Mind flayers: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox creature

| name = Mind Flayer

| image = <gallery>

Mind Flayer Model.png|Model

Portrait Mind Flayer.png|Portrait

| level = 8

| size = [[Medium]]

| type = [[Aberration]]

| ac = 15

| t hp = 92

| hp = 71

| weight kg = 60

| str = 11

| dex = 12

| con = 12

| int = 19

| wis = 17

| cha = 17

| int save prof = y

| wis save prof = y

| cha save prof = y

| passives = Magic Resistance, Opportunity Attack

| t passives = Charm, Magic Resistance, Opportunity Attack

'''Mind Flayers''' or '''illithids''' are a non-playable [[Race]] of [[List_of_Creature_Types#Aberration|Aberration]] creatures. In [[Githyanki]] language they are called ''ghaik''. Multiple Mind Flayer characters exist in the game.

Mind flayers are psionic aberrations with a humanoid-like figure and a tentacled head that communicate using telepathy. They feast on the brains of intelligent beings and can enthrall other creatures to their will. Every mind flayer is connected to an [[Elder Brain]], a colossal and powerful psionic brain that commands the mind flayers it is linked to.

Mind flayers reproduce by infecting other creatures with a [[Mind Flayer Tadpole]] that consumes its host from the inside, transforming them into another mind flayer in a process called {{FRWiki|Ceremorphosis}}.

Thousands of years ago, mind flayers were a dominant planar power. Using massive flying vessels called [[Nautiloid (Creature)|Nautiloid]]s, they traveled to hundreds of worlds, harvesting intelligent humanoids to consume, propagate their race, and use as slave labour. One of their enslaved races, the [[Gith]], rose up and destroyed their empire, leaving only small pockets of mind flayers behind.

== Involvement ==

Mind flayers play a major role as antagonists throughout the game, from the prologue into the endgame. Though most are immediately hostile, in some cases a mind flayer can be friendly or downright ingratiating. Whether their pleasantness is genuine or a self-serving veneer on their psionic charms is often unknown.

== Combat ==

=== Attacks and abilities ===

{{Feature box|Mind Blast}}

{{Feature box|Tentacle Whip (Illithid)}}

* {{MdCharLink|Mind flayer (nautiloid wreck)}}

* In the endgame, it is possible to transform a character [[Full-illithid|completely into a mind flayer]]:

== Mind Flayer enemy variants ==

* {{MdCharLink|Illithid Arcanist}}

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File:Mind Flayer.jpg|A mind flayer in Early Access

== External links ==

[[Category:Races]]

[[Category:Non-playable races]]