Prelude to Purgatory - A Lich Custom Skill Tree
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #53 of 113 Gameplay mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Unlock the full potential of your new Lich powers from Classical Lichdom with
Prelude to Purgatory!What is Prelude to Purgatory?
Prelude to Purgatory is an addon for Undeath - Classical Lichdom that provides the player with a brand new custom skill tree. This skill tree comes with 12 new perks, hoping to carve out a unique niche for liches.
The answer is, as intuitively as possible. Whenever you capture a soul or have a creature die near you, you gain experience based on its level. You can open the skill tree by pressing "Tab" while in Lich Form.
What perks does this add exactly?
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[]Magicka Weave
Gain 50 Magicka and 25% Magicka Regeneration, doubled in Lich form.
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]Mirror WeaveYour weave protects you against enemy spell casts, granting you 25% Magic Resist, and occasionally retaliating against enemy spells.
[]Hardened Weave
Your weave increases your armor by 150, and converts incoming physical damage to Magicka damage, while the Weave is active.
[]Supreme Weave
Gain 50% Magicka Regeneration, doubled in Lich form.
[]Transcendence
Gain 25% more experience in Lich form, your Lich form is no longer hated and feared, and your mortal form can be vampiric.
Necromancer
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[]Frozen Cadavers
You may control an additional summoned or reanimated undead. Nearby allied reanimated undead gain 150 Armor and 10% Magic resist, and are empowered when struck by Frost spells.
[]One Body
If you would take physical damage, it is first mitigated among your commanded reanimated undead.
[]Join the March
If an enemy would die within 3 seconds of receiving physical damage from an allied reanimated undead, it is revived under that undead's control.
Lich's Powers
[]Reconstruct Form
You are now able to change your Lich's appearance. Necrotic Rejuvination is 200% stronger.
[]Wraithform
Grants the "Wraith Form" power in Lich fom. At will, become Ethereal and absorb the essence of fallen creatures, regaining 50 Health, Magicka, and Stamina when a creature dies.
[*]Peer Beyond
You see what others cannot, granting you the "Lich Sight" ab
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[]Frozen Cadavers
Prelude to Purgatory adds a new skill tree for Classical Lichdom using the Custom Skills Framework. It's a gameplay mod for players who want to expand their lich character's abilities. With 1,430 endorsements and 2.0M downloads, it's a popular choice. Last updated July 2025.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust: 2.0M downloads and 1,430 endorsements show it's a go-to for lich players.
- Integrates with Custom Skills Framework, so it fits neatly into mod setups that already use that framework.
- Actively maintained—last updated July 2025, so it's likely compatible with current game versions.
⚠️ Cons
- Requires the Custom Skills Framework, so you'll need to grab that dependency first.
- Only adds a skill tree for Classical Lichdom—if you're not playing a lich, this mod does nothing for you.
For players who love playing as a lich and want more depth and customization in their undead power fantasy. If you're already using the Custom Skills Framework, this is a no-brainer. Skip if you're not interested in lich gameplay or don't want to manage extra dependencies.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure you have the Custom Skills Framework installed and load it before this mod in your mod manager.
- Check the mod's forum posts for any known conflicts with other skill tree mods.
- If you're new to modding, use a mod manager to handle the installation and load order automatically.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- SeaSparrow
- Version
- 3.0.0.beta-6
- Downloads
- 1,986,831
- Endorsements
- 1,430
- Category
- Gameplay
- Created
- 8/1/2021
- Updated
- 7/6/2025
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