User blog comment:Omnirock/Omnirock's Fanfiction Trivia Page./@comment-8706772-20130719031550/@comment-8706772-20130719214046

Out of curiosity... was it suppose to be the lich that released all the monsters? That would have been my guess, but there are stronger monsters than the lich.

So without ruining it too much (spoiler): I decided to make the lich a minion of the real culprit, intended to guard the castle and throw heroes off while he's doing other stuff. It makes sense that someone in control of so many monsters would be hiding behind the scenes rather than defend a castle for himself head-on (he seems red-john-ish). I'm not sure if the real culprit will also be known as 'the lich' or is something else entirely. So if there are any inconsistencies, it could be explained by us talking about different 'liches'.