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– Old Faerunian saying

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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.

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Mindbreaker #1, released on October 20th, 2021, is the first issue in the comic series Mindbreaker which features the Heroes of Baldur's Gate and serves as a prelude to Baldur's Gate III.
Changed by their experiences in Avernus, Krydle, Shandie, Delina, Nerys, Minsc, and Boo return home to Baldur’s Gate to find that something much more insidious has taken root… what could be behind the odd behavior of the Head Librarian of the Knowledge-Hold?
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Dragon+ 39 was released on September 22nd, 2021.

This latest issue contains information on The Wild Beyond the Witchlight as well as the D&D Annual 2022. It also looks at the upcoming Fizban's Treasury of Dragons and a future update for the mobile game Warriors of Waterdeep.

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Starlight Enclave, released on August 3rd, 2021, is a novel featuring Drizzt Do'Urden by R.A. Salvatore, and the first entry in the The Way of the Drow series.
After the settling dust of the demon uprising and two years of peace, rumblings from the Menzoberranzan drow have Jarlaxle nervous. Worried his allies may be pulled into a Civil War between the great Houses, he is eager to ensure Zaknafein is armed with weapons befitting his skill, including one in particular: Khazid’hea. A powerful artifact, the sword known as “Cutter” has started wars, corrupted its users, and spilled the blood of many, many people. Nonetheless—or maybe because of that—the rogue Jarlaxle and a small group of friends will go on an expedition looking for the weapon’s last wielder, Doum’wielle, in the freezing north, for she may be the key to unlocking the sword’s potential…and perhaps the key to preventing the bloodshed looming over the Underdark.

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The Grand Tour is a limited-edition comic published by TSR, Inc. in 1996. Mainly used as promotional material for Dungeons & Dragons and its campaign setting, the Forgotten Realms, the comic features the now-mature characters from the Dungeons & Dragons animated series, and popular characters from the Realms itself.

The famed sextet of adventurers, Bobby, Diana, Eric, Hank, Sheila, and Presto, appear in Shadowdale after somehow arriving from a different world. During their journeys, they had befriended the magical unicorn, Uni, and even faced off against Tiamat herself. Now in Faerûn, they meet the Old Mage, Elminster, and the wizard of the group becomes his apprentice. Elminster and his new student explore the Realms, where they observe legends such as Drizzt Do'Urden and Qilué Veladorn, and even meet the well-known storyteller, Volothamp Geddarm.

Today in the Realms...

...it is 5 Uktar, or the 5th of the Rotting. Selûne is a waning gibbous moon 🌖.  

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