agrebe wrote:
Are we sure that python is a lich? Who investigated him for this, and do we trust them? (I know he also claimed to be one, but I don't really believe python's claims anymore.)
Originally dylanhen claimed that python used "necromancer command" on lotta, which python did not deny.
There are some reasons that I believe that phylactery exists:
(1) thematically. So far there has been no contradiction to the concepts of how mythical creature usually work, and liches storing their souls in phylacteries make perfect sense.
(2) game-balance. It doesn't make sense that it takes two or more lynches to kill a person, since town has only seven lynches to use, and wasting two lynches on the same person is just plain bad. It is very possible that lynches just straight up doesn't work at all, and destroying phylactery or using kaboom is the only way to kill him.
These are probably not the strongest arguments that could be made but I hope that they are reasonable.