Omeluum

Omeluum
Level 5
Role	Trader
Voiced by	Glen McCready
Information
Race	Mind flayer
Hometown	Baldur's Gate
Stats
Size	Medium
Type	Aberration
Armour Class	11
Hit points	62
Movement speed	9 m (30 ft)
Weight	50 kg (100 lb)
Initiative	1
Ability scores
STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 11 (+0) 12 (+1) 12 (+1) 18 (+4) 16 (+3) 16 (+3)
Proficiency bonus	+3
Saving throws	Str 0 Dex +1 Con +1 Int +4 Wis +3 Cha +3
Features
Opportunity Attack	Automatically attack an enemy moving out of your reach.
Extra Attack	Make an additional free attack after an unarmed or weapon attack.
Charm	Can Charm an enemy as a reaction.

Omeluum is a friendly mind flayer and trader in Baldur's Gate 3. Omeluum can be found at Ebonlake Grotto in the Underdark after being contacted by Blurg. It is a member of the Society of Brilliance and can be asked for help to remove the tadpole.

Overview

Background

Omeluum was born with a propensity for arcane magic, giving it the strength to resist the elder brain and defect. Following its ambitions to better the world, Omeluum joined the Society of Brilliance, and now conducts research with its friend and fellow member, Blurg. Currently, they are working to improve living conditions in the Underdark.

Quests

• Help Omeluum investigate the parasite
• Retrieve Omeluum

Involvement

Act One

The player can first meet Omeluum after talking to the Hobgoblin trader Blurg at the Myconid Colony. Blurg is a fellow scholar of the Society of Brilliance, who will bring Omeluum to help the player.

The player has several opportunities to attack Omeluum during dialogue, and some Companions might actually suggest it. If the player listens to Omeluum they will learn that it is a rogue member of its society who was born with special powers that allow it to resist the control of the Elder Brain of its colony. Omeluum feeds on the brains of cruel and sadistic creatures of the Underdark, and wishes to help the Illithid society by discovering a brain-free diet.

Should the player accept the Help Omeluum investigate the parasite quest and bring Omeluum the required ingredients, it will attempt to remove the tadpole. Omeluum will not only fail, but also make the tadpole more powerful (granting whomever drank the potion Survival Instinct). The Mindflayer will be surprised and worried about the power of the tadpole, and will apologize for not being of service.

Unable to bring the issue to a close, Omeluum will then offer the player the Ring of Mind-Shielding, which can limit the powers of the tadpole. The player can either buy this ring or convince Omeluum to give it to them by PERSUADING (DC 15), INTIMIDATING (DC 20), or proposing to describe the inner structure of a Nautiloid. The latter demands either a DC 10 INTELLIGENCE check and has an Advantage if the player has read a relevant Rune Slate while being on the ship in the Prologue, or a DC 10 PERFORMANCE check.

After passing the ring to the player (by any available way), the quest Help Omeluum investigate the parasite will be complete, and Omeluum becomes open for trading with the party. He has several unique items in stock (see below). Purchasing from him a book On Illithids, Volume XXVI and reading it earns the Inspirational Event The Forbidden Arcane (Sage background).

Act Three

If Steal a Githyanki Egg was resolved without Lady Esther receiving the githyanki egg, then in Chapter Three Blurg informs us at the Society of Brilliance Lodge that Omeluum travelled with him to report their findings to the Society of Brilliance, but it has now gone missing. He asks you to track Omeluum down. This starts the Retrieve Omeluum quest.

You will find Omeluum in the south west corner of the Iron Throne. It will become a temporary companion with the ability to Teleport to Submersible. Once rescued, Omeluum returns to the Lodge. It cannot be traded with, although it can be pickpocketed.

Shop

Corresponds to UND_SocietyOfBrilliance_Mindflayer.

Notable items sold

As a trader, Omeluum will sell the following items:

• Creation's Echo
• Pearl of Power Amulet
• Boots of Stormy Clamour
• Ring of Salving
• The Shadespell Circlet
• On Illithids, Volume XXVI

Attacks and Abilities

•  Sleep
•  Dissonant Whispers
•  Hold Person
•  Blur
•  Silence
•  Mind Blast
•  Mind Flayer Domination
•  Levitate (Illithid Power)
•  Teleport to Submersible (While in the Iron Throne)

Gallery

• 

  Omeluum's Early Access appearance.

• 

  Current version.

• 

  Omeluum's model.

Notes

• As an illithid, Omeluum is addressed using the "it" pronoun.
• Omeluum's origins are remarkably similar to Grazilaxx, another illithid appearing within the Fifth Edition module, Out of the Abyss. Both of them previously worked with a lich before working with the Society of Brilliance.
  • Omeluum is specifically differentiated as not being the same character, as the text of 'An History of the Society of Brilliance as Told by Its Members' mentions both Omeluum and Grazilaxx as separate colleagues in the society, having founded it together with Blurg and several others.
  • As Blurg was initially mentioned as an Orog in Out of the Abyss, with some remnant dialogue that seems to make reference to this idea, it is possible that both of them underwent changes in development; with Omeluum originally intended to be Grazilaxx.
• Omeluum will teleport away after repeated pickpocket attempts.

External links

• Omeluum on the Forgotten Realms Wiki