Talk:Necromancy/@comment-24.204.220.13-20120607004342/@comment-4536066-20120607013453

I'm not an expert on wraiths, but I'll take a stab at this. I quick googled "wraith," and the first few results claimed that a wraith is basically what you get after you (magically/ritualistically) kill your body and the remaining spirit manifests physically. Since spirits don't age like natural bodies do, that's where the immortality comes from.

So, assuming that assumption is correct, you couldn't create a phylactery. A phylactery is the item that holds the necromancer's spirit once it has been separated from his physical body and prevents him from dying even if his body is broken. In the case of a wraith, his spirit is his physical manifestation, so if a wraith were to create a phylactery, he would basically be imprisoning himself in the item. He already killed his body, so with the spirit bound to something, there's nothing left to actually be him, walking and talking around.