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	==Far Realm Neh-thalggu==		==Far Realm Neh-thalggu==
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	===Dungeon Version===		===Dungeon Version===
	Brain collectors encroach upon the [[Prime Material\|Material Plane]] from the inconceivable [[Far Realm]] in what is actually their larval stage. Terrible beings of unspeakable and unwholesome desires, these monsters are driven to ollect brains and use the knowledge locked within these organs to further their own transformation into beings of godlike power ([[Epic Level Handbook]] 207). Uncaring of the empty husks cast aside by their feeding, these alien predators use their fleshy meals to generate great bursts of arcane energy. While even the weakest are capable of devouring the sentience from whole regions, a fully ascended neh-thallggu rivals even the eldest dragons and some demon lords in ferocity and arcane might.		Brain collectors encroach upon the [[Prime Material\|Material Plane]] from the inconceivable [[Far Realm]] in what is actually their larval stage. Terrible beings of unspeakable and unwholesome desires, these monsters are driven to ollect brains and use the knowledge locked within these organs to further their own transformation into beings of godlike power ([[Epic Level Handbook]] 207). Uncaring of the empty husks cast aside by their feeding, these alien predators use their fleshy meals to generate great bursts of arcane energy. While even the weakest are capable of devouring the sentience from whole regions, a fully ascended neh-thallggu rivals even the eldest dragons and some demon lords in ferocity and arcane might.
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	==Golarion Neh-thalggu==		==Golarion Neh-thalggu==
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	Neh-thalggus are aliens from distant worlds, traveling the gulfs of space on immense living ships that swiftly decay when they land upon a new world, leaving behind a deadly cargo of hungry monsters. Neh-thalggus are carnivores, but they do not digest humanoid brains they eat—rather, these brains lodge in one of several bulbous blisters on the Creature’s back and help to increase its intellect.		Neh-thalggus are aliens from distant worlds, traveling the gulfs of space on immense living ships that swiftly decay when they land upon a new world, leaving behind a deadly cargo of hungry monsters. Neh-thalggus are carnivores, but they do not digest humanoid brains they eat—rather, these brains lodge in one of several bulbous blisters on the Creature’s back and help to increase its intellect.

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	==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==		==Mystaran Neh-thalggu==
	[[File:Neh-thalggu MC Mystara.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|''Monstrous Compendium: Mystara Appendix'']]		[[File:Neh-thalggu MC Mystara.jpg\|right\|300px\|thumb\|''Monstrous Compendium: Mystara Appendix'']]
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	Brain collectors (Neh-thalggu in their own language) are rare creatures who occasionally cross the barriers separating their distant home from the Prime Material Plane. Only near sources of great magical energy, where the fabric of time and space is twisted, can they find small gateways to Mystara, where they collect the brains of intelligent beings.		Brain collectors (Neh-thalggu in their own language) are rare creatures who occasionally cross the barriers separating their distant home from the Prime Material Plane. Only near sources of great magical energy, where the fabric of time and space is twisted, can they find small gateways to Mystara, where they collect the brains of intelligent beings.

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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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	[[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.