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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, the result is a gnome squidling—a deformed mind flayer with weak, spindly limbs and oversized tentacles. It relies on levitation to keep its body aloft and uses its tentacles like legs, to
, the tadpole transforms its host into a mind flayer. The new creation typically retains no memory of its previous existence.
When the process of turning a gnome into a mind flayer goes horribly awry
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
heads sinks into the body, with that brain focused on controlling the body. The other head focuses on cogitation and psionic power, though its power is not as great as a mind flayer’s.
Ettin
saving throw or have the stunned condition until the end of its next turn.Mind flayer;Mind flayers, which are described in the Monster Manual, are created through ceremorphosis, a process that begins
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
are so-called among non-illithids because they act as the central communication hub for an entire mind flayer colony, just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts
, attack rolls, and saving throws until the end of the creature’s next turn.
Tentacle (Costs 2 Actions). The elder brain makes one Tentacle attack.The ultimate expression of mind flayer domination
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
oblexes hunt targets more likely to be intelligent, such as wizards and other spellcasters. When suitable fare comes within reach, an oblex draws its body up to engulf its victim. As it withdraws, it
plunders the creature’s mind, leaving its prey befuddled and confused—or dead.
When oblexes feed on thoughts, they can form weird copies of their prey to use as lures, which helps them harvest even more victims for their mind flayer masters.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
;{"diceNotation":"6d12","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Tadpole Brine Breath"} hours. When the period of unconsciousness ends, the creature transforms into a mind flayer (see the Monster Manual) with all
available to those who must contend with a mind flayer colony is the limit of its reach, which spreads only as far as the influence of the colony’s elder brain. But this small solace withers
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
influence of the Far Realm affects Humanoids, the resulting creature might be a thing of nightmares. Multitudinous webbed wings sprout haphazardly along this mutate’s body. Its skin becomes clammy and
.
Forcing a transformation on creatures inexplicably fails, though evil forces—such as the mind flayer empire of old—have conducted much research on the topic. For centuries, mind flayers
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
end of its body, and a superior intellect. Other psurlons look to the two-headed ones for leadership.
Psurlons
Psurlons are malevolent, wormlike creatures that were ejected from the Far Realm long
abilities to infiltrate the settlements of their 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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
sharper the mind, the better the meal, so oblexes hunt targets more likely to be intelligent, such as wizards and other spellcasters. When suitable fare comes within reach, an oblex draws its body up to
prey to use as lures, which helps them harvest even more victims for their mind flayer masters.Sulfurous Impersonation. The oblex extrudes a piece of itself that assumes the appearance of one Medium or
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
suitable fare comes within reach, an oblex draws its body up to engulf its victim. As it withdraws, it plunders the creature’s mind, leaving its prey befuddled and confused—or dead.
When
oblexes feed on thoughts, they can form weird copies of their prey to use as lures, which helps them harvest even more victims for their mind flayer masters.Sulfurous Impersonation. The oblex
Young Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
skin, especially around the head and neck. Their wings are attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels
things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or aboleth flesh.
6
I might be willing to exert myself to take out a mind flayer. Those disgusting creatures must be stopped.
7
I dream of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
: a larger and more potent mind flayer with six tentacles. Illithids innately recognize that an ulitharid’s survival is more important than their own. An elder brain’s reaction to the rise
, taking a group of mind flayers with it, and moves to another location to form a new colony. After the death of the ulitharid’s body, a special process transforms its brain into a new elder brain for
Deep Dragon Wyrmling
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wings are attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in
aboleth flesh.
6
I might be willing to exert myself to take out a mind flayer. Those disgusting creatures must be stopped.
7
I dream of seeing the deepest places in the ocean.
8
I find
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, or you throw it into an unoccupied space within 10 feet of you in a body of water that is at least 50 feet wide and 50 feet long. Upon doing so, the tooth burrows into the ground and vanishes, leaving
dawn. You gain the following flaw: “When I see wickedness in action, I must oppose it.”
8
Beyond the Rock of Bral (silver mind flayer tooth)
2 mind flayer;mind flayers
You gain
Adult Deep Dragon
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attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge
flesh.
6
I might be willing to exert myself to take out a mind flayer. Those disgusting creatures must be stopped.
7
I dream of seeing the deepest places in the ocean.
8
I find I
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
mind flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight
monastery of githzerai warrior-monks, an adult amethyst dragon sends them aid against a mind flayer colony.
7
An apostate community of githyanki follows the tutelage of an adult amethyst dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, taking over a victim’s body on behalf of its mind flayer masters. Illithid Creations. Mind flayers breed intellect devourers to serve as roaming hunters of the Underdark, creating an intellect
intellect devourer consumes a creature’s mind and memories, then turns the host body into a puppet under its control. An intellect devourer typically uses its puppet host to lure others into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
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
primarily on the psionic energy that they extract from it in its final moments of activity. Through some quirk of the illithids’ parasitic nature, the cultural sophistication of a mind flayer depends upon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Intellect Devourer Brain-Eating Body Thief Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: None Intellect devourers serve their mind flayer creators by consuming other creatures’ brains and puppetizing the mindless
the victims’ knowledge and control of their bodies, intellect devourers use their perfect disguises to pass as the people they’ve replaced and further mind flayer plots. Intellect Devourer Tiny
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
E6: Passenger Car A mind flayer in a beige coat kneels beside a body in the aisle of this passenger car. Three curious onlookers—a cambion, a drow, and bronze dwarf with flames for hair—poke their
heads out of nearby cabins. “No one move a muscle!” warns the mind flayer. “This whole car just became a crime scene.”
This car contains three cozy passenger cabins and two privies (one at each end of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
harm. The townspeople promise to keep the infected villagers safe until some cure can be found. (They don’t know that the only cure is defeating the mind flayer fanatics.) Once the chaos from the
elongated. In the dim light, it’s easy to mistake them for a mind flayer. Wheel-of-Fortune is suffering no other effects. They are here in the dark because any light brighter than candlelight causes them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
taken over by an intellect devourer.
6 An inventor requests the characters’ insight into a pill-sized device she extracted from her own body. As the characters examine it, the device projects a map
into their minds and emits a telepathic call for help. The map leads to a mind flayer who wants to put the God-Brain out of its misery.
7 A farmer hires the characters to protect his family
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Realm and any creatures warped by its touch. Strangely, though, they are intrigued by and fond of flumph;flumphs. These Aberrations, which oppose the depredations of mind flayer;mind flayers and
, requiring no spell components and targeting any body of water in that region.
If the dragon dies, the populations of aquatic life near the lair return to normal levels over the course of 1d10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Elder Brain Dragon One of the few consolations available to those who must contend with a mind flayer colony is the limit of its reach, which spreads only as far as the influence of the colony’s
onto the dragon’s back and digs its tentacles into the dragon’s brain. An elder brain dragon is the nightmarish result. Using the mobility of the dragon’s body, the elder brain can now serve as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Humanoid host. Mind flayers have subjected giants to this process in an effort to create larger, stronger mind flayers, but those experiments all ended in failure: a giant’s body is simply too large for a
the ettin’s body, creating an ettin ceremorph. As part of the transformation process, one of the ettin’s heads sinks into the body, with that brain focused on controlling the body. The other head
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in knowledge of
flesh.
6
I might be willing to exert myself to take out a mind flayer. Those disgusting creatures must be stopped.
7
I dream of seeing the deepest places in the ocean.
8
I find I
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
while learning to fight, to survive in the wild, and to fear the gods.
The children that can’t endure the rigors of a life of combat are culled from the main body of the tribe, taken into the
Female Name
Epithet
1
Grutok
Kansif
The Filthy
2
Lortar
Ownka
Skull Cleaver
3
Abzug
Emen
Eye Gouger
4
Shugog
Sutha
Iron Tusk
5
Urzul
Myev
Skin Flayer
6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
for an entire mind flayer colony, just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts like a single organism, acting in concert as if each illithid were the digit of a
Elder Brain The ultimate expression of mind flayer domination, an elder brain sprawls within a vat of viscous brine, cared for by mind flayer minions as it touches the thoughts of creatures near and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
host. After about seven days in its new home, the tadpole transforms its host into a mind flayer. The new creation typically retains no memory of its previous existence. Gnome Ceremorph For reasons
work. When the process is warped only slightly, the mind flayer remains gnome-sized and is called a gnome ceremorph. It retains its knowledge of the Gnomish language while becoming able to speak Deep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
assume that negotiations are automatically successful and only one character needs to offer up a piece of their soul. Kwalish Who? Kwalish is missing, his physical body having been caught up within
— clockwork ants forming signals and signs, messages drawn by mechanical hands, consultation with the trapped mind flayer, and so on. As best he can, Kwalish tries to instruct characters in the methods that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
on a folded gray blanket, and the slimy, decapitated head of a mind flayer whose headless body has bled out on the floor nearby. The corpse is being feasted on by maggots.
Old Trap. The double door
recently, Arcturia had a mind flayer assistant. She tore off its head to study the psychic energy stored in its brain. Next to the head is a long pair of steel tweezers and a ladle. The 1-foot black cube
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
central communication hub for an entire mind flayer colony just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts like a single organism, acting in concert as if each illithid
Flayers Three members of the horrific illithid family appear here, joining the regular mind flayer in the Monster Manual.
Alhoon Mind flayers that pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
force. 3: Spelljamming Helm Lying on the floor of this raised platform is the headless body of a mind flayer. The stench of the rotting corpse is unpleasant, to say the least. The dead mind flayer lies
party’s help. Benoto is a psurlon ringer (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie), a descendant of a group of psurlons that traveled with the Lucent Edict’s original mind flayer crew. The mind flayers were attacked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
their view of inferior races.
Silver Swords. In ancient times, gith knights created special weapons to combat their mind flayer masters. These silver swords channel the force of the wielder’s will
and slays a mind flayer as part of a sacred rite of passage, it is permitted to rejoin its people on the Astral Plane. Githyanki Knight Githyanki Knight
Medium humanoid (gith), lawful evil
Armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
your body and shatter your sanity!” Qunbraxel Medium Aberration (Mind Flayer, Warlock), Lawful Evil
Armor Class 12 (15 with mage armor)
Hit Points 112 (15d8 + 45)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
11 (+0
(Athletics) check to shove the door hard enough to break the bar. Qunbraxel rightly believes a passage to Talhundereth is behind the door, so the mind flayer sent grimlocks to investigate. The door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
long and fifteen feet wide. Crumpled on the floor before an iron door on the far side of the room, the body of a guard lies in a pool of blood. Standing closed between you and the body, six other oval
unintelligible symbols. More notable is that the unfortunate guard’s brain has been removed from his shattered skull. The guard was killed by the mind flayer leading the Six operatives (see “Portal 4” and