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Mind flayers, also known as illithids, were evil and sadistic aberrations feared by sentient creatures across the multiverse. Alien beings dwelling in the Underdark and possessing powerful psionic abilities, they sought to expand their dominion over all other creatures, controlling their minds to use them as hopeless slaves and devouring their brains for sustenance.

Their origins were clouded in mystery and speculation, but all legends agreed that they were once rulers of vast empires spanning the Prime Material, Astral, and Ethereal planes, which they kept under control by the use of their nautiloids. Their empire collapsed as a result of a revolt of the gith, their most prominent slaves. So violent was the gith uprising that, in less than a year, the entire illithid race was brought to the brink of extinction.

Forced to live in hiding, the mind flayers plotted in darkness their vengeance and the return of their empire. On Toril, some of their most important settlements included Oryndoll and Ch'Chitl, but countless smaller colonies existed. They were undisputed rulers of the planet Glyth, the sixth planet of Realmspace. (Archive | Read more…)