Editing Mind flayers

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| description = Mind flayers are a non-playable race in Baldur's Gate 3. They are a type of Aberration. Mind Flayers are also known as Illithids. 
| image = Mind Flayer.jpg
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| image = Mind Flayer Nautiloid.PNG
| str = 11
| dex = 12
| con = 12
| int = 19
| wis = 17
| cha = 17
| int_save_proficiency = y
| wis_save_proficiency = y
| cha_save_proficiency = y
| level = 8
| name = Mind Flayer
| size = Medium
| type = Aberration
| imagesize = 100px
| armour_class = 15
| hit_points_tactician = 92
| hit_points = 71
| weight_kg = 60
| weight_lb = 120
| feature1_name = Magic Resistance
| feature1_description = Advantage on Saving Throws against spells and magical effects
| feature2_name = Opportunity Attack
| feature2_description = Automatically attack an enemy moving out of reach
| feature3_name = Charm
| feature3_mode = Tactician
| feature3_description = Prevent an enemy from attacking you until next turn, as a reaction
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'''Mind flayers''' or '''illithids''' are a non-playable [[race|race]] of [[List_of_Creature_Types#Aberration|Aberration]] creatures. The [[Githyanki]] word for mind flayer is ''ghaik''. Multiple specific creatures titled '''Mind Flayer''' also exist in the game and are, as their names would suggest, all mind flayers.

== Overview ==
{{Q|Psionic tyrants, slavers, and interdimensional voyagers that feed off the brains of thinking creatures.<br><br>Most belong to a hivemind colony devoted to an elder brain, and all work towards achieving the Grand Design - their dream of once more controlling empires that span the multiverse.|author=in-game racial description}}
Mind flayers are psionic aberrations with a humanoid-like figure and a tentacled head that communicate using telepathy. They feast on the brains of intelligent beings and can enthrall other creatures to their will. Every mind flayer is connected to an [[Elder Brain]], a colossal and powerful psionic brain that commands the mind flayers it is linked to.

Mind flayers reproduce by infecting other creatures with a [[Mind Flayer Tadpole|tadpole]]<nowiki/> that consumes its host from the inside, transforming them into another mind flayer in a process called {{FRWiki|ceremorphosis}}.

Thousands of years ago, mind flayers were a dominant planar power. Using massive flying vessels called [[Nautiloid (Creature)|Nautiloid]]s, they traveled to hundreds of worlds, harvesting intelligent humanoids to consume, propagate their race, and use as slave labour. One of their enslaved races, the [[Gith|gith]], rose up and destroyed their empire, leaving only small pockets of mind flayers behind.

== Interactions ==
Mind flayers play a major role as antagonists throughout the game, from the prologue into the endgame. Though most are immediately hostile, in some cases a mind flayer can be friendly or downright ingratiating. Whether their pleasantness is genuine or a self-serving veneer on their psionic charms is often left for the player to contemplate.
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| str = 11
| dex = 12
| con = 12
| int = 19
| wis = 17
| cha = 17
| int_save_proficiency = y
| wis_save_proficiency = y
| cha_save_proficiency = y
| level = 8
| name = Mind Flayer (Prologue)
| size = Medium
| type = Aberration
| imagesize = 100px
| armour_class = 15
| hit_points_tactician = 110
| hit_points = 85
| weight_kg = 60
| weight_lb = 120
| feature1_name = Magic Resistance
| feature1_description = Advantage on Saving Throws against spells and magical effects
| feature2_name = Opportunity Attack
| feature2_description = Automatically attack an enemy moving out of reach
}}

=== Creatures encountered ===

* A unique mind flayer in the prologue has a slightly larger health pool than mind flayers encountered later in the game. It also does not gain {{SAI|Charm}} on [[Tactician]].
* [[Illithid Arcanist]]

=== Characters encountered ===
{{Spoiler warning|act=3}}
* [[Omeluum]]
* [[The Emperor]]
* In the endgame, the player can choose to transform a character [[Full-illithid|completely into a mind flayer]]:
** [[Origins|Avatar character]]
** [[Karlach]]
** [[Orpheus]]

== Attacks and abilities ==
{{Feature box|name=Mind Blast
|{{Action}}

{{Saving Throw|INT|dc=15}} to avoid damage and becoming [[Stunned (Condition)|Stunned]].{{DamageInfo|4d8+4|Psychic}}{{Recharge|Per Round}}.
}}

{{Feature box|name=Tentacle Lash|image name=Generic Physical.webp
|{{Action}}

{{Attack Roll}}: +7

{{Saving Throw|INT|dc=15}}{{DamageInfo|2d10+4|Psychic}}
}}

==Gallery==
<gallery heights="250" mode="nolines" widths="200">
File:Mind Flayer.jpg|A mind flayer in Early Access
File:Mind Flayer Model.png|Mind flayer model
File:Mind Flayer Lunch.PNG|Mind flayer consuming a brain
</gallery>

== External links ==
{{FRWiki|Mind flayer|long}}

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