Talk:Undead/@comment-6529023-20131029024148/@comment-8382145-20131115185157

The only one of those questions I feel confident in answering is #2. I'd have to go with a no, as a phylactery is something of immeasurable value to a lich (a living necromancer wouldn't really have one handy) as it is a totem that holds his very life essence. Forcing the physical (or spectral) forms of the undead inside would be misuse of the device and would prove risky on two accounts... 1: it may interfere with the lich's resurrection after death, and 2: carrying the phylactery around like a carrying case of undead is like offering passersby the means of defeating the caster.

As for the other questions, I might be able to makean educated guess. As far as transforming another incorporeal undead into a wraith goes, it's possible but improbable. An incorporeal creature of undeath is created usually by the means in which it died, but given proper circumstances and the right knowhow, a necromancer might be able to warp the depraved soul into that of a wraith.

The final question is a really good one that requires some thought. I'd say that while it might be remotely possible, it's immensely unlikely. A wraith would have to consciously try to detach itself from its wicked ways, and wouldn't do that of its own free will (as their will is only that which their necromancer will allow). Even if chance would allow it, it would take massive spans of time in tormenting personal reflection to achieve such a reversal of wild evil magic.

Hope this helps.