Two related ones first...

1) Are these half-liches now free to advance to hero?
2) Why can't people advance to Hero with necromancers without trying the becoming? Specifically choosing not to take the quest, forgoing your chance to ever do so, but get to hero, and live out your mortal life that way.

Third question is still lich related, but not quite the same vein...I've heard the normal place you receive your lich quest isn't nessecarily the only place to do so. My applicant, way back when liching was new(Drow Master, Kaervek the Lord Adept of Sorcery), had no idea where to start, but picked somewhere he seemed suitable, and was then led to the same place everyone else seems to have received their quest at. To get around to get question though...

3) I've heard there are other being you can negotiate with, to receive a lich quest...is this correct? If so, has anyone made an agreement with one of these beings?


This may be vague to the point of inability to understand, at the last part, but I try to respect Imms having people figure these things out on their own, if they haven't yet, and side with less clarity, than too much.