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Inside a golem is a classic one. Put the golem somewhere that enemies can't target it with ranged attacks.
Deep beneath the earth or sea might work.
One in a fairy story hid his like this: "His soul (or death) is hidden separate from his body inside a needle, which is in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a hare, which is in an iron chest, which is buried under a green oak tree, which is on the island of Buyan in the ocean." - since the hare will try to run away if the chest is opened, and if the hare is killed the duck will emerge and try to fly away, I think we can conclude that they're undead in PF.
Way of the Wicked spoiler:
It's interesting but I don't think I'd like to put my unlife in the hands of such a powerful, free-willed and intelligent creature. Too risky.
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Inside a golem is a classic one. Put the golem somewhere that enemies can't target it with ranged attacks.
Deep beneath the earth or sea might work.
One in a fairy story hid his like this: "His soul (or death) is hidden separate from his body inside a needle, which is in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a hare, which is in an iron chest, which is buried under a green oak tree, which is on the island of Buyan in the ocean." - since the hare will try to run away if the chest is opened, and if the hare is killed the duck will emerge and try to fly away, I think we can conclude that they're undead in PF.
I love Koschei The Deathless (the original, not the DnD/Pathfinder version) :3
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You could also put a fake one behind a bunch of protections so the people after the lich will try to go after that one instead.
In a lead block, in an adamantine box, protected by nondetection, buried, covered by a stone floor, under the corpse storage room.
Depends on the level of the lich.
Move Earth and stone shape used to create a tomb 3-4 miles underground with magically hardened stone lined with lead (doesn't stop teleport - does stop detect magic). Dead bodies laid out with preserve corpse items used to keep them 'fresh' for a new host - along with magic items and spellbook backups.
Entire room is guarded with teleport trap if possible. No air or poison air inside the room itself, golems for protection. No entrance, room must be reached via teleport or dug into. Would also assume traps that worked with blasting the room with negative energy. Every item in the room hit with false aura so someone looking couldn't tell what is magic and what isn't. Non-detection on the entire room.
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No planar travel or teleport, but can the lich still put their airless tomb full of traps and corpses with no entrances on another planet via interplanetary teleport? Ideally an uninhabitable planet in a different solar system.
Aren't rejuvenating liches easily destroyed by a party that has access to Discern Location? It seems like the rebuilding body would trigger as your location even before the process is complete (a comatose version of me with my limbs amputated is still me, I don't see why a half complete lich is any different).
A rejuvenating lich can't cast Mind Blank, so he can't avoid being found this way, and when he's found his phylactery is right there next to him. So an important basic criterion of locating your phylactery and recovery location is that it won't give useful information by being in a discrete named location. It's up the GM if he just says "a pit in the Sahara desert" or "a pit 15.3 miles SSW of the Blahblah Oasis."
The former can make a defense possible, the second makes it more of a challenge. Unless you have Interplanetary Teleport, which if it can take vague interplanetary guidance and put you a safe place you've never been before, should be able to put you close to vague guidelines on a planet you're already on. But that's spell is even harder to get than Discern Location, so most liches don't need to worry that far.
So: Vague location not easily referenced from nearby famous landmarks. Decoy location nearby for those who are nevertheless able to track you down. ("Hey, haven't we gone 15 miles more or less SSW? I see a hidden pit over there. Not all that well disguised, though, you'd think he'd try harder.") Real defenses and decoys to delay or defeat those who do find your body.
But if you don't have access to planar travel you probably don't have the resources to get super sophisticated, so go to the middle of an uninhabited wasteland, dig a bunker, put your phylactery in it, hope there aren't a lot of burrowers around, and call it good.
If you use the wizard/sorc list: Fabricate to create a stone tomb encased in lead, then encase that in something that won't rust and is airtight. Drop over the side of a boat. Wait in your tomb for a month, and hope they figure you're fully dead. Then go to another continent under a different name until the adventurers die of old age.
If you're up against Discern Location, then you probably have access to Mind Blank.
Then boast of how you have FIVE phylacteries, and one is buried five miles beneath the surface of the earth, one is on the moon, one is in a pressure-proof + heat-proof chamber in the heart of the sun, one in the negative energy plane, and one is guarded by a great wyrm red dragon.
This will be proof against even Discern Location because "To find an object, you must have touched it at least once."
Try to always have a Mind Blank slot available for as soon as you can cast it, so they can't detect you that way.
Aren't rejuvenating liches easily destroyed by a party that has access to Discern Location? It seems like the rebuilding body would trigger as your location even before the process is complete (a comatose version of me with my limbs amputated is still me, I don't see why a half complete lich is any different).
If a lich without access to create dimension or planar travel is up against a group capable of casting level 8 spells they deserve to be dead honestly.
That being said....
The spell reveals the name of the creature or object's location (place, name, business name, building name, or the like), community, county (or similar political division), country, continent, and the plane of existence where the target lies.
For my lich - you get:
Lich Bob The Terrible is located in no business, in farmdale, in the county of Lancaster, in the Country of Woz, on the Continent of Wozzit, in the material plane.
That doesn't tell you that the sucker is 3 miles under the earth... I think your mileage would vary based on GM interpretation and if they wanted the story to include finding the lich.
Stone shape is also a rather nice move- add it on top of the lead box, and put the box into a statute.
Preferably, put it in 1 of 100 statues on each side of a hallway that is part of a large dungeon. Make it #43 on left. Make the hallway into a general trap for the party (such as having archers are the other end of the hall) in order to get them to rush the place.
The general idea is that you want to place it in the most nothing, background location imaginable so it never gets noticed. Fancy magic is good for countering other fancy magics, but dungeon design meta knowledge has to be trumped with anti design- don't make the room look special in the least.
A safe deposit box in a small bank just outside the borders of your Dark Empire (TM)
IN OUTER SPACE!!!!!!!
Seriously though. It totally works.
Deep underground in a room of worked stoned just big enough to accommodate the lich with a backup spell book. Adequately protected with magic.