Mind Flayer
Mind flayers, also known as illithids (pronounced: /ɪlˈlɪθɪdz/ il-LITH-idz, meaning "mind flayers" or "mind rulers" in Undercommon), were evil and sadistic aberrations, feared by sentient creatures on many worlds across the multiverse due to their powerful innate psionic abilities. Dwellers of deep Underdark areas, these alien humanoid-looking beings sought to expand their dominion over all other creatures, controlling their minds to use them as hopeless slaves and devouring their brains for sustenance.
Their natural psionic abilities also made mind flayers respected in the eyes of the drow, beholders, duergar, and other dominant races of the Underdark.
Description
Mind flayers were humanoid in appearance but with an octopus-like, ridged head with four tentacles surrounding a lamprey-like mouth.[2][5][14] They were warm-blooded amphibians, whose blood had a silvery-white color. Their hands had long, reddish fingers and lacked the index finger, and their feet were two-toed and webbed. Mind flayer eyes were extremely sensitive to bright light, and they considered it painful, a characteristic that some githyanki scholars attributed to the fact that their alien anatomy focused light in a strange way. Their vision was also more sensitive to the recognition of geometric patterns than that of other humanoids. Mind flayers that were healthy from brain-rich diets excreted a kind of slimy mucous substance that coated their mauve skins. - skarsnikRemove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
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