 The banelich, a version of the lich created by the god Bane in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, first appear in the "Ruins of Zhentil Keep" boxed set (in the Monstrous Compendium booklet) in 1995, and then appears in the "Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three" (1996).The Suel lich for the Greyhawk campaign setting was introduced in "Polyhedron" #101 (November 1994), and then appeared in "Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Two" (1995).The inheritor lich for the Red Steel campaign setting first appeared in "Red Steel Savage Baronies" (1995), and then in the "Savage Coast Monstrous Compendium" (1996).