It would be more appropriate to have liches as future vampires. And why shouldn't they retain their minds? They are alive (judging by Heroes 6). The only difference between vampires and humans is that they are already dead, and also, to sustain their lives, they need blood, apparently any kind:D

No, liches still can't be living mages. It's illogical (:rolleyes:) that mages would become vampires after death :eek:! So, liches should be separate, and vampires should be separate. Although, again, who knows, who knows. And vampires don't need blood to sustain their lives, but food. In general, the undead can do without it (as mentioned earlier, food will fall out between the bones of a bone dragon :D), but in general, they have such a function. Ghouls can eat the meat of killed enemies, and vampires can drink blood. The trick in the game is that thanks to this, vampires restore health! Oh yes, liches should also be dead, since Necropolis is a race of undead!!!

By the way, about vampires. It would be interesting to see that in "Heroes," like in "King's Bounty," they could transform into bats :).

Aziral, the explanation for why the shadow was removed doesn't work, and I'm too lazy to move it myself :(. Could you discuss the undead with us, inserting a link or the information about liches :)?