After his defeat, Lich's body was preserved and entombed on his secret redoubt, Umber Loc. It was there that, for many thousands of years, his body was guarded faithfully by generations of the Red Hand until the efforts of the witch Ulla Fey saw him resurrected into a powerful, near-immortal being. Having returned to the realm of the living, Absom Lich raised an army of undead warriors and launched a renewed war on the galaxy, intending to destroy all life and replace them with the living dead.