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concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the duergar wears or carries is invisible with it.Stone guards are elite troops deployed in small numbers to bolster war bands of
been deeply impacted by their ancestors’ captivity and torment by mind flayers; they were infused with powerful psionic abilities but also a profound gloom. In some, this strain of sorrow
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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
away when a colony manages to capture a dragon. Teams of mind flayers bind the dragon, which is subject to a gruesome transformation as the elder brain latches onto the dragon’s back and digs its
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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
magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation ends if the dragon is reduced to 0 hit points or uses a bonus
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seeks adventurers to lead into battle against the mind flayer;mind flayers that usurped the dragon’s lair.
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Powerful infernal creatures have opened a portal in the middle of a city square
magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation ends if the dragon is reduced to 0 hit points or uses a
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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
existing abundance of amethysts remains, but new crystals and geodes form at a normal rate.Force, PsychicChange Shape. The dragon magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while
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attack.
Psionics (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon uses Psychic Step or Spellcasting.
Telekinetic Fling (Costs 3 Actions). The dragon chooses one Small or smaller object that isn’t being worn or
flayer;mind flayers that usurped the dragon’s lair.
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Powerful infernal creatures have opened a portal in the middle of a city square. The key to closing the portal is a mythical holy
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. The dragon magically transforms into any creature that is Medium or Small, while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation ends if the dragon is reduced to 0 hit points
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->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Small humanoids are only rarely transformed into thralls or otherwise kept under firm control. Almost any humanoid creature can end up as a thrall, and mind flayers sometimes work with whatever
Mind Flayer Thralls Mind flayers never truly ally with any creatures. They either attempt to seize control of a population by subverting its leaders, or they use psionics to dominate a humanoid and
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->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
mold growing here is edible and nutritious, but not tasty. The mind flayers feed it to their prisoners. A small cup of the mold is nutritionally equivalent to a day’s worth of rations.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Running This Chapter The characters start this chapter knowing that a trio of mind flayers are preparing a ritual to transform surface-dwelling Humanoids into mind flayers. The ritual will certainly
affect Phandalin, and it might wash over other small population pockets in the region. The exact parameters of the ritual are up to you. If you decide that the characters are too easily vanquishing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
knight in area 15b investigates. This cavern has the following features: Straw Dummies. Straw dummies crafted to resemble mind flayers stand near the center of the chamber.
Apparatus. A large
climbing apparatus made of black steel is mounted to one wall.
Inscriptions. Gith inscriptions cover the remaining walls. (They recount crimes perpetrated by the githzerai and the mind flayers against the
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
tongue-lever in the statue. The metal is twisted near the statue’s foot, creating an inch-wide tear several feet deep. This space ensures the interior of the cube gets air but is much too small to pass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
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
magical liquid. Still fully alive, they are kept in the brain chamber. The mind flayers use these brains to advance the study of how psionics affects their enemies. They also enjoy the babble of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
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. Gnome Squidling
Small aberration
Mind Flayers 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
flayers. These remnants were so distorted by the mind flayers’ psionic power that the dwarves became Aberrations. Derro tell their own stories of flight and survival in the Underdark, in which mind
flayers aren’t always the enemy. They tell of two brothers, the gods Diirinka and Diinkarazan, and of how Diirinka cleverly betrayed his sibling so that he could steal magical power from the evil they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
intelligent humanoids to nourish themselves and allow for slow but steady growth. Once a colony is secure, it focuses on the Grand Design — the mind flayers’ plan to rebuild their lost empire. The illithids
end, each colony conducts research into the nature of the world and the creatures that inhabit it. The mind flayers examine all facets of reality, seeking any knowledge that could give them the edge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
potency after 1 hour. X3: Hashutu’s Room The door to this room bears a series of small, raised dots. This is a message in Qualith, the mind flayers’ tactile language that most creatures must resort to
. 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
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
movement on its turn to move toward the nearest statue and stick its head between the tentacles. (A Small humanoid must climb the front of the statue to do so.) Only one creature at a time can place its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
them. Survival for a solitary drow underground is nearly impossible. The main routes through the Underdark are dotted with drow guard posts, and the back ways are prowled by ropers, mind flayers
, duergar, and other killers. To make matters worse, the renegade’s former house offers a bounty that entices drow assassins to take up the chase. Of those who run, only a small fraction get to the surface
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Derro The derro are degenerate Underdark humanoids that resemble small dwarves. Cruel and insane, they take delight in tormenting others — even their own kind. Derro have blue-gray skin and straight
result of cruel experiments on dwarves by mind flayers. Like duergar, the derro were a slave race to the mind flayers, but eventually freed themselves. Born to Madness. The process of their creation
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
small, shiny, black metal chest next to it (see “Treasure” below). Mounted on other walls are thirteen stuffed mind flayer heads.
Secret Trapdoor. A secret trapdoor in the floor under the table opens
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
brings them into conflict with beholders, drow, kuo-toa, duergar, and mind flayers. Of all their natural enemies, deep gnomes fear and despise the murderous, demon-worshiping drow the most. Earth Friends
xorn enticed to service with the promise of gems to feed on. Deep Gnome (Svirfneblin)
Small humanoid (gnome), neutral good
Armor Class 15 (chain shirt)
Hit Points 16 (3d6 + 6)
Speed 20 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
behind when the others escaped the mind flayers’ rule. They eventually also got away, but not before becoming demented and contorted. The derro tell their own story of flight and survival in the
Underdark, and the mind flayers aren’t always the enemy. Laduguer and Deep Duerra don’t feature in their mythic history. Instead they tell of two brothers, Diirinka and Diinkarazan, and of how Diirinka
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
the Eastern Reach
During the great war between the mind flayers and the gith, one of the githyanki’s greatest achievements was their discovery of the magic that mind flayers used to produce and
astral skiff is operated by a crew of three and carries up to a dozen passengers. The githyanki employ this small vessel, 30 feet long and 10 feet wide, for patrols in the Astral Plane and for quick raids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
elder brain. But this small solace withers away when a colony manages to capture a dragon. Teams of mind flayers bind the dragon, which is subject to a gruesome transformation as the elder brain latches
victims and transform them into mind flayers, allowing the elder brain dragon to grow its own roving colony. Elder Brain Dragon
Gargantuan Aberration, Typically Lawful Evil
Armor Class 17 (natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
grells in area J3.) The monsters grabbed the goblin corpses as well as Oskar, Cathlette, and Aida, whisking them into this small cave complex. The monsters ate the goblins and deposited the three
use this passage to come and go without disturbing the behir in area J6; the passage is too small for the behir to navigate. If the characters are particularly noisy, the behir slithers from area J6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
from psionic creatures, and they can be found lurking near communities of mind flayers, aboleths, githyanki, and githzerai. As passive parasites, they take only the mental energy they need, and most
of dungeon survival
Flumph
Small aberration, lawful good
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 7 (2d6)
Speed 5 ft., fly 30 ft.
STR
6 (−2)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
10 (+0)
INT
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
ball of toxic fog. If there’s anything at its hidden center, it must be very small and thus of no consequence. Toppled Statue. One of the floating islands is a toppled statue that depicts a mind flayer
detection and location is still on his headless corpse. (The amulet doesn’t block the psychic abilities of Ilvaash and the mind flayers, such as Creature Sense and detect thoughts.) Eclectic souvenirs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
.
Meenlock
Small fey
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 31 (7d6 + 7)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
6 (−2)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
11 (+0)
WIS
10 (+0
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->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
(Stealth) checks to hide, as they continually emit jarring music. B7: Githyanki Camp Three bedrolls around a small chest are tucked inside this alcove. Two metal rods, each about two feet long
and Deep Speech in addition to Gith. All three githyanki are on an extended expedition to hunt mind flayers. A tenuous trail of clues brought them to the Briny Maze, and they charged into the maze
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
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
and introduces himself as Wreth. He explains the githyanki are hunting mind flayers and asks the characters if they’ve seen any aboard the ship. If the characters refrain from combat and point Wreth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
monsters such as aboleths and mind flayers or forces such as Cthulhu, Hadar, Ityak-Ortheel the Elf Eater, Nyarlathotep, malicious solar bodies, or entities from the Far Realm. Aberrant Cultist Medium
or Small Humanoid, Neutral Evil
AC 14 Initiative +7 (17)
HP 137 (25d8 + 25)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 10 +0 +0
Dex 19 +4 +4
Con 12 +1 +1
Ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
outpost. The entrance was sealed away by the mind flayers (who despised the hot spring), but the goblins have since unearthed it, though the entrance is still hidden in area Z5. The hot spring is 15
in the mind flayers’ takeover. The ashenwights are hostile and attack immediately. Floor-to-ceiling glass windows overlook a churning lava sea. Three large, blackened anvils stand in a row, and
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