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A lichen (not to be confused with a lich) is one of the easiest monsters in the game. They are extremely slow and incapable of dealing any actual damage; their main attack is to hold you in one place, but this is trivial considering they are easy to beat.

Lichen corpses are not considered meat and, unlike most corpses, never rot. They can be carried indefinitely as normal comestibles which are always safe to eat, and also used to tame horses.

There is no such thing as a master lichen.

Encyclopedia entry

The chamber was of unhewn rock, round, as near as might
be, eighteen or twenty feet across, and gay with rich
variety of fern and moss and lichen.  The fern was in
its winter still, or coiling for the spring-tide; but
moss was in abundant life, some feathering, and some
gobleted, and some with fringe of red to it.
        [ Lorna Doone, by R.D. Blackmore ]
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