Lych Hunter - Presupported

Lychhunter: Lychhunters are the Transfigured assassins of the Ironbound. Their clade is entrusted with the sacred task of hunting and capturing select souls for Fer’agosh. The Forge-Ziggurats are powered by bound and transfigured liches, creatures powerful enough to embody the liminal of undeath and the process of transfiguration. A Lychhunter can trace the necrotic scent of a lich across all of Ashmourne. Relentless in the hunt Lychhunters can disperse into smoke to hide in shadows and reconstitute themselfs, can utilize short range flame teleportation to blink in and out of reality in bursts of incandescent light. Their elusive nature allows them to infiltrate a lich’s sanctum for capture using nullification shackles to mute a lich’s spellcasting.  Lychhunters can also drop ember-beacons, allowing for triangulation from the Forge-Ziggurat to allow teleportation into a Lich’s chambers once infiltrated; allowing for instant reinforcement and extraction. The fate of a captured lich is horrific. Bound in nullifying iron, the lich is transported to the heart of the Forge-Ziggurat. There, they are subjected to a binding ritual; first they are entombed in an iron maiden made of nullification iron.  Threads of eternal flame are woven throughout their flesh like circuitry. Then, molten iron is poured within, to encase the lich in scalding agony. The lich’s phylactery is connected to the iron maiden to complete the ritual, turning the lich into a power source that is linked into the Forge-Ziggurat. Necrotic energy creates a feedback loop with the eternal flame circuit; lesser souls are fed to the forge as fuel, burning coal to keep the balance of flame and undeath hot.  The inner sanctum of the Forge-Ziggurat is not unguarded, Lychhunters haunt these spaces as eternal guardians, ready to eliminate intruders and, in the extremely unlikely event that the bound lich is freed, silence and recapture the asset.