Mindflayer Biology - It's Very Purple

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  @dovienya737 · 3 months ago

  Pancreas not talking elves for the first 2 video’s on his new channel shows a terrifying level of restraint.

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  @FancifulProdigy · 3 months ago

  The Elder Brain cut me off from the hive mind after I asked if the illithids ever got experimental with their tentacles

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  @archeogeek315 · 3 months ago

  Immensly disapointed that the conclusion wasn't : "Thank you again to my wonderful channel members, you are the Illithids to my elder brain".

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  @Peptuck · 3 months ago

  I like the implication of the Neothelid, as they imply that they are the "natural" state of the Mind Flayer tadpoles, since they are what happens if the tadpoles are left on their own to fend for themselves. These gigantic abominations are the natural state of the mind flayers if nothing gets involved in their life cycle and that is so cool.

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  @Ignisrex · 3 months ago

  the fact that a neothelid is the natural endpoint of a mindflayer tadpoles, they are probably what they were originally, maybe some particularlly ancient neothelid used its psionic powers and its own brood to turn people into its servants. Let that go on for long enough and you get mindflayers.<br><br>Also beaming concentrated brainrot into the mindflayer hivemind until their own brains explode

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• CR

  @crimsonglory7494 · 3 months ago

  I’d make a mindflayer starve

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• DE

  @deltarno7502 · 3 months ago

  One additional fun fact, mindflayers hate their undead counterparts due to the fact that most undead are immune to psychic powers. &nbsp;So if you see a group of Mindflayer hooligans readying baseball bats and tire irons, now you know why.<br>Now, Beholders next, please!

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• AU

  @Auq_Qug · 3 months ago

  Mindflayers are my second favourite original fantasy race right next to skaven.

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• IA

  @iainhynes1794 · 3 months ago

  Do or Don&apos;t Paladin. My favorite class.<br><br>Either that, or a video on Bahamut. How can one not love the inspiration behind Blue Eyes White Dragon.

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• RU

  @rustyshovel7179 · 3 months ago

  I keep thinking about how The Ood from doctor who are literally just Mind Flayers but good guys.

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  @jkee9760 · 3 months ago

  &quot;Thats not even fantasy that&apos;s sci-fi&quot; Charlie from smiling friends

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  @skarletfenrir6979 · 3 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faBd74TVxWo&amp;t=227">3:47</a> its actually pretty simple: most races have a high chance of either simply not surviving Ceremorphosis or ending up as weird mutants and not 1s the Illithid are ok with. Combine that with how few Tadpoles survive and it means Illithid have to be somewhat picky. Off the top of my head Giants are too big for a single Tadpole to complete the process but they dont have enough greymatter for 2 Tadpoles to survive and thats where Ettins come in, twice the heads means twice the brains which means JUST enough for Ceremorphosis to technically be successful. The reason I say technically is Psionically they are weaker than a normal Mind Flayer and slightly dumber(I think they have an 18 Int instead of 19) however they are significantly bigger and stronger so in the rare cases they are made they tend to act as a sort of Honor Guard for the Elder Brain. They are known as Ettin Ceremorphs(Ceremorphs being what the few &quot;acceptable&quot; mutants are called) and 1 head is sunken into the body and is in charge of motor control and the other is in charge of cognition and Psionics

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