Lilian Voss (v5.0 Rework) by Therson

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Lilian Voss (v5.0 Rework)

By: Therson
Last Updated: Dec 3, 2025
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Lilian Voss (v5.0 Rework)

Necromancer Hunter

"I'll never stop hunting your kind, necromancer. NEVER."


Lilian Voss once sought out revenge for her newfound state of Undeath. After a long journey of acquiring two enchanted Runeblades through...dark methods, Lilian was finally ready to take down Darkmaster Gandling. However when the tables were turned and she was forced to fight those who helped her, she begged the Heroes who invaded Scholomance to leave her to die, with shame in her unbeating heart. 

As her body lay there, spirit still floating around, she felt something draw her soul. She awoke to find herself back in her undead body, good as new. Why was she cursed so? An even better question crossed into her mind; where is Scholomance. She stood, Runeblades in hand, looking to fight her way back to rip out Gandling's black heart through this Nexus. 

She will have her revenge.

About

Those who have played through World of Warcraft will more than likely remember the unforgettable Lilian Voss, especially if you played and leveled an Undead characters. Lilian was apart of the Undead starting story, and was constantly seen throughout Tirisfal questlines. She was one of the most important figures in the Scholomance dungeon, as adventurers had to run throughout the dungeon with her to chase down the final boss of the dungeon, only for her to be nearly killed, telling adventurers to go on without her.

However this isn't where she is last seen. In Warlords of Draenor, she is a quest giver if the player built the Inn, giving you a quest for the Shadowmoon Burial Grounds dungeon, giving proof that she is alive.

When I created her, I sat here and thought this needs to be a character that will be difficult to kill, who can interrupt plans of those looking to kill her. In the game, she is a proven resilient character, with skills that prove impressive in many situations. As such, this is where I started with her combat trait, Undying Hatred. Undying Hatred will give enemies the 'Oh **** she's still up!' kind of feel after they drop her health to 0. 

Moving on to her core abilities, I wanted her to be aggressive, much to reflect her personality. All three of her abilities are used by her during her boss fight in Scholomance. Shadow Shiv would be great to use as an initiation into battle, and then Dark Blaze and Death's Grasp would be used to help keep sustained damage.

Her Heroics were meant to contribute to team fights. Death and Despair would be great to keep her tank-ness in team fights, allowing her to last longer if she was the only Warrior on a team. Hateful Sight would be great for shutting down a single heavy-damage dealer on the opposing team. If it were on Greymane for example, does he risk attacking an ally or fall back until it faded.

Stats

Health: 2150 (+4%/level)
Health Regen: 4.3 (+4%/level) of Max Health

Mana: 500 (+10/level)
Mana Regen: 3.75 (+0.975/level)

Attack: 115 (+3%/level)
Attack Speed: 1.3
Attack Range: Melee

Difficulty: Medium

Pros:

Has good team fight initiation
High health, health armor
High probability in assisting team even while dead
 
Cons:

Low over all damage
Build potential to have a stronger death than life
Easy to burn through mana

Initial Skins:

1: Lilian Voss
2: Scarlet Lilian Voss (Red & White)
3: Forsaken Lilian Voss (Black & Purple)
4: Uncrowned Lilian Voss (Black & White)

Combat Trait

1
Undying Hatred
Lilian only dies 4 seconds after her health is reduced 0. During this time, her movement speed, and all damage output is reduced by 30%. Her mana drains at 10% of her maximum mana per second, she cannot be healed, or be saved from death. Lilian gains resistance to 50% resistance to Crowd Control during Undying Hatred.

Her respawn timer does not start until her time is up, and she completely dies.

Primary Abilities

1
Shadow Shiv
Lilian leaps to a target enemy hero, striking them down with her Runeblades, dealing 169 (+4%/level) damage and slowing the target by 25% for 1 second.

Mana Cost: 50
Cooldown: 6
2
Death's Grasp
Lilian uses her dark powers to pull two targets around her (prioritizes heroes) and roots them in place for 1.75 seconds.

Mana Cost: 75
Cooldown: 12
3
Dark Blaze
Lilian engulfs her body in dark fire, dealing 80 (+4%/level) damage to nearby targets as long as they stand in a 4.5 radius of her. Drains mana until deactivated.

Mana Cost: 20 per second
Cooldown: 1

Heroic Abilities

1
Death and Despair
Lilian causes a target enemy hero to feel the fear and despair as she once did discovering her state of Undeath. The despair feeds into Lilian, granting her a shield worth 30% of the target's total health (lasts for 10 seconds) and the target's movement speed is slowed by 40% (lasts for 4 seconds). If the target is killed while Death and Despair is still active, the shield refreshes itself granting 50% of the original value.

Mana Cost: 100
Cooldown: 75
2
Hateful Sight
Lilian inflicts her curse upon a target enemy hero, causing them to take 97 (+4% per level) damage every second for 7 seconds and become Cursed. During this time, the Cursed hero will see all allied heroes as Lilian Voss. Every Lilian Voss seen will be able to be attacked by basic attacks, where allies will take 25% of the basic attack's normal damage. The Cursed hero's allies will not take damage from the Cursed hero's abilities. Each time the Cursed Hero hits one of their allies while Cursed, the curse duration is extended by 1 second.

Mana Cost: 110
Cooldown: 75

Talents

Level 1
Cremation: Dark Blaze now heals Lilian equal to 25% of the amount of damage it does.
Well-Maintained Corpse: Increases regeneration effects and all healing received by 15%. 
Dry Heat: Dark Blaze costs less mana to maintain, cost 10 mana instead of 20 mana.
Fetch Their Bones!: QUEST: Collecting regeneration globes permanently increases health regeneration by 1.5 per second. REWARD: Collecting 30 gives her +500 Health and increase the duration of Undying Hatred by 2 seconds.

Level 4
Runeblade Mastery: Basic attacks will deal 35% splash damage in a small area of effect around her primary target.
Blight Blades: Increases Lilian's basic attack damage by 25%.
Shadow Shank: Shadow Shiv may now be able to target the ground. If Shadow Shiv does not hit an enemy hero, Lilian is granted Invisibility and her next Basic Attack will deal 25% more damage for 4 seconds. 


Level 7
Shadow Poison: Shadow Shiv now deals 20 (+4%/level) poison damage every second for 8 seconds.
Painful Embrace: Death's Grasp now deals 120 (+4%/level) damage to targets grabbed by it.
Fuel for the Fire: Minions killed by Dark Blaze explode, dealing 130 (+4/level) damage to nearby enemies

Level 10
Listed Above

Level 13
Funeral Pyre: Dark Blaze has a 50% larger area of effect.
Long Arm of the Dead: Death's Grasp has a 50% larger area of effect.
Spell Shield: Upon taking ability damage, reduce that damage and further ability damage by 50% for 3 seconds. Can only be triggered once every 30 seconds.

Level 16
From The Shadows: Shadow Shiv has a 100% longer cast range.
Party Favors: Death's Grasp now grabs up to five targets around her.
Taste for Revenge: Lilian deals 50% extra damage with Shadow Shiv if the targeted hero is rooted by the effect of Death's Grasp.

Level 20
Fear the Walking Dead: Death and Despair decreases movement speed by 50% and will now slow enemies around the affected hero during its duration by the same amount.
Die, Necromancer!: Hateful Sight now applies Vulnerability to the target for its duration, causing all damage taken to be increased by 20%.
Undying Soul: Once Undying Hatred is up and she dies, her soul remains, unable to move or use basic attacks, but able to use Death's Grasp and Dark Blaze for free. Until Lilian respawns, the damage output is reduced by 50%.
Undying Resolve: Activate to reduce damage taken by 50% for 3 seconds.

In-Game Quotes

Store Greeting (Pre-Purchase): "Hello...I am Lilian Voss."
Purchase: "I will have my revenge."
Store Greeting (Post-Purchase): "Let's hurry up here."
Ready: "I'm coming for you, Necromancer..."
Intro - Greeting Arthas: "One day, I'll come for you as well, Lich King."
Intro - Greeting Uther: "Hold, Lightbringer. I am not your enemy."
Intro - Greeting Valla: "It seems we both are meant to hunt monsters"
Intro - Greeting Greymane: "Do not confuse me for one of the Banshee Queen's servents, Worgen."
Intro - Greeting Gul'dan: "You! You are the cause of everything...I just know it..."
Intro - Greeting Zarya: "You are a massive woman...with you on our side, we can't lose."
Intro - Greeting Kel'thuzad: "You! You are lucky I do not strike you down here, Necromancer..."
Intro - Greeting Positive: "Lets hunt them down"
Intro - Greeting Negative: "Make yourself useful and strike them down."
Intro - Response Positive: "Agreed, let's cut them down."
Intro - Response Negative: "Don't make me turn these Runeblades on you."
What 1: "Yes?"
What 2: "Can I help you?"
Pissed 1: "I can't help that I have daddy issues."
Pissed 2: "What do you mean? I still have a heart. I keep it in my bag."
Pissed 3: "I see dead people...oh wait, that's just my reflection."
Pissed 4: "After my fight with Gandling, I really had to do a lot of soul searching."
Pissed 5: "Finding out that I was undead was tough at first..."
Pissed 6: "...but my look was a DEAD giveaway."
Pissed 7: "Necromancers!? Here in the Nexus!? Oh how my sword hand trembles..." (Tribute to Fire Emblem's Owain/Odin Dark)
Pissed 8: "You know, even I'm not really sure if I'm a Death Knight or a Rogue...A Death Rogue...? A Rogue Knight? Ooh...how I enjoy the sound of that..."
Move 1: "Let's move"
Move 2: "Excellent choice"
Move 3: "On it"
Move 4: "Alright let's go"
Hearthstone: "I need to catch my breath"
Getting Healed: "I thank you for your assistance."
Attack 1: "I'll end them!"
Attack 2: "Die! Die! Die!"
Attack 3: "Perish!"
Attack 4: "I'm coming for you!"
Undying Hatred Activates: "I'm not dead yet!"
Casting Death and Despair: "Suffer as I have!"
Casting Vengeful Spirit: "Feel my wrath!"
Killing a Hero 1: "You were in my way"
Killing a Hero 2: "Let's finish this, shall we?"
Killing a Hero 3: "Die, fiend!'
Killing a Hero 4: "That was almost to fun..."
Killing Arthas: "I'll end the Scourge's wrath right here!"
Killing Sylvanas: "You should've hunted me down, Banshee Queen."
Killing Stitches: "I've killed worse abominations than you!"
Killing Leoric: "I'll end the suffering of your soul, Skeletal King."
Killing Xul: "Die, Necromancer!"
Killing Gul'dan: "You cure the problem by rippng out its roots.."
Killing The Butcher: "Oh my...this isn't my blood, now is it?"
Killing Kel'thuzad: "Die, Lich!"
Death: "Your life will end once I catch my breath!"
Revived: "Now...to exact my revenge"
Ping - Kill Hero: "Quickly! Slay this hero!"
Ping - Capture Mercs: "Let's recruit these mercenaries for our cause"
Ping - Help Ally: "Our ally is in danger! Help them!"
Ping - Help Me: "Argh! I need some help!"
Ping - Destroy Fort: "Let's tear this fort to the ground"
Ping - Defend Fort: "We need to protect our fort"

Skin Ideas

Hooded Crusader Lilian: Once she wore her Scarlet Crusade uniform with pride. Now it was time for revenge. Lilian would be wearing her Hooded Crusader outfit she is seen wearing in WoW's Scarlet Monastery and Scarlet Halls dungeons (spoiler, it's Lilian Voss if you didn't know by now). 

Color Scheme:
1: Hooded Crusader Lilian (Purple & Red)
2: Alliance Hooded Crusader Lilian (Blue & Gold)
3: Forsaken Hooded Crusader Lilian (Black & Purple & Dark Blue)

Scarlet Punisher Lilian: Lilian always dreamed what her life would've been like had she not died. Thanks to the Nexus, she now knows. This outfit concept is similar to Crown Prince Arthas's concept, where she's alive instead of her undead form. However, her skills would be modified some visually to match her new living form. The modifications are as follows:
-Death's Grasps would be hands made of light instead of darkness. 
-Dark Blaze would be holy fire 
-Lilian could have her voice changed so she didn't sound like her undeaed self

Color Scheme:
1. Scarlet Punisher Lilian (Red & White)
2. Alliance Scarlet Punisher Lilian (Blue & White)
3. Holy Scarlet Punisher Lilian (White & Gold)

Updates

v0.02: Changed up the description some, added skin ideas
v0.03: Added her speech
v0.04: Changed her title from Scholomance Invader to Necromancer Hunter and added a Hearthstone speech for her.
v1.00: Finished her (finally). Added her spells mana cost and cool downs. Coloured everything up to look nice. Finished out her speech. Updated my notes.
v1.01: Updated and added more quotes 
v1.10: Jumped right to 1.10 because I did a massive change to her (thanks to HUITZIL). Changed her combat trait to Undying Hated. Reworked Death and Despair and completely replaced her second Heroic (formerly Vengeful Spirit) with Hateful Sight. Reworked some of her talents (you can see which ones because there are no colors for them yet) and edited a few stats for her. I'll come back in later and brush it up and make it nicer to look at.
v1.11: Added color schemes and edited the description of her Scarlet Punisher Skin
v1.12: Added an About section above Stats and added a few quotes to keep it update to date with current heroes.
v1.13: Made some small minor changes around the concept to make it easier to read.
v1.14: Added some quotes
v2.0: Changed Lilian to mutliclass (Warrior and Assassin) from Warrior alone, small increase to base attack and attack speed. Added a Quest! to the level 1 talent Fetch the Bones!. Nerfed the level 13 talent Vampric Runeblades. Prettied up the talents and abilities so they're nicer to read on the eyes.
v2.01: Added quotes, fixed errors
v3.0: Removed scaling for Undying Hatred, nerfed Well-Maintained Corpse talent from 30% to 15%, nerfed Cremation talent from 100% to 75% clarified Shadow Shank talent, removed Rigamortis Talent and worked it into Undying Hatred to balance out the loss of scaling, renamed Party Grab talent to Party Favors
v3.1: Changed her role from Multiclass to Bruiser due to the 2019 Gameplay Changes, increased her health, edited her color scheme to add in alternative outfit names, fixed broken picture links
v3.2: Buffed stats to normalize between other Heroes, adjusted Undying Hatred so she can be put in Stasis, buffed her Basic Ability damage, nerfed the duration on shields gained from Death and Despair, buffed the damage on Hateful Spite, added Possible Talent Builds, added additional functionality to Undying Soul talent where damage is still affected by Undying Hatred.
v3.3: Did calculations for scaling and adjusted numbers accordingly. Dark Blaze damage increased from 60 to 80. Buffed Shadow Poison (Level 7 Talent) damage from 25 to 60. Buffed Painful Embrace (Level 7 Talent) damage from 50 to 85. Buffed Fuel for the Fire (Level 16 Talent) damage from 15 to 70.
v3.4: Adjusted and added to quotes. Decreased the shield duration of Death and Despair from 10 seconds to 4 seconds and the slow duration from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. Increased the slow of Fear the Walking Dead (Level 20) from 65% to 75% and changed the wording on the slow to be more clear.
v4.0: Moved From the Shadows from Level 1 to Level 16. Moved Runeblade Mastery from Level 1 to Level 4. Burn Brighter renamed to Funeral Pyre. Funeral Pyre moved from Level 4 to Level 13. Long Arm of the Dead moved from Level 4 to Level 13. Undying Agony moved from Level 4 to Level 7. Well-Maintained Corpse moved from Level 4 to Level 1. Cremation moved from Level 7 to Level 1. Blight Blades moved from Level 7 to Level 4. Shadow Shank moved from Level 13 to Level 4. Vampiric Runeblades moved from Level 13 to Level 4. Fuel for the Fire moved from Level 16 to Level 7. Removed possible talent builds (this will be readded at a later date). Changed the picture for Shadow Shiv. Shadow Shiv damage buffed from 150 to 169 and scaling nerfed from 5% to 4%. Shadow Shiv cooldown lowered from 8 seocnds to 6 seconds. Clarified Dark Blaze's mana drain. Hateful Sight damage nerfed from 110 to 97. Clarified Dry Heat (Level 1 talent) mana drain. Fetch Their Bones! (Level 1 talent) now additionally increases the duration of Undying Hatred by 2 seconds. Clarified Runeblade Mastery (Level 4 talent) to be more clear on the type of damage it does. Blight Blades (Level 4 talent) buffed from 15% to 20%. Undying Agony (Level 7 talent) clarified to slow mana drain by 33%. Shadow Poison (Level 7 talent) scaling nerfed from 6% to 4%. Painful Embrace (Level 7 talent) damage buffed from 85 to 170 and scaling nerfed from 6% to 4%. Fuel for the Fire (Level 7 talent) damage buffed from 70 to 130 and scaling nerfed from 5% to 4%. Clarified Funeral Pyre (Level 13 talent) AoE percentage. Clarified Long Arm of the Dead (Level 13 talent) AoE percentage. Clarified From the Shadows (Level 16 talent) cast range percentage increase. Fear the Walking Dead (Level 20 talent) buffed to now slow nearby enemies by the same amount. Updated links to additional concepts.
v4.1: Nerfed Undying Hatred's duration by 2 seconds. Death and Despair shield duration increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds and slow duration increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds. Cremation (Level 1 talent) heal nerfed from 75% to 50%. Nerfed Blight Blade (Level 4 talent) basic attack bonus from 20% to 15% but combined Vampiric Runeblades (Level 4 talent) with it. Buffed Undying Agony (Level 7 talent) mana drain reduction from 33% to 50%. Nerfed Shadow Poison damage from 60 to 20.
v4.2: Taste for Revenge bonus damage buffed from 25% to 50%
v5.0: Nerfed health regen and buffed mana regen. Reworked Undying Hatred to keep theme but make it more fair than it was. Nerfed Death's Grasp root duration. Clarified radius for Dark Blaze. Greatly nerfed Death and Despair. Reworked Hateful Sight completely. Level 1 Talents: Nerfed Cremation's self-heal. Level 4 Talents: Runeblade Mastery nerfed, Blight Blades no longer heals but adds more damage now. Level 7 Talents: Undying Agony was removed, Painful Embrace damage was nerfed. Level 16 Talents: Party Favors nerfed from 5 targets to 4. Level 20 Talents: Everything got nerfed.

Therson's Notes

Skibi // Kilrogg Deadeye // Krasus // Timmy the Cruel // Tirion Fordring // Cairne Bloodhoof // Broll Bearmantle // Katrina Prestor (Onyxia) // Kanrethed Ebonlocke // Lady Vashj // Grand Magistrix Elisande // Helix Gearbreaker // Nazgrel

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Allankap5 (1) | May 21, 2020 1:08am
Hateful Sight is such a cool ability and I'm jealous I didn't think of it first lol.
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Huitzil (2) | October 19, 2015 11:16pm
It's an interesting idea as sort of a mirror to Leoric (dunno how flavorful it is, I levelled my Forsaken before Cata), but it seems like it would be hard to get it to a point where it's useful (ie, not just killed again right away) but not frustrating (there's no point in killing her to begin with). I think it definitely shouldn't be a talent to be able to control the corpse after death. That's an option you have to pick just to be able to use your abilities; a more-effective minion that you passively watch while dead isn't fun.

I like how her basic kit holds together: she's got effective ways to focus people on her and rewards for doing so with Dark Fire. She pins enemies down for her team to focus, and has a trait that's a consolation prize for being killed because she's PROBABLY going to die doing it. I'm much less hot on her ultimates: Death and Despair is basically a double-length Shrink Ray with an inferior snare, and Vengeful Spirit mirroring casts of Death's Grasp is going to mess you up more often than not because you can't control who goes to you and who goes to your spirit. Death and Despair could be saved if it hit everyone in an AoE and was her "tanking ult", not sure what to replace Venegeful Spirit with, but I wanna say some kind of long-lasting DoT effect, so she can be like "Well, my team broke off from this fight, but I gave you a present anyway."

I said I don't know her lore, but I do know there's got to be a better name for her trait than "perfectly good corpse", though that could be a talent name if that's an important bit of dialogue. How is this for a rework:

Undying Hatred: Lillian only dies X seconds [X= her level?] after her health is reduced to zero. During this time, her movement speed and damage are reduced by 35%, her mana rapidly drains, and she cannot be healed, put into stasis, or otherwise rescued from death.


Numbers might need tweaking of course, but how does that general idea grab you? I guess it is kind of like Uther, but hits the "killing me won't stop me from doing my job" thing from a differentish angle -- and while Uther's Holy Force Ghost could fit her alt skin, I think that "No, I'm not dying yet, I hate you too much to succumb to death again is pretty cool on its own.
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Therson (4) | November 7, 2015 11:29pm
Huitzil wrote:
It's an interesting idea as sort of a mirror to Leoric (dunno how flavorful it is, I levelled my Forsaken before Cata), but it seems like it would be hard to get it to a point where it's useful (ie, not just killed again right away) but not frustrating (there's no point in killing her to begin with). I think it definitely shouldn't be a talent to be able to control the corpse after death. That's an option you have to pick just to be able to use your abilities; a more-effective minion that you passively watch while dead isn't fun.

I like how her basic kit holds together: she's got effective ways to focus people on her and rewards for doing so with Dark Fire. She pins enemies down for her team to focus, and has a trait that's a consolation prize for being killed because she's PROBABLY going to die doing it. I'm much less hot on her ultimates: Death and Despair is basically a double-length Shrink Ray with an inferior snare, and Vengeful Spirit mirroring casts of Death's Grasp is going to mess you up more often than not because you can't control who goes to you and who goes to your spirit. Death and Despair could be saved if it hit everyone in an AoE and was her "tanking ult", not sure what to replace Venegeful Spirit with, but I wanna say some kind of long-lasting DoT effect, so she can be like "Well, my team broke off from this fight, but I gave you a present anyway."

I said I don't know her lore, but I do know there's got to be a better name for her trait than "perfectly good corpse", though that could be a talent name if that's an important bit of dialogue. How is this for a rework:

Undying Hatred: Lillian only dies X seconds [X= her level?] after her health is reduced to zero. During this time, her movement speed and damage are reduced by 35%, her mana rapidly drains, and she cannot be healed, put into stasis, or otherwise rescued from death.


Numbers might need tweaking of course, but how does that general idea grab you? I guess it is kind of like Uther, but hits the "killing me won't stop me from doing my job" thing from a differentish angle -- and while Uther's Holy Force Ghost could fit her alt skin, I think that "No, I'm not dying yet, I hate you too much to succumb to death again is pretty cool on its own.


Hey, let me just say I am sorry it took me so long to respond to your comment. I'm excited to get some feed back as I know the Concepts I am coming up with is not perfect. Receiving feedback on what you think should happen is a great way to helping me hone my skills on what I need to change. Going on that, let me go ahead and respond to what you have said:

Talking about the name of her trait "A Perfect Good Corpse", I had named it that because that is the name of one of the Phases of her fight in the Scholomance Dungeon in World of Warcraft. Just for now, I am going to leave the name until I (or someone more intelligent than I) can come up with a better name for it.

Going on to what you were talking about on her basic abilities, thank you! I am glad that they are liked! Going onto her Heroics, I can kind of agree with you. I was looking for stuff that would be connected to her, while giving her a sense of uniqueness to it that would over-all be effective for her role as a Warrior. But I am afraid I did not quite hit the mark lol I'll completely rework Death and Despair, changing the ability completely soon. I have some sort of an idea what I want to change it to. I'll certainly take in your suggestion for Death and Decay.

Talking about Vengeful Spirit...I'm afraid I am stumped. I'll figure something out, where I'll keep the aspect of her shooting out her spirit, but I'll change it to be better fitting for a Warrior-type build such as hers.

I really enjoy your suggestion for Undying Hatred, and I will be sure to add it in as soon as I go in to make changes to her. Thank you!

I'll work on the numbers, and see if I can pump out something a bit more balanced.

Thanks again for your input! It is really helpful!
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