Talk:Ainz Ooal Gown/@comment-180.191.131.63-20150805213427/@comment-94.254.21.245-20150808122738

It's a nice thought and may well be true, alot of the race lvls are as mentioned race specific classes so to speak. It can also be seen as advancements within their own races.

On the Phylactery part however I think your going at it wrongly Overlords author have again and again shown that he is strongly inspired and has taken alot of his info from Cthulu Mythos. This is also almost 100% confirmed in that Ainz say's that to become a Lich one needs to use the Necronomicon which is the item one needs to use in the Cthulu Mythos to become a Lich. In the Cthulu Mythos Liches works different from the normal D&D approach. The main part is their complete lack of Phylacteries.

To become a Lich in the Cthulu Mythos one would use the Necronomicon together with an extensive ritual and alot of magic power to transfer oneself into a new body that in the proccess would be made a Lich body. Pretty much Cthulu Mythos Liches works by creating a Lich body and then transfer your own soul into it and thereby becoming a Lich yourself. Compared to D&D Liches they have no weakness like a Phylactery and to be honest in a game having a weakness like a Phylactery would A) Suck since if it broke you would be permanetly dead. B) Be cheating since you would be immortal unless it was destroyed.

So my guess is that the red ball in his middle is his soul after his body transfer. Still in the Cthulu Mythos Liches were thought to be immune to anything not magical and weaker magic was also ineffective which could explain his invalid attacks and magic against weaker kinds.