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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
conquered by mind flayers, and the goblins there were exposed to the illithids’ strange powers, leading a subset of the goblins to develop unusual psionic powers. The mind flayers eventually left
themselves the Sawplees: a simplification of the word for “goblin” in the illithids’ dialect of Deep Speech.
In recent weeks, the Sawplee goblins’ leader found a mysterious
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
early on the mount immediately after it attacks.Kavalrachni are duergar cavalry trained to fight while riding female steeder;female steeders or other Underdark creatures as mounts.
Duergar
Duergar
are dwarves of the deep reaches of the Underdark and other sunless realms. Their personalities and abilities have been deeply impacted by their ancestors’ captivity and torment by mind flayers
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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
neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, inspiring, and merciless in equal parts. A skilled leader in battle, the warlord can use spikes of psionic energy to compel the warriors they command to fight harder.
Duergar
Duergar are dwarves of
the deep reaches of the Underdark and other sunless realms. Their personalities and abilities have been deeply impacted by their ancestors’ captivity and torment by mind flayers; they were
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
dwarves of the deep reaches of the Underdark and other sunless realms. Their personalities and abilities have been deeply impacted by their ancestors’ captivity and torment by mind flayers; they
fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
reaches of the Underdark and other sunless realms. Their personalities and abilities have been deeply impacted by their ancestors’ captivity and torment by mind flayers; they were infused with
their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if that passion rarely
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
realms. Their personalities and abilities have been deeply impacted by their ancestors’ captivity and torment by mind flayers; they were infused with powerful psionic abilities but also a
dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if that passion rarely manifests as mirth. They bring an
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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 inspires
this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
1/day each: fly, mislead, sendingAn astral elf aristocrat is a brilliant, highborn leader gifted with magical abilities, including the power to channel sunlight and
eons, astral elves have clashed with numerous invaders, including psurlons, mind flayers, and githyanki. When dealing with others, astral elves customarily cover their faces with ornate visors, becoming
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
defense—until someone bests the dragon’s security measures.
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A sapphire dragon seeks adventurers to lead into battle against the mind flayer;mind flayers that usurped the dragon
.
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A sapphire dragon invites warriors to vie for the honor of studying military tactics under the dragon. The front-runner is an infamous bandit leader who will undoubtedly terrorize the area if
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
measures.
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A sapphire dragon 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
of studying military tactics under the dragon. The front-runner is an infamous bandit leader who will undoubtedly terrorize the area if they win.
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A sapphire dragon’s lair is so well
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
seeks adventurers to lead into battle against the mind flayer;mind flayers that usurped the dragon’s lair.
4
Powerful infernal creatures have opened a portal in the middle of a city square
dragon. The front-runner is an infamous bandit leader who will undoubtedly terrorize the area if they win.
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A sapphire dragon’s lair is so well protected that its inner defenses have
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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
tampering with the dragon’s food supply.
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A sapphire dragon invites warriors to vie for the honor of studying military tactics under the dragon. The front-runner is an infamous bandit leader
Gith
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
The story of the gith is rooted in a cruel twist of cosmic fate. Inspired by the great leader for whom the race is named, the gith rose up to overthrow the mind flayers that held them in
to plunder the Material Plane and other worlds, bringing treasures and slaves back to their ageless realm. At the same time, they hunt down and kill mind flayers whenever possible, as recompense for
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
purely natural animals; the mark allows its bearer to guide a hippogriff as easily as a horse.
House Vadalis
Leader: Dalin d’Vadalis
Headquarters: Foalswood (near Varna, Eldeen Reaches
)
Represented by the hippogriff, House Vadalis plays an important role in daily life, offering meat, mounts, and more. Vadalis isn’t one of the most powerful houses, but its barons are generally
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
. The eldest acts as leader with the support of a shaman.
AARAKOCRA IN THE FORGOTTEN REALMS
Never well established in Faerûn, aarakocra have only four major colonies: in the Star Mounts
within the High Forest, in the Storm Horns in Cormyr, in the Cloven Mountains on the Vilhon Reach, and in the Mistcliffs in Chult.
Those colonies established in the Star Mounts, closest to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
single race enslaved by the mind flayers. Although they attempted to overthrow their masters many times, their rebellions were repeatedly crushed until a great leader named Gith arose. After much
bloodshed, Gith and her followers threw off the yoke of their illithid masters, but another leader named Zerthimon emerged in the aftermath of battle. Zerthimon challenged Gith’s motives, claiming that her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
elder brain—a massive, brain-like being with incredible psionic powers. Without such a leader, groups of mind flayers fall to self-destructive squabbling. Roll on or choose a result from the Mind
Mind Flayer Colonies Mind flayers work as lone schemers, in mysterious cabals, or as part of worlds-spanning illithid conspiracies. In groups, mind flayers work toward bizarre agendas organized by an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
disease. Recently, Sawplee leader Ruxithid entered this sanctum. When he did, he came to the attention of a group of Far Realm–worshiping mind flayers, who were studying the region in search of a
place of rest, rejuvenation, and safety for duergar and their allies alike. However, when the mind flayers conquered the mining outpost, they perverted the sanctum for their own malevolent designs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
spirits of these tormented mind flayers remain within Mount Grysl, as does the rebellion’s leader: a bloated deviant that calls itself the High Master and seeks to undermine the God-Brain.
Mount Grysl Mount Grysl’s polypous spires once served as a secondary installation of the domain’s resident mind flayers, but the residents rebelled against the God-Brain’s self-serving obsessions. As
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
History of the Gith Ages ago, a humanlike people were conquered by an empire of mind flayers. The illithids manipulated this forgotten people through untold horrors, forced evolution, and psychic
reshaping. Eventually one named Gith rose from among the captives and led a rebellion against their oppressors. Gith’s followers, who became known as the gith, defeated the mind flayers and shattered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
multiverse, and to avoid githyanki and mind flayers. We githzerai crave a challenge, so that when Zerthimon returns, he shall find us ready. Thus we traveled to howling Limbo to make our new home.
—Zaerith Menyar-Ag-Gith, githzerai leader
gaunt, humanlike beings, physically identical to githyanki. They share a history with githyanki as creatures physically and psychically transformed by mind flayers (see the “Githyanki” section). Githzerai
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
mention a powerful duergar leader named Zorzula, who commanded mining operations throughout the Sword Mountains. However, duergar control of the outpost ceased centuries ago when Zorzula’s Rest was
overtaken by mind flayers. After conquering the outpost, the illithids reigned over the area for decades, even at one point housing an elder brain within the outpost’s underground sanctum. Eventually, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
. Centuries ago, the outpost was conquered by mind flayers, and the goblins there were exposed to the illithids’ strange powers, leading a subset of the goblins to develop unusual psionic powers. The
mind flayers eventually left, but the goblins remained, sequestered from the rest of the world until recently when the mind flayer fanatics called on them. Some of these goblins’ descendants possess
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Chapter 4: Gith and Their Endless War The story of the gith is rooted in a cruel twist of cosmic fate. Inspired by the great leader for whom the race is named, the gith rose up to overthrow the mind
flayers that held them in servitude. But after they won their freedom, two factions among the gith disagreed on what kind of civilization they would forge. That disagreement quickly flared into open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
). Each considers themself the group’s leader and Ilvaash’s secret favorite. Although most mind flayers reject the notion of having individual personalities, the fanatics have embraced their own unique
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
knights 1d4 Young red dragons Roll a d6. On a result of 6, the group includes 1d3 dragons. Raiding Party Leader d6 Leader 1 Githyanki supreme commander 2–3 Githyanki knight 4–5 Githyanki kith’rak 6
githyanki want to fight and loot to relieve their boredom 3 Revenge; the githyanki seek a stolen silver sword 4–5 Mind flayer hunt; the githyanki are seeking mind flayers and their thralls 6 Vlaakith’s orders; the githyanki have been dispatched to seize a specific item or person
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
on the Sword Coast. Brought together as a rrakkma by Belthomias, lieutenant to Zetch’r’r, leader of the Sha’sal Khou, the characters know the following. Among the Sha’sal Khou a rrakkma is a gith
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
dwell underground. Beneath the alien surface, the mind flayers of Bluetspur drift through the howling darkness of their ancient metropolis-laboratory. Within this sprawling installation, the illithids
’ numbers are few and their tentacles twitch with undisguised urgency. They toil to prevent the unthinkable: their primordial leader, the God-Brain of Bluetspur, is dying. Through these end times, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
House Vadalis Leader: Dalin d’Vadalis Headquarters: Foalswood (near Varna, Eldeen Reaches) Represented by the hippogriff, House Vadalis plays an important role in daily life, offering meat, mounts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
The characters might use their mounts to fight foes in the air, using the mounted combat rules in the Player’s Handbook. As intelligent creatures, the characters’ mounts can act independently, but they
loyal to Afsoun and are unlikely to be talked out of abandoning their leader—particularly after enacting a plan to liberate her.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The Obelisk If your players wish to continue the story past chapter 4, they’ll find a tale of ancient magic, a malevolent godlet, and fanatics obsessed with transforming innocents into mind flayers
the goblins are searching for pieces of the titular shattered obelisk. Chasing down the goblins reveals their connection to a sobering plot against Phandalin. The characters learn that mind flayers who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
disinclination toward travel, the githzerai send groups away from Limbo on a regular basis to keep from giving ground in their battles against the githyanki and the mind flayers. Adamantine Citadels When
teleports away, the citadel vanishes, leaving only a scarred landscape to indicate where it once stood. I couldn’t discern if the githzerai leader was alive, dead, or undead. But the psychic stress in his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
ancient, having fought alongside a leader named Gith to win her people’s freedom from the mind flayers that enslaved them. Githyanki of Tu’narath swear unquestioning obedience to the lich-queen, and she
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
allow it, Marquox follows them to Stardock, fighting alongside them until it reunites with its kin. At that point, the mind flayers either turn against the party (if the characters appear weak) or lure
the characters to the mind flayer colony on level 17, where Extremiton (the colony’s ulitharid leader) can decide what to do with them.