D&D Lore - Mind Flayers

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Episode 114! Today we talk about Mind Flayers, or Illithids. Creatures from the cosmos, they had a large empire that fell when their slave race the Gith fought back against their psionic control.
Mind Flayers are a unique alien species to Dungeons & Dragons.
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@gabrielrussell5531 5 жыл бұрын

3:06 They live in the Underdark because if they were caught operating on the surface the Gith would hunt them down. The Githyanki for example are fond of aerial assaults so those wouldn't work in the Underdark.

@aaroncox3153 5 жыл бұрын

Good timing after the Baldur’s Gate trailer dropped. Can’t ever get enough of the illithid.

@t2av159 3 жыл бұрын

I'm doing a walkthrough as one. So fun

@cameronmcewen9666 Жыл бұрын

We should see some illithids in the next D&D movie. Have Edgin Darvis and his team go back to the Underdark.

@giraffedragon6110 5 жыл бұрын

Now I wanna play a Mindflayer wizard. One who devoted itself to the benefit of the colony and left the hive to gather information and food. He finds that wizards are RICH with knowledge and devours them gaining their knowledge and their beliefs to the point he discovered rumors of powerful magic such as “wish” or “true polymorph” capable of bending reality to its whim! This could give the hive an empire yet! But when he returns with the knowledge of arcane magic, he is shunned and is exiled for the knowledge he gained. With his purpose lost, he would take on the collective purpose of all the wizards he ate. Learn. Pursue the boundaries of all reality. And since he has no home to go to, he will inscribe his knowledge for someone to find one day. He would accept a job in return for knowledge of any kind but knowledge of the world or arcane in some kind would interest him most. And he per chance may be swayed if it would be of “great benefit” as he lost his initial purpose he would seek praise.

@draxthemsklonst 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a member of Iolaum's colony.

@ivorymantis1026 2 жыл бұрын

How ya not gonna get killed on sight though?

@Grinnar 5 жыл бұрын

We had some insane illithids in our long term campaign a few weeks ago. Scared one of our player characters.

@HighlanderFrag4Life 5 жыл бұрын

All aboard the tentacle train!

@Mooney_the_Filthy_Casual 5 жыл бұрын

Do the Mere of Dead Men!

@misomiso8228 5 жыл бұрын

Yeay Mindflayers! Something that's missed in current editions is the whole 'they're refugees from the future thing'. I think it's in the book 'Lords of Madness'. It's awesome, they're going to have a huge empire but it's going to be totally destoryed, so they escaped into the past. Crazy!

@misterjoshua5720 5 жыл бұрын

I think it was in an old 2e book that mentioned the problem with mind flayers mages is they can exert a power that the Elder Brain can't control. This is no blinksy, and not to mention that Illithids mage won't be getting access to new spells unless it barters with or fights other mages, both of which could lead to the colony being exposed.

@XX-sp3tt 5 жыл бұрын

6:54 I read this is because the Elder Brain can't make use of arcane or divine spell casting after that mind flayer's brain has been added to its collection. All mind flayers dream of becoming one with the Elder brain believing they will live forever as part of it... except really their consciousness and personality is snuffed out by the Elder Brain...not that any Elder Brain is about reveal this little secret.

@RPGmodsFan 5 жыл бұрын

Cool ! :-) Good prep for the upcoming BG3 game. :-)

@V4PoRiZeR20 2 жыл бұрын

these little lore videos are really good for newbs like me get a lot of basic understanding from these videos keep on keeping on man!

@harehnkaundun1406 4 жыл бұрын

Since I am obsessed with mind flayers, I thought I'd add on some stuff that you didn't mention (in this video) that I liked about them. Pets- Ooblex(and black ooze) are thought to be either a mind flayer creation or an intervention of Juiblex Flumphs live on their residual psionic energy and live on the outskirts of a colony Brain golems are animated pieces of brain from the elder brain usually there for a short amount of time. Ceremorphosis with a roper to create a urophion Slaves - grimlocks- twisted humans over generations Kuo toa - crazy Fish people that ran away from servitude and from their imagination can now create pseudo gods. There is a small adventure about a rogue mind flayer controlling a small group of those Derro- Duergars who were unable to run away Thralls -over a course of some intensive days with the help of the entire colony, the mind of humanoid is change to accept them as new masters They modify their slaves to give them natural armor and claws Tools: Psionic stones that cause certain emotions A piece of the elder brain for communication and reference Shield that they can see through from a distance and even use their mind blast A special whip that helps them with psionic attacks A special suit to keep their skin moist in arid places (A lot is from lords of madness and the forgotten realms wiki)

@db7610 5 жыл бұрын

"Only a powerful mind or godly strength can open this door"

@arbiterskiss6692 3 жыл бұрын

Or the Knock spell. That works more than often than I expect.

@zmishiymishi5349 8 ай бұрын

Iv been doodling illithid hybrides since 3e. This beholder one seems like a good basis for house holder of AJ, thanks Jorphdan!

@darthludicrous99 4 жыл бұрын

After watching multiple videos about dwarves I learnt one important lesson. If your a dwarf don’t dig too deep.

@Fallenmonkd20 5 жыл бұрын

Ik one theory I've heard before is Gith were once humans that mutated into something more from the mindfpqyer influence

@zarathoucles 5 жыл бұрын

Sick stuff mate keep it up!!!

@ryanrizzo4869 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, Jorphdan! Im here to bug you again for individual Dale videos! ;) lol Like Shadowdale, Featherdale, Harrowdale, Battledale, etc. Im currently running a game for my wife in the Dalelands and these would be SUPER useful! Thanks in advance and keep up the great content!

@manuelleites5981 5 жыл бұрын

And yesss please more spelljammer

@SB-ho1zo 5 жыл бұрын

I am really interested in their spelljammer. Is there some video about kinds of spelljammers?

@evantyler8647 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, we need this Jorphdan!

@goragabdula8203 5 жыл бұрын

Oh, my. I am fond of illithids and I know all information that you have presented. Anyway, This video is cool!

@berrybooks2777 5 жыл бұрын

Just started watching like a week ago and already I think finnished all your videos. Would love to see something on beholders

@carsormyr 5 жыл бұрын

This channel is so dope.

@MRSterling78 4 жыл бұрын

In honor of Baldur’s Gate 3... How would you role play a Mind Flayer? Would it be different if it was a community? A Ulitharid? An exile? An Elder Brain?

@al881347 5 жыл бұрын

The gith deserve a whole video. They are the mix of all the best "slave" races, breed over countless milenia... Think about it, they are one of the most interesting races written for DND.

@manuelleites5981 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome vid.

@alexwest2514 4 жыл бұрын

JORFDAN

@pest1l3nce 2 жыл бұрын

great video

@demoix 3 жыл бұрын

Twelve days of Christmas dnd monster edition again this year please! 🎅🎊

@Thagomizer 3 жыл бұрын

I remember reading about Mind Flayers keeping their tadpoles in the same pool as the Elder Brain, but I don't remember reading about tadpole metamorphosis through the transformation of humanoid hosts. Was that new to 3e or 4e?

@michaelng351 5 жыл бұрын

That Buff Ilithid is... yeah

@nickalvarez3635 Жыл бұрын

Imagine an ullithid dracolich. Goddamn.

@Taylor1989s 5 жыл бұрын

So this video is well done and I do love it but more importantly it has show the that J's voice will put my daughter to sleep lol

@kilroy987 2 жыл бұрын

Long ago in 2e I had a campaign thought up around good-aligned illithids trying to stop powerful evil illithids from taking control of the Spelljammer to defeat their world. The PCs find a wrecked ship of a good aligned illithid with a simple ring that serves as an Ultimate Helm. The unwitting PC then ends up on the Spelljammer after a terrible fight against an evil illithid ship (which the Spelljammer ends with a sphere of annihilation from its tail), forced to land. The captain provides them harbor but is killed by an evil illithid that made it on to the ship. Naturally the resident illithid among the population is blamed. Eventually a conspiracy is revealed (can't remember what it is) that causes a civil war to break out, until illithid ships from both sides show up, one side razing the Spelljammer's surface. The populace unites to fight against the ship threat. The PCs must race to take the Spelljammer back from the new evil illithid captain, then captain the Spelljammer themselves to turn the tide in the battle. Eventually they are provided a Smalljammer on which to pursue the head evil illithid ship and end the evil illithid threat. It wasn't a bad idea, just ambitious and hard to organize, especially fleshing out the NPCs that live on the Spelljammer. I read the book The Ultimate Helm in one day to give me at least some ideas.

@islandbrowncoat 2 жыл бұрын

I played a mindflayer wizard named Cuddles who just wanted to be everyone's friend, "he" (technically illithids are hermaphroditic) was sent on a fake quest because the illithid colony was ashamed of him. Had the uncomfortable habit of absentmindedly tentacle-caressing other pc's heads.

@charchuk7456 3 жыл бұрын

Think about: Two Illithid brood and host brother brothers. The tadpoles and the host bodies were both brothers. One mindflayer is a brain surgeon and the other is a psychologist. They're both respected in their fields and productive citizens in the community. Of course they're rivals, each downplaying the others philosophy of brain health.

@chaoticneutral7573 2 жыл бұрын

Brain hungry Squidward people goes blub blub 🐙

@briangronberg6507 5 жыл бұрын

Are all illithid capable of laying eggs, but only a select few are tasked by the Elder Brain to do so?

@aguyhere7945 5 жыл бұрын

I imagine there's probably some kind of fairly strict population controll going if only because a bigger population means they'd need to hunt down more hosts/food brains and that sort of thing would increase the risk of exposing the colony.

@Punmaster9001 5 жыл бұрын

Having watched Stranger Things 3 now, I would say some ideas were borrowed loosely over all 3 seasons. And if not, it's one hell of a coincidence how somethings developed and more so with things not ultimately used

@dixieflatline9772 5 жыл бұрын

They are not Lovecraftian. They are from World of Ptaavs.

@The_Petrichor 5 жыл бұрын

Contrast the mind flayer from the aboleth; the things mind flayers hate most

@gabrielcunha2260 5 ай бұрын

So what kind of Mind Flayer is the Emperor in Bg3?

@ThaKKatt 9 ай бұрын

and here we all meet to learn wtf is going on in what will be GOTY 2023

@corvobranco9909 4 жыл бұрын

What about Nymphs ? Does baby illithids placed in Nymphs generate beautiful Mind Flayers, so beautiful that you would be blind by look at them? Well, possibly that individual would be free from the concerns about die at old age. On the other hand, is interesting to imagine what effect such a monster would have in the environment. Like "Old Brain daddy married a decorator" perhaps.

@johnshadwick2287 5 жыл бұрын

screen shot at 1:37 where is that from?

@Jorphdan 5 жыл бұрын

The Rage of Demons launch trailer! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oZhmnMeDlbe9cY0.html

@davidberkowitz7411 5 жыл бұрын

Is this the best video...we will see "Thune".

@eatme5470 5 жыл бұрын

How is the Elder brain created?

@CharalamposKoundourakis 5 жыл бұрын

Huh that man was telling the truth on that Facebook post. There was an illithid video.

@-psilo-9071 5 ай бұрын

BAULDERS GATE 3 LETS GO

@2MeterLP 4 жыл бұрын

The Mindflayers fate is cyclical. Get big. Get slaves. Get creative. Get destroyed by psyonic slaves.

@ProffessorYellow 10 ай бұрын

Githzerai seem so much more OP than the yankees

@darbizzlebacon 5 жыл бұрын

I still pronounce it "Dwear-garr" (dwɛɹ.ɡɑɹ) which is the correct Germanic pronunciation

@SoyMarcos001 5 жыл бұрын

They also created the Oblex

@Jorphdan 5 жыл бұрын

True!

@brightglory5734 4 жыл бұрын

The PH is Thune.

@InternetSupervillain 5 жыл бұрын

In honor of Baldur's Gate 3 I'm assuming.

@erikmartin4996 5 жыл бұрын

Is your new campaign DCC?

@Jorphdan 5 жыл бұрын

Nope I'm back to playing D&D 5e. Ghosts of Saltmarsh and a homebrew game!

@greenhawk3796 2 жыл бұрын

Actually I can tell you exactly what Thoon is. The opposite of later.

@Jorphdan 2 жыл бұрын

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@brandonotto3031 4 жыл бұрын

Could you do yuan.ti lore

@gabrielrussell5531 5 жыл бұрын

1:32 One Dwarfoid (Creatures that are like Dwarves. Humanoid if you think things need to be defined relative to the least interesting/important species) brain a month. None of the 5E books provided a number for how much they had to eat. Thank you! This puts a pretty hard mathematical cap on the size of a colony.

@kuanlimputera 5 жыл бұрын

avatar of chluthu ? if that so. they fuck up.

@athetos461 5 жыл бұрын

Finally! I play a Mind Flayer in our Forgotten Realms campaign.

@erikmartin4996 5 жыл бұрын

Do you ever get tired of FR? In your campaign do you run everything out of FR?

@Jorphdan 5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say I got tired of FR, but I do run other games. I have a Greyhawk Saltmarsh game currently, before that I was running a Hot Springs Island game.

@mlgspringtrapboii_3035 5 жыл бұрын

Are mind flayers real

@dvnjsmth 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Yes we are.

@mackerzz7147 2 жыл бұрын

@@dvnjsmth Davin! For god sake don’t tell everyone…

@finalapostate7319 5 жыл бұрын

i dont like it that you only have 50k subs

@Azure923 4 жыл бұрын

ok i need to ask why put in the ph and then say its silent it just not make sense.

@Jorphdan 4 жыл бұрын

Great question!

@JulianVJacobs 4 жыл бұрын

perhaps they shun magic because it's the reason their society collapses in the future and is thus the reason they travelled to the past.

@anthonyturner791 5 жыл бұрын

Not last

@dracosdiabolis1769 5 жыл бұрын

A Ulitharid sees the power in wizardary and becomes a wizard. leaves the colony to form his own cabal of sorts. and that Ulitharid becomes the Elder Brain of that new colony that functions a lot like a wizards school. Have fun that this one DMs'

@dawsonhelf7922 5 жыл бұрын

Dracos Diabolis, Oooh... Now THAT is what I like to see in the Forgotten Realms. OH! What if an alchemist with great knowledge of all forms of the arts (arcane, divine, and psionic) manages to get an Illithid worm and get someone to be the host, while at the same time isolate that individual from ANY other Illithid colony and keeping it alive, think of the possibilities that would make out of it! -Double D

@dracosdiabolis1769 5 жыл бұрын

@@dawsonhelf7922 sounds fun to play. lol now I have ideas spinning

@dawsonhelf7922 5 жыл бұрын

Dracos Diabolis,🤩 Thank you~! -Double D

@thepurehealer1279 5 жыл бұрын

...like a bad hentai?

@rzar4971 Жыл бұрын

The newest comment if S 3 year ago...

@Airehcaz 8 ай бұрын

Y’know usually I’m all like, “genocide, hey that’s not cool. I don’t much like genocide, I tell ya.” but these Mind Flayer fellas really aren’t very nice.