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Feed the Mind Flayer is a quest in Act Three of Baldur's Gate 3. It can be started by speaking with the starving mind flayer in Rivington.
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Objectives
- A ravenous mind flayer asked us to bring it a humanoid to feast on.
- We killed a humanoid for the mind flayer - hopefully this will sate its hunger.
- We defeated the mind flayer.
- We convinced the starving mind flayer to hunt for its food.
- We left without helping the mind flayer.
- The now-sated mind flayer granted us a boon of psionic power.
Walkthrough
Screaming can be heard from the abandoned windmill in Rivington X: 44 Y: -32. Lockpicking the old rusty door allows the party to investigate. A hatch leads to the windmill basement, with an unconscious mind flayer within.
Interacting with the Mind Flayer provides the following choices:
- It doesn't feel very fortunate.
- Wake the newborn mind flayer.
- Attack the creature before it wakes up.
- [STEALTH] Sneak away.
Choosing to attack the creature immediately starts combat with a level 8 mind flayer. Killing it provides a Mind Flayer Brain, which can be consumed, as well as a Windmill Key, Ring of Truthfulness, Bloodstone, and Absolute Orders: Newborn. Consuming the brain grants one illithid potential.
If the player chooses to wake the newborn, they can hear its demands.
- What do you need?
- Was it you I heard screaming when I entered the windmill?
- Attack!
- Leave
It needs a fresh brain to feed on. This can be responded to in a multitude of ways:
- I'll see what I can do.
- I can fetch you a corpse, freshly killed. Brain intact.
- I never work for free.
- [PERSUASION] Go find your own meal! Even weakened you're more powerful than anything out there.
- I'm not going to bring you food.
Suitable corpses
If the party agrees to help the Mind Flayer, they need to find a corpse. Any random corpse will do, including killing random NPCs. Previously existing corpses will also work. Some options include:
- Dead Refugee near the Ironforge Gnome hideout X: 45 Y: 66
- Murdered Refugee in the Well in front of Sword Coast Couriers
- Brilgor buried behind the Open Hand Temple X: -106 Y: -19
- Father Lorgan in the Open Hand Temple X: -57 Y: -22
- Ffion Goldgrind on the upper levels of Fraygo's Flophouse X: -13 Y: 76
The party needs to pick up the corpse and bring it back to the mind flayer, to be rewarded with one skill point for the illithid powers tree. If the mind flayer is fed, it will leave the windmill after a long rest. It will later re-appear in the Lower City, killing a couple of NPCs. The mind flayer can still be killed for its brain after giving it a corpse, but consuming it at this point will not grant an additional illithid skill point.
If the mind flayer is persuaded to get its own meal, it simply leaves the windmill to go hunt.
Quest rewards
Kill the mind flayer
- Ring of Truthfulness
- Mind Flayer Brain (grants one point for the illithid powers skill tree if consumed, just like a Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen)
Feed the mind flayer
- Ring of Truthfulness
- One point for the illithid powers skill tree