In this world, there are -- for the most part -- only three kinds of people.

There are people who want to conquer all Golarion, because their urge for domination has no end.

There are people who want to hurt all Golarion, because their suffering in life has led to vengefulness, hatred, envy of those who suffer less.  Perhaps that emotion could have someday been satiated in life, if its fulfillment button had been pressed over and over to the point of monotony and boredom.  But once you are undead your feelings will never change that much.  And so the desire to deal out suffering becomes an urge that has no end.

 ...And then there are the normal sane fucking people.  Who just wanted to go on researching magic, without getting eternally tortured, just because Pharasma for all Her super-divinity cannot comprehend how those experiments could not possibly have been Evil given that they were productive, useful, and let's be frank here, fun.

At least, those are the only kinds of people that last and stick around.  Many proto-liches, the raw material from which liches sometimes arise, do not fall into one of these three categories; but the wizards who fit in zero of those categories mostly do not stick around, and no one who matters will trouble themselves to memorize their names.

As for the notion of a non-wizard who is a person, that is a contradiction in terms.

In this world, there are -- for the most part -- only three kinds of people.

There are people who want to conquer all Golarion, because their urge for domination has no end.

There are people who want to hurt all Golarion, because their suffering in life has led to vengefulness, hatred, envy of those who suffer less.  Perhaps that emotion could have someday been satiated in life, if its fulfillment button had been pressed over and over to the point of monotony and boredom.  But once you are undead your feelings will never change that much.  And so the desire to deal out suffering becomes an urge that has no end.

 ...And then there are the normal fucking sane people.  Who just wanted to go on researching magic, without getting eternally tortured, merely because Pharasma for all Her super-divinity cannot comprehend how those experiments could not possibly have been Evil given that they were productive, useful, and let's be frank here, fun.

At least, those are the kinds of people that seem to last and stick around.  Many proto-liches, the raw material from which liches sometimes arise, do not fall into one of these three categories; but those such mostly do not stick around, and no one who matters will trouble themselves to memorize their names.

As for the notion of a non-wizard who is a person, that is a contradiction in terms.

In this world, there are -- for the main part -- three kinds of people.

There are people who want to conquer all Golarion, because their urge for domination has no end.

There are people who want to hurt all Golarion, because their suffering in life has led to vengefulness, hatred, envy of those who suffer less.  Perhaps that emotion could have someday been satiated in life, if its fulfillment button had been pressed over and over to the point of monotony and boredom.  But once you are undead your feelings will never change that much.  And so the desire to deal out suffering becomes an urge that has no end.

 ...And then there are the normal fucking sane people.  Who just wanted to go on researching magic, without getting eternally tortured, merely because Pharasma for all Her super-divinity cannot comprehend how those experiments could not possibly have been Evil given that they were productive, useful, and let's be frank here, fun.

At least, those are the kinds of people that seem to last and stick around.  Many proto-liches, the raw material from which liches sometimes arise, do not fall into one of these three categories; but those such mostly do not stick around, and no one who matters will trouble themselves to memorize their names.

As for the notion of a non-wizard who is a person, that is a contradiction in terms.