#mindflayers

[howgalling]

data transfer ^^ <3

[venacoeurva]

What if we held tentacles and hands 😳❓and we were both illithids 🦑🧠🤔💖💕

-Please do not reupload/edit or use without crediting, though feel free to actually use this as a valentine-

[bbqsean]

My beautiful son ✨️

[thestalkerbunny]

Is it professional as a Second Pilot of a massive ship to show up 40 minutes late cause your aesthetic specklings aren't on point?

[twinkliker3000]

why do you want to fuck a mindflayer so bad😕🙏🏾

You are asking this ON TUMBLR?? LAND OF MONSTER FUCKERS?? Why WOULDNT I fuck the 8-foot-tall tentacle man that feasts on brains?

[dirtybg3confessions]

Not dirty at all but does anyone else wanna chew on the mindflayers' tentacles?? They look chewable, like gummyworms. No?? Just me??

[dervampireprince]

t4t mindflayers because i said so! yes i coloured this one, i just thought their green-ish skin was a funky colour and i wanted to shade it and make it all glowy.

[18+ only, minors dni] [uncensored art on bluesky] [reblogs help artists more than likes]

[dragonagitator]

From Reddit, on illithid souls:

Copypasted comment with clickable links:

Illithids do have souls though. Illithids have non-apostolic souls whereas the other mortals have apostolic souls.

Non-apostolic souls are worthless to the gods so they are basically useless. To the gods, it is the same as not having one, as they can't use it. The way I see it, the soul gets transformed, not destroyed, not sent elsewhere.

Here is a compendium of evidence showing just that:

Ed Greenwood saying that illithids have "non apostolic" souls: https://imgur.com/Y4uZDem

(Ed Greenwood is the original creator of the Forgotten Realms)

Withers screenshot of him saying "apostolic" souls: https://imgur.com/hRN0hjg

Withers stating he recognises the "one within" the Emperor: https://imgur.com/fcjGJCZ

The Narrator saying your soul "thrums in relief": https://imgur.com/6NOXXz0

Screenshot of Mystra saying all of illithid Gale's prayers will be answered "henceforth": https://imgur.com/fGprceF

This proves that Mystra still sees Gale as 'Gale' and not some rando mind flayer. Otherwise she would never promise such a thing.

Screenshot of Mystra saying she will 'restore' Gale's soul: https://imgur.com/FvNsW6a

She doesn't say return, or rebuild, but 'restore'. Perhaps she is able to turn it back into an apostolic soul again, but only if he joins her.

Screenshot of Speak to Dead on Gortash's corpse: https://imgur.com/E7ntAQt

Suggests that something to do with souls is required for the spell. We can cast speak with dead on mind flayer's.

Illithids are aberrations, they come from the far realms, hence the non-apostolic soul.

[lotusfaebell]

⊱ illithid Powers

[howgalling]

mindflayer sketch... clear white plastic with pastel pink gooey interior + big red gal

[venacoeurva]

Painting practice because it’s been a minute, Squid Edition™️

-Please do not reupload/edit/use-

[technomancer-01]

Tome Fragment (Cthulhu Section)

"When the carcass of Kos washed up on the coast, its insides were teeming with tiny parasites, unlike any found in humans.”

Something uncanny about cephalopods, from Bloodborne to Baldur’s Gate. I’m thinking to update and clean this Kos Parasite one soon. It may not be Halloween yet but the cold weather is putting me in a mood for Bloodborne and selling it as a tome fragment.

Instagram: Technomancer_01

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/Technomancer01

[thestalkerbunny]

Some Mindflayers. I've been just in a silly funny mood.

The Captain Mindflayer from the 'PRETTIEST ILLITHID ON DECK' comic, a 'Sexy, High Femme' Mindflayer, Mindflayer but make it evening wear and a sort of 'Young Adult Mindflayer' look.

It's a fun challenge of sorts, that the requirements for the Stalky Brand Mindflayer Fashion looks is 'BDSM quality, leather, must have snatched thin waists, big boots and perpetually androgynous.'

[frostbite-711]

2024’s Art vs Artist

Drew a lot of mindflayers/squids this year 😅

[bitchesgate3]

Pretty much everything in the game having to do with mindflayers, the Elder Brain, the Grand Design, the drama of it all, the betrayals, and the players being revealed and exiting stage - all of it is actually pretty incredible in bg3.

It's probably the biggest thing that keeps me going in Act 3, because each piece of information you learn helps you reframe prior experiences to reveal even MORE information.

And if you try too hard to make all the hidden pieces make sense, you really do start to replicate the stereotype of a "crazy person".

Which I believe frames characters like Orin and particularly her "hysterical" behavior as more credible than you might have initially taken them for.

My one and ONLY criticism to an otherwise stellar story is the fact that everything we learn about mindflayers should have also been punctuated by the existence, behavior, and culture of their former-slaves-turned-hunters: the Githyanki.

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When all the games of the mindfuckers were all said and done, after all the frilly subterfuge: they still would butcher you like a common animal as their final assault before asserting their new world order. They would send in their warrior-slaves to finish the job.

But then the gith developed psionics of their own to resist the control of their mindflayer overlords. Through the rage of their warrior-savior Gith, some followed her stead and swore to hunt down every last mindflayer and wipe them from existence. And loot all the material realm as their garden and prize for being their own masters.

While Githzerai disagreed, Githyanki took a violent and aggressive approach to dealing with the mindfuckery of the mindflayers.

We start the game with Lae'zel, we then encounter the Gith Patrol, and then we later on visit the creche. Every one of these encounters and Lae'zel's seemingly stubborn nature should have echoed how to resist the mindflayers' worming themselves into your mind.

We get this advice late in the game, but what if you never let a mindflayer in to begin with? What if you were so resistant to EVERYONE that you could skip all these tips? The Githyanki approach? We can infer as followed:

View everyone as hostile outright so as to not get charmed by false politeness and friendliness. Test their pleasantries by being as bold and unpleasant as you please.

Be assured of yourself as your one and only judge so as not to be too impressionable by a creature constantly shifting the narrative to suit themselves.

Be plunderous yourself, judge all interactions as transactional, so that an ally helping you with your goals is just an ally with no emotional connection. There is no trust to those not vetted kin.

Purge the weak of mind and body, and disregard all the same who might prove a liability especially towards the wiles of temptation.

Showing more of Githyanki culture and mannerisms in relation to how mindflayers operate would have been a way to push players to better question and indulge in that aspect of the plot.

There may be a defensive purpose to being "attack first, ask questions later". Maybe the person's "hysterical" raving and urging you not to trust someone has a reason for saying as much.

When there is a group of entities pulling the strings in the unseen and the unsaid, and you may not ever know how or why - never fully understanding the whole scheme - it pays to know how others resisted it before.

[andauril]

Lae'zel's reaction to Mindflayer!Tav is honestly the most real one. She knows the Mindflayer isn't Tav anymore; this is the tadpole, having completed ceremorphosis. The person you used to be is gone. What is left is the tadpole, and your body, twisted beyond recognition. The Mindflayer might have your memories; it might even think it is you, but they're not the same person. Like, Gale proposing to Mindflayer!Tav is cute and all, but the man should honestly know better.

Does this mean Mindflayer!Tav is automatically evil? No. Omeluum is a good example of a friendly Illithid. But Omeluum is also not its host. The Emporer is not Balduran either. At best, Mindflayer!Tav (or Mindflayer!Karlach, etc.) is an extreme case of partialism (where something of the Host's mind is left over instead of being completely subsumed). This is also likely the case with the Emporer. TL;DR: Lae'zel would not love you as a worm and I love her for being real like that.