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Wingless wonders, also known as alkadas, walking eggs, and the stupidest things ever to waddle the Realms, were strange and clumsy creatures that seemed to combine the worst features of mind flayers and turnips.

Wingless wonders were endlessly curious, touching all they could with their tentacles just to see if it was good to eat, and often eating it anyway, while they lacked all fear, caution, intelligence, or even common sense. People plundered them for gobbled-up shinies or used them for waste disposal, but their magical and psionic powers made them almost hazardous.

Even more hazardously, an estimated 20–25% of wingless wonders were in fact great wizards in disguise, from Netherese arcanists in hiding, to drow spellcasters operating as spies and assassins, to great mages defeated in duels and polymorphed into this humiliating form, to an ignoble reincarnation bestowed by Mystra. Most were trapped and inevitably driven quite, quite mad. (Archive | Read more...)