The God of Liches—Visarrun.
He was a vain, selfish, narrow-minded, calculating deity who haggled over every last detail. Obsessed with all manner of experiments involving life and death, he cared nothing for the fate of those [lesser creatures]. In many ways, he still acted much like a mortal, except that the power at his command was now far greater.
When Visarrun was still mortal, he had been a renegade Red Wizard and one of Szass Tam's chief enemies.
Later, during his research, he received guidance from the Lord of Storms and ascended from mortal to deity using the method the Lord of Storms taught him. But he soon realized that the Lord of Storms merely wanted to create a servant of deity to command and exploit. To that end, he sought help from the [God of Mages], Azuth, and formed an alliance with him, then used the Goddess of Magic's help to thwart Talos's retaliation. Yet afterward, he secretly reconciled with Talos and renewed their alliance, while also beginning to court the favor of Shar, the Lady of Night. Still, until the Time of Troubles erupted, he nominally served the God of Mages—Azuth.
The God of Liches was a classic example of a mortal ascending to godhood.
And the method used to create him as a deity was much like Soren granting divinity and divine rank to create subordinate deities.
The Lord of Storms had wanted to create a servant of deity he could exploit, but the God of Liches proved even more cunning than he had imagined. By leveraging competing interests and feigning cooperation, the God of Liches escaped the wrath of every side and ultimately served the God of Mages in name.
Ghost-Warp Forest.
This was a cursed land.
It had once been an ancient battlefield during Queen