The Emperor/Combat

Medium Aberration
Level 12
Stats
Armour Class	18
Hit points	140
Movement speed	9 m (30 ft)
Weight	50 kg (120 lb)
Initiative	+2
Ability scores
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 12 (+1) 10 (0) 10 (0) 22 (+6) 18 (+4) 10 (0)
Proficiency bonus	+4
Saving throws	Str +1 Dex 0 Con 0 Int +10 Wis +8 Cha +4

The Emperor

Combat

Dream Guardian

This page focuses on the Emperor's behaviour during turn-based combat gameplay. This page is a list of information, rather than a guide. Please refer to separate pages for full combat guides.

The Emperor possesses a number of illithid abilities commonly used by other mind flayers, and in some encounters will have other unique abilities with special functions.

Actions

Common

• Opportunity Attack (Main Hand Attack)
• Telekinesis

Notable or Unique

• Levitate
• Mind Blast
• Tentacle Whip
• Mind Flayer Domination

Conditions

This information is not specified on The Emperor's Examine page, but has resulted from contributor testing. If this information varies depending on whether The Emperor is hostile, allied, or neutral, then please specify this in the applicable section.

Immunities

Immunities include Conditions that, according to in-game UI messages, cannot be afflicted onto this character. Conditions that are not explicit "Immune to" messages can still go in this section, but please provide more detail about what combat actions are prevented.

The Emperor is immune to all of the following Conditions:

Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities include specific named Conditions that can be afflicted onto this character, even if the chance of successfully afflicting this condition on the character is really, really low.

The Emperor can be affected by all of the following Conditions:

• Sluggardly
• Shredded Armour

Encounters

This section is a list of specific combat encounters where The Emperor gets added into the initiative, and any specific differences about how The Emperor can behave in each combat encounter.

Help Your Protector - Astral Plane

This encounter is triggered by the quest Help Your Protector during Act Three.

• Even if friendly, the player cannot control his actions like a companion or summon.
• When the Emperor takes enough damage, they will use at least one Potion of Superior Healing. Inventory has not been verified to determine how many of these potions are available.

Things to know about The Emperor's behavior in this fight:

• When The Emperor's hit points reach 0, the combat encounter immediately ends and triggers a cutscene. Details of this cutscene are intentionally omitted from this page, because this page is about combat information.

Confront the Elder Brain - Upper City

When it is finally time to Confront the Elder Brain, the Emperor can proceed as the player's ally during this final mixture of open-world and combat gameplay. The Emperor will be attached to one character like a summon for the duration of this experience.

As soon as cutscenes end, the player is able to "switch to" the view of The Emperor like any other summon or friendly character. All of his Hotbar buttons are found on the "Common" Tab.

This version of The Emperor has access to:

• 2x Potions of Angelic Reprieve (but no other inventory)
• Common Actions of: Dash, Hide, Disengage, Jump, Main Hand Attack, and Topple
• Common Spells of: Telekinesis, Chain Lightning, Evard's Black Tentacles, Mind Blast,
• Illithid / Mind Flayer abilities of: Tentacle Whip, Extract Brain, Potent Concentrated Blast, Mind Flayer Domination

Depending on the player's choices, the Emperor may also have access to:

• Karsus' Compulsion

Things to know about The Emperor's behavior in this fight:

• When The Emperor's hit points reach 0, they will become "downed" like any other controllable ally, and will make death saving throws.

Confront the Elder Brain - Atop

Name of this encounter truncated to make the Table of Contents easier to read

• The Emperor has all of the same abilities as the Upper City encounter.
  • The Emperor can be downed, and can die, but revivify and resurrection methods are allowed. On death then resurrection, for some reason, any unused potions of angelic reprieve will be dropped on the ground.
  • The Emperor is capable of casting spells off of some, but not all scrolls, if players open up the group inventory screen while the Emperor is actively selected, and right-mouse-clicks on the scroll item (PC Platforms only). The criteria allowing or disallowing the use of a scroll is unclear.