Maanzecorian

Maanzecorian (meaning "creed leader" or "creed liaison" in Undercommon), was an entity that embodied mind flayer ideals of complete knowledge and comprehension. The illithid god of secret knowledge was one of the first casualties in Tenebrous's search for his wand.

"Dead, god is dead! The secrets are lost. It has slain our great Maanzecorian..."

- Dleniacorus, former proxy of Maanzecorian.

Description
Maanzecorian appeared as a tall illithid with purple-green skin and yellowed tusks on the sides of his tentacles.

Personality
Like his superior Ilsensine, the vain Philosoflayer believed the illithids to be the natural rulers of all planes and worlds and born dominators of all other races, those lesser breeds fit only to be their food and slaves. However, the sagacious deity also considered that there were valuable things to be learned from other minds before consumption, the act of devouring brains a delight made all the sweeter if looked forward to and indulged in later on.

The mind flayer god of secrets was a veritable treasure trove of lore and knowledge, some of it of multiversal importance and other pieces seemingly innocuous bits of trivia and personal information.

Powers
Maanzecorian's avatar had a vast array of magic at their disposal. It could cast domination, hypnotism, hypnotic pattern, rainbow pattern, and power word stun three times per day. Once per day he could create a disjuncton, screen, or call down a weird on a nearby group of creatures.

Possessions
A silver crown levitated above Maanzecorian's head with a gem of brightness embedded inside, though the light had no ill effects on illithids.

Realm
Maanzecorian's realm was on the second layer of Gehenna, the violent and inhospitable mount of Chamada. The conceited god's palace was known as Rictus, a lavish abode furnished with jet, jade, ivory, marble, and various types of skins, and which also housed a great library of arcane works.

He also had a base for his spies and proxies near the Caverns of Thought in the Outlands known as the Rotting Oracle. The structure was half-sunk in an oily mire, and housed the end of a one-way portal from Gehenna between two of its pillars.

Activities
On rare occasions, due to the small size of his clergy, Maanzecorian would attend the conclaves of his priests as an avatar to converse, meditate, and share knowledge, preferring to do the lattermost activity directly rather than with omens. If a situation seemed highly favorable, it was possible he would even appear to negotiate conflicts between mind flayers and other races.

Relationships
Though always deferential to Ilsensine, the Great Brain was also Maanzecorian's rival, hence the Rotting Oracle to spy upon it, and he didn't always share all he knew with his superior.

Worshipers
Maanzecorian was as much a divine entity as a collection of concepts and ideals. He was considered narrower in scope than Ilsensine. He embodied what mind flayers understood as a state of perfect comprehension of knowledge, a simultaneous recall of memory, thought, and aptitude. Maanzecorian was also considered a keeper of secrets. The illithids' reverence and meditation on the ideals represented by Maanzecorian could be considered a form of worship.

Some of the ideals of perfect recollection of memory embodied by Maanzecorian were observed in aboleths, who possessed a type of racial memory that passed from one generation to the next and could always be perfectly remembered. This led to frequent conflicts between aboleths and mind flayers.

History
Sometime in the mid-14 century DR, Maanzecorian was believed to have been killed by Tenebrous, a shadowy manifestation of Orcus after his defeat at the hands of Kiaransalee. Upon discovering that Maanzecorian, a deity of secrets, knew information that could lead to the location of the Wand of Orcus, Tenebrous ripped that knowledge from Maanzecorian's mind and destroyed the deity's essence and his entire realm in Gehenna with it.

At this time, illithids who were granted divine spells from Maanzecorian woke up to discover that the deity no longer granted them power or signs. They found out about the deity's demise through divination magic.

By the late 15 century DR, mind flayer colonies adhering to Maanzecorian's precepts could once again be found.