#illithid dragon

[akiartspace]

Here's Qir the Sea Monarch! they're a brainstealer sea serpent/sea dragon ancient(not yet old enough to be a wyrm) whose psionics are completely focused on Hydrokinesis and Atmokinesis(storm control/creation) They're also a 2nd gen brainstealer, which means they are the hatchling of two artificially created brainstealers. Since these dragons can procreate between themselves and with other dragons producing weird mutants wyrmlings according to the dragon magazine where they were expanded upon. They're friendly with illithids, sometimes (they got a big attitude for being such a small brainstealer)

[diesvitae]

The Emperor each time Tav does something stupid.

[quartervirus]

PRESENTATION!!!

I was going out of my MIND trying to draw character likenesses, and took a break to draw something without a human face instead.

Only to hit another wall because how in the Hells does one draw an Illithid ... two Illithids?? Multiple Illithi???

Anyway, here are some sketches I didn't utterly hate 🦑

Also who designed the Emperor's Armour. Seriously. Whose idea was that. I swear, I only want to talk ... I won't strangle you for those details. But seriously though, I need names ... and maybe an address.

[mintcrows]

thats not an intellect devourer....

[inkegg]

I am attempting Tumblr again bc I hear the emperor lovers like it here and I love you

[thedawner]

Time lapse video of me coloring The Emperor's ass.

Baldur's Gate 3 fanart.

[superectojazzmage]

My Baldur’s Gate 3 hot take is that debates about whether or not Emperor Balduran is trustworthy or or not are a waste of time because a great deal of the point of the character — narratively and gameplay-wise — is that he’s an extension of you. YOU interpret and decide on his personality, nature, and choices the same way you do with your Tav.

If you want him to genuinely be the flawed and odd-thinking but ultimately noble and heroic “token good Mind Flayer” that he presents himself as, then he will be like that simply because you treat him as being such. He’ll be trustworthy and dependable, totally truthful about only wanting what’s best for Baldur’s Gate and about wanting to free the Illithids from Elder Brain control and make ceremorphosis a consensual choice, while also being open to compromise in the name of forging bonds. He’ll be the unlikely hero who, with you by his side, uses the Stones to destroy the Absolute and save his beloved city.

If you want him to be and treat him like a backstabbing, manipulative liar and potentially dangerous monster who is at best disconnected from basic reality, at worst a murderous narcissist trying to bend you to his will, then he’ll act like it. His interactions with be tense, snappish, and uncomfortable. He’ll threaten you, make unreasonable demands, never compromise, and try to assert control over the party while making clear that your alliance is one of convenience and necessity. And ultimately, he’ll either betray you and defect to the Absolute’s side because he can’t control you or, at your urging, hijack things and use the Absolute to take over the world.

His past is designed to be interpreted in massively different manners depending on what kind of person you want him to be. He killed Ansur either out of justified self defense because Ansur wouldn’t admit that Balduran was still himself beneath the changed form, or because Ansur was trying to stop his evil plans. He dominated Stelmane’s mind because she was a bad person and he wanted to turn the Knights of the Shield into something good, or because he’s an evil manipulator who dominates those he can’t charm. He withheld information from you because he was being cautious and wasn’t sure if you were going to be an ally (like your party members), or because he was manipulating you by making himself seem more sympathetic. He never freed Orpheus and doesn’t want to free him because as an Illithid he rightfully fears a Githyanki Prince and that freeing Orpheus will allow the Netherbrain to control him again, or because he’s an malevolent bastard who knows that Orpheus would ruin his plans. It’s up to you to decide.

He can change tune on a dime, make self-contradictory choices and statements, abruptly do things just because of something you decided to say because you wanted to see what would happen. Just like you do as a player, because he’s as much your PC as Tav. It’s why you get to customize the form he appears in your dreams with. The Emperor is good or evil or whatever depending on what you WANT or MAKE him to be.

[bigmfrat]

Shut the fuck up. Stop Posting. Read this.

The Illithiad

96 pages, mostly pictures. read your fuckin lore.

Lords of Madness

One chapter, 28 pages, mostly pictures and stat blocks with lore in-between.

BG3 doesnt give you shit for mindflayer lore, read the books, here's your links.

I'm not joking when I say its mostly pictures. it's a short ass read.

[othabor]

all my followers are constantly playing a fun game called “guess which fictional character I currently have the hots for based on my reblogs”

[a-rogue-tiddy-bot]

["The illithids had to dominate not only to achieve their goals, but to fulfill certain basic needs of their own. Without a mind to control, a mind flayer would feel incomplete. They actually had an intimate relationship with their own thralls, suffering when they died (whether by sickness, age, or physical harm) and sometimes going mad from loneliness without their constant companionship. Illithids were known to postpone their other goals just to renew an emptied retinue of thralls..."]

Uhm... oh dear... oh... oh shit...

[gaxix]

Baldur's Gate 3 💎

Mind Flayer Emperor

[tench-art]

I watched the new DnD movie and now I am very nostalgic about my ✨special boy✨ and celestial warlock Chiviss

I even have a short comic about emotional baggage of being "born evil"

And the very first picture of him, a concept art, if you will

(he fell into babyfication hole immediately after creation of this image)

[diesvitae]

Everytime I hear about Mind Flayer tadpoles, I can only think of frogs.

And there is only one frog worthy to get… evolved. I present you… Kermit the Illithid. (Forgive me, for I have sinned LMAO)

[quartervirus]

Antidote

Between a full time job, contract work, and day-to-day obligations personal art has taken a real nosedive this year. Add to that @gelly-art gifting me Baldur's Gate for Christmas and you have a recipe for disappearing me straight into the void.

Or up into the Nautiloid, as it were.

But after months chipping away at the game between back-to-back NDAs, utterly failing to maintain any sort of personal routine in favour of sitting at my computer, and over 400+ hours of gameplay later, I can proudly say I have finally finished just ONE full playthrough!💀

I definitely did not see that ending coming – and outright missed a Certain Big Reveal until Gelly yelled at me to roll back (of which I am very grateful. You were right, it was worth finding thank you for that) – but I had a TON of fun! I am already well into my second playthrough, but as I am still discovering new options, alternative endings, and even some areas I missed the first time around –

SSHHHPTHTHHSHHTT! NO SPOILERS!!

NONE!!

SHUT!!

I can't wait to bombard you all with BG3 related art and comics that have been gnawing away at the back of my brain, but until such a time as I can draw them, here's a quickie I whipped up to get back into arting after so long.

[mintcrows]

they got the uppies

+ facehugger friend

[inkegg]

Don't even dont even get me started on how it was such a missed opportunity to connect the falling from the netherbrain to the falling of the nautiloid if romanced with the emperor. To have your lover, who caught you the first time, catch you again and you plummet together into the ocean that he loves so much... absolutely wrecked. It feels so obvious