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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
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
with the implantation of an illithid tadpole in the brain of a Humanoid host. Mind flayers have subjected giants to this process in an effort to create larger, stronger mind flayers, but those
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, or unconscious condition on itself. While one of the psurlon’s heads is asleep, its other head is awake.Multiattack. The psurlon makes two Bite attacks and two Claw attacks. It can also use
ago. They now live on the Astral Plane. They have legs that end in hooves and arms that end in hands with three long fingers. A psurlon’s eyeless head resembles that of an earthworm, capped by a
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
hooves and arms that end in hands with three long fingers. A psurlon’s eyeless head resembles that of an earthworm, capped by a maw ringed with teeth. Psurlons adorn themselves in richly colored
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
legs that end in hooves and arms that end in hands with three long fingers. A psurlon’s eyeless head resembles that of an earthworm, capped by a maw ringed with teeth. Psurlons adorn themselves in
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
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, 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
staff; when the ulitharid is ready to give up its life, it attaches the staff to the back of its head, and the staff cracks open its skull, enabling its brain to be extracted. The brain and the staff
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mind Flayer Fanatics The three most ruthless, domineering, and cunning mind flayers in Illithinoch spent their early lives scheming against one another. A few decades ago, they each realized the
potential in working together and swiftly dominated Illithinoch’s other mind flayers. Once they became masters of the stronghold, these three mind flayers engaged in increasingly bizarre and esoteric
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
3. Talking Heads This 10-foot-high room has wooden shelves covering the walls from floor to ceiling. Hundreds of wide-mouthed jars line the shelves, each containing a severed head floating in brine
. The heads in the jars are specimens that Halaster has collected throughout Undermountain: goblins, drow, kuo-toa, duergar, troglodytes, githyanki, mind flayers, and other creatures. Although detached
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
hold stone dishes and tankards. Some of the dishware contains globs of edible gray slime. (The mind flayers use these dishes to bring food to prisoners in area 10.)
Wall of Force. The rubble-strewn
passage to area 8a is blocked by an invisible wall of force that is generated from area 16c.
The mind flayers gained control of two scaladar (see appendix A) and implanted duergar brains in them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
hunting party brought together for the explicit purpose of hunting mind flayers. A group of mind flayers have created a weapon of immense power called the Gith Capacitor. They intend to use this artifact
to wipe psionics from the collective minds of the gith peoples and enslave them once more. To activate the Gith Capacitor, the mind flayers must expose it to the unfathomable energies of the Far Realm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
held high above its head to support the ceiling, forty feet above. A pair of fist-sized black crystals is fitted to the statue’s eyes. The perimeter statues, six in all, appear to resemble naked humans
statue depicts some forgotten god dedicated to chaos and entropy, and as described below, holds up the ceiling overhead. Objectives/Goals Aware of the creature’s existence, the mind flayers were able
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Two life-size iron statues of mind flayers sit in opposite corners of the central chamber, facing one another with their tentacles outstretched.
Halaster placed the mind flayer statues here and
trapped them. A detect magic spell reveals auras of abjuration and evocation magic around each one. It doesn’t require an ability check to realize that a humanoid head would fit nicely inside each mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Githyanki After tracking the splinter colony of mind flayers to Undermountain, githyanki forces from level 16 have begun their systematic eradication of the illithid presence. The githyanki forces on
this level await reinforcements from level 16. Yaveklar, the knight in command, intends to personally cut off the ulitharid’s head and present it to her superiors. Her second in command, Lashiir
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
-and-gray hide is smooth like a salamander’s, and their eyes are pale. As they age, their spore breath causes fungi to bloom across their skin, especially around the head and neck. Their wings are
them from mind flayer;mind flayers, but the dragon is uninterested in meeting with them despite their repeated petitions.
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A nest of vampire;vampires has developed a taste for deep dragon blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
was that of a human instead of a mind flayer. Ablinash had facial tentacles like other mind flayers, allowing it to extract brains, but it could consume brains only by messily chewing them. It loved
. Doing so caused the matching grin on the base to open. Many years ago, the heavy statue toppled. One foot remained affixed to the base, distorting the metal when the statue fell. The top of the head
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Ettin Ceremorph Mind flayers, which are described in the Monster Manual, are created through ceremorphosis, a process that begins with the implantation of an illithid tadpole in the brain of a
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
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
originated, with the intention to destroy it. When planted in this way, creatures summoned are not friendly to you and do not vanish. Some of the creatures summoned merely head off in search of home
dawn. You gain the following flaw: “When I see wickedness in action, I must oppose it.”
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Beyond the Rock of Bral (silver mind flayer tooth)
2 mind flayer;mind flayers
You gain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
with three long fingers. A psurlon’s eyeless head resembles that of an earthworm, capped by a maw ringed with teeth. Psurlons adorn themselves in richly colored robes and rarely wear armor or carry
work with mind flayers. Together, they collect victims to feed on; the illithids devour the victims’ brains while the psurlons consume the rest of the prey. Githyanki despise psurlons because of this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Flowing designs decorate the walls. Lounging against the south wall are two mind flayers, their face tentacles periodically gesticulating.
Two mind flayers named Shalghast and Ulthundul guard this room
while engaging in telepathic conversation, but they aren’t expecting an attack. The fanatics have told the mind flayers to expect surface cultists, such as the aberrant zealots who reside elsewhere in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
night. Kuo-toa can no longer abide daylight. Tormented and Abandoned. At the height of the illithid empire, the mind flayers captured kuo-toa by the thousands and forced them into bondage. The kuo-toa
were unable to endure the oppressive mental force the illithids unleashed against them. By the time the mind flayers abandoned them, the prolonged psychic subjugation endured by the kuo-toa had
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Ulitharid Very rarely, an illithid tadpole transforms an individual into an ulitharid rather than an ordinary mind flayer. Ulitharids are larger than mind flayers and have six tentacles instead of
elder brain to be insufferable, it breaks off from the colony, taking a group of mind flayers with it, and forms a new colony. After the death of the ulitharid’s body, mind flayers place its brain in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
a derelict,” she says, pointing out its stripped weaponry and broken hull. “If there were mind flayers aboard, they would’ve attacked us by now. Looks like somebody’s already picked it over. Still
sense the presence of telepathic activity on nearby vessels and making the flumph a sort of early warning system in advance of encounters with mind flayers and their ilk. The nautiloid makes Flapjack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
mind flayers acquired only four or five obelisk fragments, Chishinix sulks here, feeding treats to her severed head. She recognizes the characters’ arrival as a problem and tries to delay them with
: Chishinix is always accompanied by a severed head, which has the statistics of an encephalon gemmule (see appendix A) with a speed of 10 feet. The head lacks the Encephalon Progeny ability. Hashutu has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
glass lanterns with continual flame spells cast on them.
Wounded Githyanki. Four githyanki warriors are recovering from wounds inflicted on them by the mind flayers’ thralls. Each has 30 hit points
head hanging from her belt.
The older githyanki knight, Yaveklar, commands the githyanki forces on this level. Though she is eager to slay the ulitharid and wipe out the mind flayer colony, Yaveklar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
in an unnaturally calm, sing-song voice. At first, he attempts to be cordial to the characters. Unaware that his “mighty gods” are actually mind flayers, Ruxithid explains that he is a divine
Ruxithid’s eyes roll back into his head as he speaks: a telling sign that the goblin is having a second conversation within his mind, and that the words he speaks aren’t entirely his own. Ruxithid the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
are of duergar make. A character proficient in History also realizes the duergar clan that once used these marks is long gone, overwhelmed by mind flayers many generations ago. G3: Cage Workshop Stamps
diabolists bound a chain devil to this room long ago. She dimly remembers her name is Vakketar. When the mind flayers routed the duergar, they blasted Vakketar’s mind and left her for dead. The chain devil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, a githyanki knight with 140 hit points, stands at a 5-foot-diameter round table in the center of the room, poring over reports written in Gith that document recent clashes with the mind flayers on
-like maw of the stuffed mind flayer head closest to the chest. A successful DC 25 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools picks the lock, and a successful DC 30 Strength (Athletics) check forces the chest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
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
no eternal communion with an elder brain is possible. The road to lichdom offers a way to escape the permanency of death, but that path is long and solitary. Alhoons are mind flayers that use a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Necrotic energy has built up within the corpse to dangerous levels. A successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check reveals that the corpse’s limbs aren’t as withered as its head and torso. A character who
creature it sees other than mind flayers, and it fights to the death. To mind flayers, Golcuus is obsequious and begs to be restored to its former state. Treasure. Some of Golcuus’s art and tools remain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
ashenwights. Characters who investigate the corpses determine the duergar died from weapon wounds a few months ago. They all have postmortem head wounds; the encephalon cluster that lairs in area B12
is frozen in a scream.
As soon as any creature disturbs or steps close to the corpses, a flaming skull erupts from each corpse head. The five flameskulls pursue foes who flee and fight until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
flayers gather around an enormous brain resting in a pool. The brain is dead. You can hear the illithids’ incomprehensible thoughts as they mourn its passing. One word echoes louder than the others
it at the dead elder brain. The elder brain begins to pulsate, and you see intermittent flashes of purple light under its rotting flesh. The mind flayers are aghast as the elder brain speaks to them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
in the direction of the mind flayers in the theater (area S35), he thanks them, and the githyanki head that way. If the characters provide proof of the illithids’ destruction, the githyanki sigh in
burst, and the giant immediately melts into a 15-foot-square puddle of radiation. S33c: North Cargo Hold. A githyanki knight and five githyanki warriors search this cargo hold for mind flayers. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
they would fall apart with a touch.
Each sarcophagus holds a dwarf crypt guardian whose spirit was corrupted by the mind flayers’ magic. When a sarcophagus is disturbed or a living creature attempts
of sacred gemstones, but the mind flayers took the gems when they vanquished this place’s defenders. The basin is now empty. West Room. Attendants here dressed and armored the prepared corpses. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, allowing his true believers of the Sea Mother to cut off the head of the cult. The archpriest promises that the characters will be “well rewarded” for their aid. If the characters refuse, Ploopploopeen
ply the Darklake, even as boating remains a significant part of their culture.
It might well be that the kuo-toa’s former masters — the mind flayers — used them as ferry pilots and navigators in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Daelkyr The daelkyr are the lords of madness and the emissaries of Xoriat, who invaded Eberron with a host of mind flayers, beholders, and other foul aberrations. Wherever they walked, the daelkyr
are all but forgotten. Mind flayers scheme in the sewers of Sharn, and cultists beseech beholder priests for the blessings of Belashyrra, the Lord of Eyes. And in the shadows of Khyber, the daelkyr are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
flayer fanatics traded some of their most degenerate mind flayers to Naruv in exchange for a well-guarded place to scribe their bolstering rune. The characters can access the Feeder Trenches from area X4
head is lifted from the pool or if the creature is rolled over. Bashudu can explain how the three mind flayer fanatics who took over the stronghold traded it and the other nothics to Naruv to scribe






