Anonymous asked: I know this is a fundamental thing to know, but I've searched both the Internet and local libraries and I cannot find any advice on covering up your identity or being presentable in public after achieving lichdom. I need to know this before I take any more steps in the process

This is a question that comes up, in varying forms, a lot more often than I had expected. Sometimes, it’s with the hope of romance, others it’s for things as simple as getting around without attracting a mob.1

There are, fundamentally, three solutions to this problem. The first is to simply ensure that the places you frequent are necromancer-friendly. For example, many people meet friends and start romances in shops! This means you may no longer trawl your local Tesco for the ingredients to your fell sorceries, but realistically you should probably have been supporting your local bokor anyway.

Here is a comparison of the response you’ll get in two similar shops, one of which caters to necromancers:

Another solution is to simply cast a glamour on yourself. If you cannot cast a glamour because of a paucity of talent in the art of illusions, you may be able to employ a local witch to do so for you (witches tend to be skilled in the production of lasting glamours, owing to their natural ugliness2).

The third option is something we’ve talked about before and that we think more necromancers should be open to. In the course of your work, even before you ascend to lichdom, most necromancers will encounter some sorcerous blunder or other that will render them too inhuman for the outside world. You can remedy this by dominating the will of some lesser man.

Once you’ve found your Renfield, you can send him out into the world on your behalf.

If you have insufficient time or strength of will to dominate a man, you may avail of the upcoming NecromAnswers Rent-a-Renfield program, which we will describe at a later date.

1. Since the discovery of arcane wards to keep mould from damaging the animated corpse, mobs have been the number one cause of liche death (see also, redeath/final death). Avoiding a mob is of paramount importance.

2. Some of you will point out that this is an unfair stereotype of witches, however I will not reply to you as you are likely an ugly witch.