Editing Illithid (section)

==Non-Standard Ceremorphs==
*'''Half-Mindflayer''': In 3e, if the host is any species besides a human, this is the result, a template which can be found in the Fiend Folio.
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*'''Mindwitness''': The result of placing a mind flayer tadpole into a beholder (essentially replace four of the eyestalks with large thick tentacles and the rays of doom with psionics), a docile creature whose main role is to facilitate telepathic communications. A Mindwitness will look for another telepathic being to serve if the illithids it works for die, and it's alignment will even shift to match that of it's new master. So be careful with these if any of your players are telepathic. Debuted in the 3.5 ''Underdark'' splatbook.
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*'''Brainstealer Dragon''': The unspeakably powerful gribbly horror that results from ceremorphing a true dragon. It's psychic might is only surpassed by the Elder Brain.  This monster has an equivalent in 5th edition called an elder brain dragon, which is technically not a ceremorph, see below.
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*'''Urophion''': A ceremorphed [[roper]], a creature with a genius level intellect whose talents are wasted on sentry duty due to racism (but with their slow, slow, slow move speed they can't do much of anything else). 
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*'''Mozgriken''': From [[Dragon Magazine #255]]. Implanting a tadpole in a [[Svirfneblin]] usually kills both the tadpole and its host, but if it survives the result is a small shapeshifting creature with no mouth and only three tentacles, a trait that forces them to feed only on brain fluids and earns them no small amount of abuse from true illithids.
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*'''Tzakandi''': Also from Dragon #255. The tadpoles typically placed within lizardfolk are more bellicose than their kin, and form the Tzakandi- creatures similar to lizardfolk save for the two acid-spitting tentacles emerging from their heads that become fanatically loyal to the first illithid they see. 
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*'''Uchuulon''' or '''Slime Chuul''': If a tadpole is placed into a [[Chuul]], the tadpole dies, but the Chuul is changed into this, which is like a chuul, but slimier.  

*'''Gnome Ceremorph''': An illithid created from a gnome host that failed to completely change into an illithid and so retains some of the physical and mental traits of a [[gnome]], making them shorter than a regular illithid, but talented at invention. They wield [[Wat|laser pistols]] and are the same alignment as before their transformation.
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*'''Gnome Squidling''': A pathetic and [[Dawww|kind of adorable]] variant of the gnome ceremorph that came out horrifically wrong with a stunted body, an oversized head, big eyes, and a pair of tentacles that are way too long. They have to use levitation to move around and their mind blast attack is replaced with a much weaker mind tickle attack. Their lack of intelligence makes them unaligned.
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