Evading the Elder Brain

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Properties

• Books
• Rarity: Common
•  Weight: 0.5 kg / 1 lb
• Price: 14 gp

Where to find

• In the Steel Watch Foundry Security Room
• On a table in the Undercity Ruins, at the Morphic Pool Dock. X: -82 Y: 1148

Text

Spoiler warning! This text might contain spoilers about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

The 'Emperor' as interrogated by Gortash, Part 3

Gortash: When we captured you, you were a rogue, an autonomous illithid beyond the power of the elder brain that transformed you.

Emperor: That is correct.

Gortash: When we brought you back into the psionic ambit of our hovering friend the Absolute, your defences were overwhelmed and you returned to your former servile state.

Emperor: Also correct.

Gortash: How did you escape the control of the elder brain in the first place?

Emperor: In my original humanoid form, I possessed an exceptionally strong personality - so much so that even after ceremorphosis I was still substantially 'myself'. Of course, I concealed this beneath a semblance of perfect servitude.

Gortash: And that's why the elder brain was willing to send you out of the colony on scouting missions?

Emperor: Yes, as I told you before.

Gortash: How long did you feign mental slavery before you were able to escape?

Emperor: Thirteen and three-quarters years.

Gortash: Until finally you were given a mission to Baldur's Gate, distant enough to be out of the elder brain's control?

Emperor: That is correct.

Gortash: Remarkable.

Emperor: That is correct.

Gortash: And you don't mind that we've brought you back under psionic control?

Emperor: I am entirely devoted to the needs of our elder brain and of its masters.

Gortash: You're not lying about that, right?

Emperor: Correct. That would be impossible.