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Mind flayer
Mind flayers or illithids are a non-playable[1] race of the aberration type. In Githyanki language, they are called ghaik. Multiple mind flayer characters exist in the game.
“Psionic tyrants, slavers, and interdimensional voyagers that feed off the brains of thinking creatures.
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.„
About mind flayers[edit section | visual editor]
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 enthral 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 that consumes its host from the inside, transforming them into another mind flayer in a process called 
Thousands of years ago, mind flayers were a dominant planar power. Using massive flying vessels called Nautiloids, they travelled to hundreds of worlds, harvesting intelligent humanoids to consume, propagate their race, and use as slave labour. One of their enslaved races, the gith, rose up to destroy their empire, leaving only small hidden pockets of mind flayers alive.
Racial features[edit section | visual editor]
- 9m / 30ft
- Medium
- Has
Mind flayer characters[edit section | visual editor]
Mind flayer enemy variants[edit section | visual editor]
Gallery[edit section | visual editor]
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Mind flayer consuming a brain -
Render by Nikolai Chugunov -
Shirtless Render by Nikolai Chugunov
Notes and references[edit section | visual editor]
- ↑ Although certain choices can lead to a party member becoming an illithid, their transformation into one is only possible late in the game. Illithid cannot be chosen as a starting race in an unmodified version of the game.
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