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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Brains in Jars Depending on your campaign, you might wish to identify some or all of the monastery’s brains with other figures from D&D lore. Perhaps the monastery has long been home to obscure or
options might be available to characters wanting to achieve this end. Most easily, the brains can guide characters through the process of transferring their intellect into a host such as a slain monk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
The Importance of Brains Because of their dietary needs and their otherworldly biology, mind flayers must remain within hunting distance of intelligent humanoids, even if doing so makes them
vulnerable to attack from their enemies. They use the brains of such creatures as food, of course, but they also need sentient humanoids to propagate. Food for Thought When a mind flayer devours a brain, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Brains in Iron (The Council) This creature originated from old designs of Kwalish, and takes the form of multiple brains that have been magically preserved and which collectively operate a new
mechanical body. The brains share insights and knowledge with one another, and have typically been taken from creatures that desired to prolong their consciousness—or that were tasked with controlling a
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
brains to cast the spell, as indicated:
1/day each: arms of Hadar (1 brain), detect magic (2 brains), magic missile (3 brains), Tenser's floating disk (4 brains), darkness (5 brains), hold person (6
brains), invisibility (7 brains), spider climb (8 brains), fear (9 brains), hypnotic pattern (10 brains), major image (11 brains), stinking cloud (12 brains)Known throughout the multiverse as brain
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Brains Devoured. When the eater of knowledge is first encountered, roll 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Brains Devoured"} to determine the number of brains it has
following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as its spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15). It must have consumed the requisite number of brains to cast the spell, as
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
existence. They prowl subterranean passages, using their rudimentary psionic abilities to search out and incapacitate brains to sate their constant hunger, growing ever more vicious. These creatures can
spray tissue-dissolving enzymes from their tentacle ducts, reducing victims to puddles of slime and leaving only the pulsing brains unharmed. They have no knowledge of their link to illithids, so
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
propel it along whatever surface it’s floating above. Most mind flayers destroy squidlings on sight, so it’s rare to see one or more of these creatures.
Squidlings eat brains for sustenance, just like other mind flayers do, and they don’t care where the brains come from.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
reacts to its surroundings. Some brains have been known to thump against the walls of their containers when excited or vexed. A jar’s metal casing might be rusty but serviceable, or an elegantly
wrought masterwork, depending on its creator. Still other brains desire nothing more than to regain a body. This might be the brain’s original body, another frame they covet, or some more
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
psionic abilities and the accumulated memories of its constituents.Bludgeoning, Piercing, SlashingIllumination. The swarm sheds dim light from its brains in a 5-foot radius, increases the illumination to
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
experiments all ended in failure: a giant’s body is simply too large for a single tadpole to take over.
Ettin;Ettins, however, proved to be perfect subjects. An ettin’s two brains provide
ceremorphs serve mind flayer colonies, protecting the elder brain;elder brains that rule the communities and guarding their treasures. They retain no memory of their previous existence as ettins.Psychic
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
breakers look like giant brains with stout legs, and they wear steel armor made from interlocked links of Ilvaash’s runes (knots of tentacles, brains, and jagged lines reminiscent of jaws).Psychic
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
addition to feasting on brains, a mind flayer clairvoyant can summon tentacles that rip through the fabric of reality and distort the minds of enemies.
Mind Flayers
Mind flayers, also known as
illithids, feast on the brains of Humanoids across the multiverse. They are distinguished by their purple-toned skin and octopus-like heads, from which extend writhing tentacles.Psychic
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
illithids devour the victims’ brains while the psurlons consume the rest of the prey. Githyanki despise psurlons because of this alliance and attack psurlon strongholds in the Astral Sea
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
focus their innate psionic power.
Mind Flayers
Mind flayers, also known as illithids, feast on the brains of Humanoids across the multiverse. They are distinguished by their purple-toned skin and octopus-like heads, from which extend writhing tentacles.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
telepathy.Bludgeoning, Piercing, SlashingIllumination. The swarm sheds dim light from its brains in a 5-foot radius, increases the illumination to bright light in a 5- to 20-foot radius (and dim light for an additional number of feet equal to the chosen radius), or extinguishes the light.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, rewriting their thoughts and authoring their dreams.
An elder brain sustains itself by consuming the brains of other creatures. If its mind flayer servants don’t bring meals directly to it, the
master, which then absorbs the knowledge and experience contained therein. Mind flayers conceive of this oneness with the elder brain as a sacred state akin to an afterlife.
Hive Mind
Elder brains
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
the Material Plane, psurlons have been known to work with mind flayer;mind flayers. Together, they collect victims to feed on; the illithids devour the victims’ brains while the psurlons consume
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
intended victims.
On the Material Plane, psurlons have been known to work with mind flayer;mind flayers. Together, they collect victims to feed on; the illithids devour the victims’ brains while
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
them and their existential imperatives. Although they possess the telepathic abilities of mind flayers, their brains aren’t equipped to employ them. Instead, they bombard nearby creatures with a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the colony.
This process doesn’t work on the brain of an ulitharid that dies a natural death, as such brains are too decrepit to be used. Instead, each ulitharid carries a psionically enhanced
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
that path is long and fraught with barriers. Alhoons are mind flayers who have used a shortcut to attain a lichlike state.
Elder brains forbid mind flayers from pursuing magic power aside from psionics
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.This creature originated from old designs of Kwalish, and takes the form of multiple brains that have been magically preserved and which collectively
operate a new mechanical body. The brains share insights and knowledge with one another, and have typically been taken from creatures that desired to prolong their consciousness — or that were tasked
Swarm of Cranium Rats
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
Illumination. As a bonus action, the swarm can shed dim light from its brains in a 5-foot radius, increase the illumination to bright light in a 5- to 20-foot radius (and dim light for an additional
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
squelching muscles and exposed brain matter. These rugose hulks collect information from others by devouring brains before returning to their masters with delicious secrets. Unlike illithids, which
overwhelm their foes with psionic power, eaters of knowledge use their physical strength to hold prey while burly feeding tentacles crack free their victims’ brains. Consuming brains fuels these brutes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Neh-thalggu Known throughout the multiverse as brain collectors, neh-thalggu consume the brains of Humanoids and use them as receptacles to enhance their magical abilities. Neh-thalggu are born in
the nightmarish Far Realm, but they spread across the Astral Plane and find their way onto the various worlds of the Material Plane, where brains are much more abundant. A neh-thalggu has a bulbous body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. The ship’s mind flayer captain (see “Captain N’ghathrod”) was forced to eat the brains of several shipmates to survive. The remainder of the crew fled into the caverns and have taken refuge in the ooze
-filled caverns around the ship. Now the illithid waits for new humanoid brains to deliver themselves into its waiting tentacles.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
individual voice. Working together, the brains maintain the monastery’s technical operations. Each brain is also responsible for two of the floating disks that lead out to the treasury (see area M9
their brains in order to return them to a semblance of life. Kwalish promised to research a means of finding new bodies for his fallen companions, but was driven away by the Grand Master before he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
jars, many of which contain brains suspended in colorful liquid. Glassware on one shelf has been knocked over, covering the floor in broken glass. Bimbi the flumph (area 17) accidentally spilled many of
the jars here; the resulting alchemical stew mutated three of the brains in this room. The now-floating brains (use the grell stat block) attack any creatures that enter the area. Two helmet-like
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mind Flayers Mind flayers, also known as illithids, feast on the brains of Humanoids across the multiverse. They are distinguished by their purple-toned skin and octopus-like heads, from which extend writhing tentacles.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
tentacles. Upon seeing the characters, Bimbi sighs with relief and explains it’s searching for fresh brains to feed its friend, a mind flayer imprisoned in an isolation chamber (area 20b). “I used to find
brains in the brain room,” Bimbi burbles. “But I knocked over some jars there, and the brains came to life!” If the characters agree to clear the “brain monsters” out of area 21, the flumph gives them its key card.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
dominate other creatures. The fortunate among their victims are slain, their brains devoured. The unlucky ones have their psyches warped, leaving them as mindless slaves with little hope of being rescued.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
The God-Brain The scope of what mind flayers call history exists on a cosmic scale. Through ages of empire and conflict, the illithid elder brains indulged experiments without comparison or reference
, giving rise to an alien disease that began devouring its fleshy form. Horrified by an affliction that infected only them, the other elder brains united and psionically expelled the diseased brain from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Kwalish’s Plans Kwalish has long yearned to help the members of his former expedition trapped as brains in jars in the Monastery of the Distressed Body. Knowing that they still survive, he might
provide instructions and materials for the characters to return to the monastery and provide the brains with new bodies. And in Daoine Gloine, the characters might entreat the inventor to discover a way
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
underground, and within easy reach of humanoids and their succulent brains. No two lairs are the same, as the resident elder brain drives the form and function of each one. The lair shown in the
difficult as possible for ordinary two-legged creatures. In such locations, thralls must climb or use ropes to move from place to place. Brain Chamber Mind flayers sometimes preserve extracted brains in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Whispers, which is located deep inside the floating city. She sits on her Throne of Bones, a mighty artifact fueled by the intellects of mind flayers and elder brains that were defeated by her minions