel there made me laugh. Incapable of hurting people, huh? Yeah, I'd be scared, too... Although I'm surprised Sebastian's so chill about talking, walking skeletons. Even if they ARE weaker than the living. :'D
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Concerning the author comment: So... does that mean that Nate doing this was like throwing a racial slur at someone upon first meeting that person? Ouch, no wonder Baines doesn't like him!
Yeah, pretty much. He didn't know, but he really hasn't helped to make anything better since. The general implication is lich= concious, skeleton= thing. Of course, terminology doesn't really change how liches are treated in general.
He offended him once like this but...
Is skeleton only uh, corpse and a skeleton that is alive is a lich? I guess liches are sensitive to what they are called and I guess I would not call one something like "Hey, corpse!" but skeleton is still just the observable fact!
However, it is their society so if living "skeletons" prefer to be liches because true skeletons are always dead then sure :D
No lich really enjoys being called a skeleton, but Baines is unusually sensitive about it. There are a few different reasons for that.
Heheheh. Well I guess he's very good at not reacting to things when he needs to...