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	[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Pathfinder]] [[Category: Monsters]] [[Category: Mystara]]		[[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Pathfinder]] [[Category: Monsters]] [[Category: Mystara]]
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	The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are. They're in ''DMR2: Creature Catalog'' like everything else that didn't make the BXCMI sets.		The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are. They're in ''DMR2: Creature Catalog'' like everything else that didn't make the BXCMI sets.

	They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]; then as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.		They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]; then as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors. They returned to the game for 5th edition in Boo's Astral Menagerie.

	==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==		==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==

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	[[File:Neh-thalggu X2.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|The original Neh-thalggu art from module X2.]]		[[File:Neh-thalggu X2.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|The original Neh-thalggu art from module X2.]]
	The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.		The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are. They're in ''DMR2: Creature Catalog'' like everything else that didn't make the BXCMI sets.

	They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]; then as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.		They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]; then as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.

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	The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.		The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.

	They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. ~~In 3rd edition, the [[Creature Catalog]] updated their stats, and then~~ [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]~~, and~~ as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.		They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]; then as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.

	==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==		==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==

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	The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.		The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.

	They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. In 3rd edition, the [[Creature Catalog]] updated their stats, and then [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic ~~Level~~]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]], and as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.		They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. In 3rd edition, the [[Creature Catalog]] updated their stats, and then [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]], and as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.

	==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==		==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==

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	[[File:Neh-thalggu X2.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|The original Neh-thalggu art from module X2.]]		[[File:Neh-thalggu X2.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|The original Neh-thalggu art from module X2.]]
	The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.		The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.

	They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. In 3rd edition, the [[Creature Catalog]] updated their stats, and then [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Level]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]], and as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.		They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. In 3rd edition, the [[Creature Catalog]] updated their stats, and then [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Level]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]], and as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.

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	[[File:Neh-thalggu X2.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|The original Neh-thalggu art from module X2.]]		[[File:Neh-thalggu X2.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|The original Neh-thalggu art from module X2.]]
	The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are.		The '''Neh-thalggu''', or '''Brain Collectors''', are an [[aberration]] originating from the [[Dungeons & Dragons]] module ''[[X2: Castle Amber]]''. [[Retcon]]ned into the [[Demiplane of Nightmares\|Dimension of Nightmares]], where they are figures of dread and awe to the [[diabolus]] race in much the same way that [[dragon]]s are to [[human]]s; a neh-thalggu is a grotesque monster, somewhere between a crab and a spider, with a toothy maw, myriad tentacles, and bulging blisters that they use to house human brains. Unlike the common [[illithid]] (which branched from the same [[Clark Ashton Smith]] root), neh-thalggu don't merely eat brains; rather, they are able to enhance their own mental prowess by storing stolen brains - the more brains stashed in their preservative blister-wombs, the more powerful they are. They're in ''DMR2: Creature Catalog'' like everything else that didn't make the BXCMI sets.

	They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]; then as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.		They were subsequently updated to [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] in the [[Mystara]] Monstrous Compendium Appendix. [[Bruce Cordell]] did 'em in 3.5 for [[Epic Levels\|epic tier]] monsters in the [[Epic Level Handbook]]; then as a more reasonable CR 7 creature in issue #144 of [[Dungeon Magazine]], officially representing the "larval stage" of the epic version. Despite this, such is their obscurity that [[Pathfinder]] managed to use them in their [[Golarion]] setting, slipping them into their 2nd Pathfinder Bestiary [[splatbook]], whilst the Iron Gods adventure path would present its "mature" form, the ''Yah-thelgaad'' in part 4: Valley of the Brain Collectors.