History Main / Dracolich

** In the fan-made GameMod of the third game, "In the Wake of Gods", the Spectral Dragons can be upgraded further to make them less underwhelming. Those dragons are on par with [[OlympusMons Rank 8 creatures]] in terms of power. One of the possible upgrades is actually called the dracolich, and with the ability to shoot [[SplashDamage plague clouds]] just like a regular Lich, only much more powerful. The other one, the Ghoul Dragon... hoooo boy. It retains all the strong points of the Spectral Dragon and takes them UpToEleven. In addition to being all-around stronger and faster, they reduce enemy morale twice as much as Spectral Dragons do, can still execute an aging attack, and most terrifyingly, [[LifeDrain drain life from living units upon attack]] just like Vampire Lords (themselves a borderline GameBreaker) do. Their low health comparatively to live dragons is not improved, but the vampiric attack allows them to revive fallen members of the stack with utmost ease.

* ''VideoGame/ColossalKaijuCombat'': Prior to its cancellation, ''CKC'' had a CollectibleCardGame spin-off that was used to vote in "Progenitor" monsters that could appear in prospective future games. One of the monsters, Valok, was a four-winged alien dragon who ruled over the planet Galias, but his use of dark magics saw him overthrown and killed by his subjects. The dark magic suffusing his corpse reanimated him into a mindless [[{{Dracolich}} undead monstrosity]] sustained by devouring the souls and agony of his victims, being capable of exhaling a corruptive life-stealing miasma and and ripping open portals to other dimensions.

** The Archdemon in the original game might also count.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': ''GURPS Dragons'' discusses undead dragons in a chapter dedicated to types and variants of draconic monsters. It notes that such beings, and NonHumanUndead in general, are recent fantasy invention, because folkloric undead were a reflection of human fears about their own mortality. They began to crop up in recent fiction because in settings where undeath is a clear thing that exists in its own right it can become difficult to justify why it only affects humans, and because there are few things more intimidating, if in a somewhat excessive way, than an undead dragon.

Often the dragon's classic fire BreathWeapon will be turned into a [[PoisonousPerson poison breath]] or [[GhostlyChill ice blast]] when they become undead.

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** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden,'' one of the few ''Fire Emblem'' games to include monsters as enemies, Draco Zombies are [[BossInMooksClothing very powerful enemy units]] who attack by biting. The bizarre PhysicalGod Duma appears as a slime-covered dragon-shaped being with exposed muscle and bone, best depicted in [[http://fav.me/d4c284a this fanart.]] Unlike most examples, Duma is fully sapient and has a sense of honor.

** ''VideoGame/TearRingSaga'' has Dracozombies, just like Gaiden, and Sacred Stones, they're a BossInMooksClothing.

** ''{{VideoGame/The Legend of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Seasons'':

** Zombie dragons appear in the second and third games.

** 5th Edition's ''Fizban's Treasury of Dragons'' describes hollow dragons, a Good-aligned alternative to dracolichdom pursued by metallic dragons who see undeath as a means to pursue a noble purpose. These dragons undergo a magical ritual to transform themselves into undead, burning away their bodies until they're left as nothing more than hides filled with radiant energy, and become single-minded, eternal champion of their chosen purpose. Most hollow dragons embrace death once their purpose is fulfilled, but some simply pick up a new mission to dedicate themselves to.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', the Draco Zombie class returns as a boss of the second-to-last map, now using a poisonous BreathWeapon known as ''Wretched Air.'' On the penultimate map, there are ''two''. And on the final map, the BigBad may choose to summon these as ''mooks''. Gets worse in the [[BrutalBonusLevel Lagdou Ruins]], where the final map features no fewer than ''seven'' of them. Now you know why you've been saving up all those S-Ranked weapons. Thankfully, [[AntiAir bows are also effective against them]].

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden,'' one of the few Fire Emblem games to include monsters as enemies, Draco Zombies are [[BossInMooksClothing very powerful enemy units]] who attack by biting. The bizarre PhysicalGod Duma appears as a slime-covered dragon-shaped being with exposed muscle and bone, best depicted in [[http://fav.me/d4c284a this fanart.]] Unlike most examples, Duma is fully sapient and has a sense of honor.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden,'' one of the few Fire Emblem games to include monsters as enemies, Draco Zombies are [[BossInMooksClothing very powerful enemy units]] who attack by biting. The bizarre PhysicalGod Duma appears as a slime-covered dragon-shaped being with exposed muscle and bone, best depicted in [[http://fav.me/d4c284a this fanart]]. Unlike most examples, Duma is fully sentient and has a sense of honor.

** Durnehviir from the ''Dawnguard'' DLC states that he is caught "between [[PoirotSpeak laas and dinok]], between life and death", and certainly looks the part. He's a dragon that explored necromancy to the point of selling his soul in exchange for power to the Ideal Masters, the rulers of the Soul Cairn where all souls sacrificed for necromancy end up. During his 4,000-year imprisonment in the Soul Cairn, his body is warped to [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121012041458/elderscrolls/images/2/29/VC-Durnehviir.jpg a rotting skeletal version of his former self]]. The Ideal Masters did keep their promise, though, and granted him powerful necromantic abilities which he uses in combat. After an awesome battle with Durnehviir, the Dragonborn is told that Durnehviir is no longer a normal being and his body can reconstruct itself, which it later does. Out of respect, he then grants the Dragonborn the ability to summon him from the Soul Cairn for a short time, to aid the Dragonborn in battle (which benefits him as well because it grants him even a momentary reprieve from his imprisonment) He's pretty much an ideal dracolich, even if he never technically 'died'.

** 4th edition has multiple types of dracolich (ranging from the plain to fossilized dracoliches to dracoliches who only exist in the plane of dreams), as well as multiple types of zombie dragons, skeleton dragons (the mindless walking dead version of a dracolich), wraith dragons and vampire dragons.

* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'':
** Bone Dragons.
** In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', Zhaitan's lieutenants are all dracoliches. Zhaitan himself appears to be several undead dragons mashed together, with a half-dozen heads and nine wings(the ninth is malformed and useless in flight).

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* The EvilSorcerer in Creator/WilliamsElectronics' ''Pinball/{{Sorcerer}}'' summons some sort of ghostly/skeletal flaming dragons, with only their skulls and bony claws visible.

** Vaarsuvius casts Create Greater Undead on a black dragon's ''head''. However, this is for the express purpose of casting [[spoiler:Familicide on it, thus killing everything that had any familial connection to that dragon]], and she disintegrates it after she's through.

** The original ''D&D'' dracolich is reworked into the "ravener". Raveners maintain their existence by eating souls, which form a protective shell around them as they're digested, and are often created by particularly ruthless dragons [[DealWithTheDevil making deals with very nasty powers]].
** Wyrmwraiths are ghostly creatures that form from the souls of deceased dragons that refused to accept death (as opposed to the ravener's intentional transformation into an undead). They loathe their undead existence, and are consumed with bitter loathing against those that can still walk as living beings -- and especially for still-living dragons.