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	The mind flayers have one deity they pay respects to in Illsensine, who did not create them. Perhaps to make up for the fact that Illsensine is the only Mind Flayer God, Illsensine is a very powerful rank 20 greater deity who omnoms the knowledge of everyone the instant they die. The Mind Flayers don't exactly worship Illsensine per se, they just respect it for its great knowledge, and Illsensine returns the favor by considering Mind Flayers to be the only worthy species in the multiverse. This is not to say that there are no Mind Flayer clerics to Illsensine, because said clerics of Illsensine do indeed exist, but their numbers are rather small relative to say the number of Dwarven clerics of Moradin, however; Mind Flayer communities have an exception to their rule of "don't study magic too much" for the Clerics of Illsensine, and in fact greatly respect these clerics and leave them to their business.		The mind flayers have one deity they pay respects to in Illsensine, who did not create them. Perhaps to make up for the fact that Illsensine is the only Mind Flayer God, Illsensine is a very powerful rank 20 greater deity who omnoms the knowledge of everyone the instant they die. The Mind Flayers don't exactly worship Illsensine per se, they just respect it for its great knowledge, and Illsensine returns the favor by considering Mind Flayers to be the only worthy species in the multiverse. This is not to say that there are no Mind Flayer clerics to Illsensine, because said clerics of Illsensine do indeed exist, but their numbers are rather small relative to say the number of Dwarven clerics of Moradin, however; Mind Flayer communities have an exception to their rule of "don't study magic too much" for the Clerics of Illsensine, and in fact greatly respect these clerics and leave them to their business.

	The mind flayers used to have another god called Maanzecorian, but Tenebrous (actually Orcus, it's a long story) used the ~~last word~~ on him, so his head asploded.		The mind flayers used to have another god called Maanzecorian who was their god of comprehension and secrets, but Tenebrous (actually Orcus, it's a long story) used the Last Word on him, so his head asploded, his demiplane asploded and his followers' heads asploded.

	Some illithids spend their time finding ways to put out the sun, because they hate that bright light shit. Unfortunately for them, putting out a 1,392,000+ kilometer ball of ungodly hot hydrogen and helium is nigh on impossible (unless your name is [[Elder Evils#Father Llymic\|Father Llymic]].) Most other Illithids think that these illithids are wasting their time when it's common knowledge that all they have to do is wait many, many billions of years for the sun to eventually puff up and die. And it goes without saying putting out the sun would indirectly eliminate their food source as well.		Some illithids spend their time finding ways to put out the sun, because they hate that bright light shit. Unfortunately for them, putting out a 1,392,000+ kilometer ball of ungodly hot hydrogen and helium is nigh on impossible (unless your name is [[Elder Evils#Father Llymic\|Father Llymic]].) Most other Illithids think that these illithids are wasting their time when it's common knowledge that all they have to do is wait many, many billions of years for the sun to eventually puff up and die. And it goes without saying putting out the sun would indirectly eliminate their food source as well.

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	* [[Githyanki]]		* [[Githyanki]]
	* [[Far Realm]]		* [[Far Realm]]
	* [[~~Unified_Setting~~/Illithid]]		* [[Setting:Unified Setting/Illithid]]

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	Fun fact: in the city of Stormreach, in the [[Eberron]] campaign setting, there is an Illithid who just hangs around near a garden and engages in perfectly normal, honest, and voluntary business transactions with the humanoids and other races that inhabit the city. And by "normal" we mean people pay him to reprogram their brains and alter their memories. Why spend four years studying a new language when you can learn it by spending four minutes letting Fred gnaw on your brain? Oh, yeah, [https://ddowiki.com/page/Fred his name is Fred]. It's a very common Mind Flayer name. Point is, Mind Flayers may be brain eating parasitoids but they don't just compulsively kill/consume humanoids on sight like the xenomorphs from the Alien movies; they're perfectly capable of being normal, well-integrated members of surface-dwelling, non-evil, humanoid societies, not that they are likely to want to though.		Fun fact: in the city of Stormreach, in the [[Eberron]] campaign setting, there is an Illithid who just hangs around near a garden and engages in perfectly normal, honest, and voluntary business transactions with the humanoids and other races that inhabit the city. And by "normal" we mean people pay him to reprogram their brains and alter their memories. Why spend four years studying a new language when you can learn it by spending four minutes letting Fred gnaw on your brain? Oh, yeah, [https://ddowiki.com/page/Fred his name is Fred]. It's a very common Mind Flayer name. Point is, Mind Flayers may be brain eating parasitoids but they don't just compulsively kill/consume humanoids on sight like the xenomorphs from the Alien movies; they're perfectly capable of being normal, well-integrated members of surface-dwelling, non-evil, humanoid societies, not that they are likely to want to though.

			Their name "Mindflayer" was given to a psychic parasitic hivemind in Stranger Things.

	=Illithid Physiology=		=Illithid Physiology=

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	Elder Brain 5e.png\|An elder brain in his pimped-out floating vat		Elder Brain 5e.png\|An elder brain in his pimped-out floating vat
	Elder-brain-dragon.jpeg\|~~its~~ terrifying when PC have to assault an elder brain but is scarier when the elder brain comes after them		Elder-brain-dragon.jpeg\|It's terrifying when PC have to assault an elder brain but scarier when the elder brain comes after them
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Non-Standard Ceremorphs

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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 ~~carful~~ with these if any of your players are telepathic. Debuted in the 3.5 ''Underdark'' splatbook.		*'''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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	==Elder Brain==		==Elder Brain==
	Elder brains are created via a process that varies from edition to edition (in those editions that elaborate on the process at all, that is). In some editions all ulitharids that survive long enough eventually morph into one. In others it happens when a bunch of deceased mind flayer brains are dumped into a single pool filled with a briny solution; these brains will merge and eventually become alive and turn into a CR 25 [[TPK]]ing horror. There is also an idea that elder brains were created by the Illithid god Ilsensine, who performed ceremorphosis on some lesser gods or demigods. One of them, called the "Illithid God-Brain," is even trapped on [[Ravenloft]] and rules over an Illithid colony named Bluetspur, with the official backstory left open as to why one of these alien monstrousities would ever earn the place of a [[Darklord]] on that benighted plane, save that it must have done something atrocious even by Illithid standards. And with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, we finally have the answer: this elder brain started cannibalizing other elder brains to help it discover a concept that was utterly alien, even to it! But it developed a ~~degenerative~~ disease as a result of the cannibalism, which scared the other elder brains into attempting to banish it from reality in fear of the disease spreading, [[What\|because apparently the threat of treacherous cannibalism wasn't scary enough]].		Elder brains are created via a process that varies from edition to edition (in those editions that elaborate on the process at all, that is). In some editions all ulitharids that survive long enough eventually morph into one. In others it happens when a bunch of deceased mind flayer brains are dumped into a single pool filled with a briny solution; these brains will merge and eventually become alive and turn into a CR 25 [[TPK]]ing horror. There is also an idea that elder brains were created by the Illithid god Ilsensine, who performed ceremorphosis on some lesser gods or demigods. One of them, called the "Illithid God-Brain," is even trapped on [[Ravenloft]] and rules over an Illithid colony named Bluetspur, with the official backstory left open as to why one of these alien monstrousities would ever earn the place of a [[Darklord]] on that benighted plane, save that it must have done something atrocious even by Illithid standards. And with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, we finally have the answer: this elder brain started cannibalizing other elder brains to help it discover a concept that was utterly alien, even to it! But it developed a kuru-like disease as a result of the cannibalism, which scared the other elder brains into attempting to banish it from reality in fear of the disease spreading, [[What\|because apparently the threat of treacherous cannibalism wasn't scary enough]].

	An elder brain that wants to increase their mobility can parasitize a dragon and merge with them to become an Elder Brain Dragon. They probably got jealous of how cool the brainstealer dragon is. The possessed dragon loses their breath weapon but can spray illithid tadpoles from its mouth.		An elder brain that wants to increase their mobility can parasitize a dragon and merge with them to become an Elder Brain Dragon. They probably got jealous of how cool the brainstealer dragon is. The possessed dragon loses their breath weapon but can spray illithid tadpoles from its mouth.

1d4chan>Skadooshbag: /* Elder Brain */

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Elder Brain

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	==Elder Brain==		==Elder Brain==
	Elder brains are created via a process that varies from edition to edition (in those editions that elaborate on the process at all, that is). In some editions all ulitharids that survive long enough eventually morph into one. In others it happens when a bunch of deceased mind flayer brains are dumped into a single pool filled with a briny solution; these brains will merge and eventually become alive and turn into a CR 25 [[TPK]]ing horror. There is also an idea that elder brains were created by the Illithid god Ilsensine, who performed ceremorphosis on some lesser gods or demigods. One of them, called the "Illithid God-Brain," is even trapped on [[Ravenloft]] and rules over an Illithid colony named Bluetspur, with the official backstory left open as to why one of these alien monstrousities would ever earn the place of a [[Darklord]] on that benighted plane, save that it must have done something atrocious even by Illithid standards. And with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, we finally have the answer: this elder brain started cannibalizing other elder brains to help it discover a concept that was utterly alien, even to it! But it developed a degenerative disease as a result of the cannibalism, which scared the other elder brains into attempting to banish it from reality in fear of the disease spreading.		Elder brains are created via a process that varies from edition to edition (in those editions that elaborate on the process at all, that is). In some editions all ulitharids that survive long enough eventually morph into one. In others it happens when a bunch of deceased mind flayer brains are dumped into a single pool filled with a briny solution; these brains will merge and eventually become alive and turn into a CR 25 [[TPK]]ing horror. There is also an idea that elder brains were created by the Illithid god Ilsensine, who performed ceremorphosis on some lesser gods or demigods. One of them, called the "Illithid God-Brain," is even trapped on [[Ravenloft]] and rules over an Illithid colony named Bluetspur, with the official backstory left open as to why one of these alien monstrousities would ever earn the place of a [[Darklord]] on that benighted plane, save that it must have done something atrocious even by Illithid standards. And with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, we finally have the answer: this elder brain started cannibalizing other elder brains to help it discover a concept that was utterly alien, even to it! But it developed a degenerative disease as a result of the cannibalism, which scared the other elder brains into attempting to banish it from reality in fear of the disease spreading, [[What\|because apparently the threat of treacherous cannibalism wasn't scary enough]].

	An elder brain that wants to increase their mobility can parasitize a dragon and merge with them to become an Elder Brain Dragon. They probably got jealous of how cool the brainstealer dragon is. The possessed dragon loses their breath weapon but can spray illithid tadpoles from its mouth.		An elder brain that wants to increase their mobility can parasitize a dragon and merge with them to become an Elder Brain Dragon. They probably got jealous of how cool the brainstealer dragon is. The possessed dragon loses their breath weapon but can spray illithid tadpoles from its mouth.

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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 ~~a counterpart~~ in 5th edition called an elder brain dragon, which is not a ceremorph, see below.		*'''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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