Talk:Barry Bluejeans/@comment-199.184.247.129-20181113144105/@comment-134.50.160.65-20181128184439

Spoilers for anyone not past the Suffering Game

Barry had a necromantic machine that would make new bodies for himself. He used a bit of his own blood and hair, which he got from his then recently deceased body after Taako killed him and he fell off the ship, as a base so a body could form over a few months. Because he's a lich he's essentially immortal, but he still needs a body to work with because liches are associated with evil. In the other cycles, because they had the bonds, they could die and reappear back on the ship at the end of the year. It's why Kravitz was so confused with Merle, who had died so many times. He could speak to the Hunger, die, and then come back at the beginning of the next cycle.