Phylactery

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Phylactery may refer to:

  • An amulet or charm.
  • English name for Tefillin, a pair of small, black, leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah, which are worn by observant Jews during weekday morning prayers.
  • In the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, an object used by a Lich to contain its soul.
  • Phylactery Factory, the second album by American singer-songwriter Casey Dienel, but the first under the White Hinterland name
  • In Dragon Age, the Bioware-created RPG series, it is a vial of a mage's blood which the Templars use to track the mage.
  • A phlactery is an object which contains the soul of a powerful necromancer allowing him/her to become a lich. In the book sereies Harry Potter, Voldemort was somewhat of a lich and his phylactery were what he called Horcruxes
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