How do illithids reproduce?

Illithids are hermaphroditic creatures who each spawn a mass of larvae two or three times in their life. The larvae resemble miniature illithid heads or four-tentacled tadpoles. Larvae are left to develop in the pool of the Elder Brain.
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How do mind flayers breed?

The mind flayer cannot reproduce. All their young are generated from the Elder Brains which are spawned from only the rare six tentacle mind flayers, Ulitharid. Thus, it requires a colony to reproduce and those individuals that are categorized as mind flayers are not part of a colony.
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Are illithids asexual?

Illithids are genderless and asexual as well as physically sexless, and having a gender identity and/or a sex drive are considered disgusting by the majority of illithids.
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How to mind flayers reproduce?

Mind flayers begin their lives as tiny parasitic tadpoles which hatch from eggs in spawning pools. Adult mind flayers are hermaphroditic, and perhaps two or three times in their lifetime they will lay a batch of around one thousand eggs in the pool.
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Do illithids lay eggs?

Illithids were all asexual, without male or female biological sex. The Elder Brain will lay a clutch of eggs from which tadpoles hatch. The tadpoles were kept in the Elder Brain spawning pool, where they are fed brains by caretakers and engage in cannibalism for around ten years.
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Do mind flayers have minions?

Mind flayers mainly used their other spells to enslave their minions and keep them under total control, but they were also used on the battlefield.
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Did Vecna create the Mind Flayer?

Vecna created the Mind Flayer when he arrived in the Upside Down and identified the Mind Flayer's particles/hive mind as being the missing piece in his plan to gain ultimate power. Whenever Vecna kills someone, he "consumes" them, according to Dr. Brenner; that means he acquires their consciousness and power.
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Can gnomes become mind flayers?

Gnome ceremorphs were creatures that resulted from a modified version of ceremorphosis, in which an illithid tadpole was implanted into a gnome. Unlike typical mind flayers, successful gnome ceremorphs retained partial memories of their previous lives, as well as much of their personality.
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Are mind flayers and illithids the same?

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, illithids (commonly known as mind flayers) are monstrous humanoid aberrations with psionic powers.
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What happens to mind flayers if the elder brain dies?

Apparently, a mind flayer more than five miles away from the elder brain at the time of death will usually just strike out on its own, and it can't get within five miles of another brain or it'll fall under its control.
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Do illithids have a god?

In any case, Ilsensine was held by the illithids as the Creator God, and allegedly existed alongside other deities before they created mortals.
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Can illithids be good?

It is possible, but unlikely for various reasons. But Illithid as a species are not innately evil by default, just strongly urged to be evil. There are some canonical(ish) good illithid, but it's definitely not the norm.
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Do illithid have souls?

Official sources state Illithids do not have souls, period.
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What is the lifespan of a mind flayer?

Ecology: Mind flayers live about 125 years. They are warm-blooded amphibians, and spend the first 10 years of life as tadpoles, swimming in the elder-brain pool until they either die (which most do) or grow into adult illithids.
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What are mind flayers immune to?

Vampiric mind flayers lack any resistance to physical damage at all, but they're resistant not only to necrotic damage but also to psychic damage.
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What do mind flayer tadpoles turn into?

Ceremorphosis is the natural reproduction process of the mind flayer. It involves inserting a live illithid tadpole into the mind of a captive humanoid host, consuming their mind over the course of days and transforming the body into a mind flayer.
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Can illithids use magic?

Illithid Sorcerers

For the most part, an illithid with the gift of sorcery will use defensive spells such as greater invisibility and resist energy as well as spells to further hinder enemies, such as ray of exhaustion and touch of idiocy.
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What are illithids afraid of?

Fears and Allergies - Ed 13/7/12 Yes, all illithids have some deep-rooted fears, and the chief one is a fear of going insane. They loathe creatures that are immune or highly resistant to their mind-powers, and beings they regard as possibly mentally stronger than they are.
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Do mind flayers remember who they were?

Re: Does the Mind Flayer retain memory? Nope. While these are a few scattered examples of some vestiges of the host's personality lingering in an illithid, in the overwhelming majority of instances the host is utterly destroyed. The illithid does not have the host's soul.
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Can dwarves become mind flayers?

In particular, only humans, elves, drow, tieflings, aasimar, githyanki, githzerai, grimlocks, gnolls, human-sized goblinoids, and orcs produce viable mind flayers.
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Are mind flayers asexual?

Using their incredible psionic powers, Mind Flayers are able to absorb the memories of a creature that they feed on. The other unique thing about Mind Flayer physiology is that they're an asexual species, and instead reproduce through tadpoles.
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Is it possible to reverse ceremorphosis?

It was only possible to interrupt ceremorphosis and save the host before this initial stage was completed, and even so it was only possible to do so by killing the tadpole, which was complicated by its location.
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Did the upside down exist before Vecna?

When El banishes Henry into the Upside Down, there's nothing really there. The whole realm already existed. The Mind Flayer already existed, the Demo-creatures already existed. Henry turns into Vecna, and then forms the Upside Down as it is known after that.
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Who's stronger, Vecna or the Mind Flayer?

When Vecna found it, he knew that it was an extremely powerful weapon that he can use, he decided to give the cloud an actual shape, use it to control the entire upside down and turn it into his superior form given that Vecna himself said that he found a way to transcend his human form, in other words the Mind Flayer ...
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Did 11 create the upside down?

Also, while Eleven didn't create the Upside Down, there is a good chance that it looks like Hawkins because Henry/Vecna rebuilt it in the design of the home that he remains conflicted about.
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