How powerful are illithids?

As many fans of D&D and Baldur's Gate know, Illithids have powerful psionics. Their psychic powers are essentially unmatched even compared to capable wizards, but all of that power doesn't make them impervious to damage. In fact, their own psionics can be their greatest downfall.
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Why are illithids so powerful?

Being as intelligent as they are, endowed with psionic powers, and as physically weak as they are, the illithids believe that the mind is everything and all-important... They consume that which is important to them. A githyanki on the mind flayers.
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Do illithids have a god?

The quick answer is Ilsensine, the philosophy of Maanzecorian, and in some rare cases, Ghaunadaur. The god that most Illithid worship in the Realms is Ilsensine, the Tentacled Lord.
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Are illithid powers worth it?

The short answer is yes, you should use your Illithid powers, but there is a caveat. While your Baldur's Gate 3 companions worry over the disastrous consequences of giving Mind Flayer tadpoles some influence over you, there's not actually anything to worry about until Act 3.
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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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Who is the most powerful illithid?

Baldur's Gate 3: 9 Best Illithid Powers
  • 8 Ability Drain.
  • 7 Psionic Backlash.
  • 6 Favorable Beginnings.
  • 5 Psionic Dominance.
  • 4 Illithid Expertise.
  • 3 Freecast.
  • 2 Fly.
  • 1 Displacer Beast Form.
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Is an illithid a mind flayer?

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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Who is higher Vecna or Mind Flayer?

Dustin Henderson had it wrong - the Mind Flayer isn't the “king” of the Upside Down and Vecna its top general - Vecna/Henry Creel/001 is king of the Upside Down and the Mind Flayer is his top general. Vecna is, essentially, the creator of the Mind Flayer.
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What are the pros and cons of illithid?

The power of the Illithid tadpole is a major point of contention for player characters and their companions. Using Illithid powers has pros like a powerful skill tree, but cons like disapproval from companions and the possibility of becoming a mind flayer.
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Do illithid powers make you evil?

You will not turn into some awful Mind Flayer or receive a bad ending, so to speak, but they can make some end-game fights a little trickier than they ought to be depending on what powers you have activated. Likewise, they can also make some fights easier! All in all, it's not something that you need to worry about.
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Can an illithid become a lich?

There is, apparently, a true illithid lich called an illich or something, but they're exceeedingly rare.
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Why don't illithid have souls?

The soul gets consumed in the process of ceramaphorsis when the mind flayer is connected. There isn't a soul that travels to these planes of existence upon death. For all intents and purposes, they don't have souls in the way that denizens of the Forgotten Realms would understand it.
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Are all illithids evil?

The mind flayer, also called the illithid, is an evil and sadistic being, humanoid in appearance, but with a four-tentacled octopus-like head. These beings are feared throughout the Underdark for their telepathic abilities and usually are not without two or more slaves, mentally bound, to each individual mind flayer.
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How long do illithid people live for?

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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Do illithids have emotions?

Mind flayers are infamously cruel, insidious, and evil. They have no understanding of the feelings humans call "happiness" or "love", possessed internally of only mankind's negative emotions; particularly contempt, fear, envy and hatred. Frustration is a common illithid emotion.
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Why do gith hate mind flayers?

The githyanki and the githzerai were so profoundly scarred by their enslavement to the mind flayers that they forget they were one race, united. Having won their freedom, they wage war against each other with a hatred none can fully comprehend.
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Can an illithid become a vampire?

Illithid vampires were a rare variety of mind flayer that was also a vampire. In order to create an illithid vampire, an egg must be planted in a vampirized host. Such creatures were quite insane, however. The High Master Illithid wished to become one of them.
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What happens if you unlock all illithid powers?

More importantly, overusing Illithid Powers can lock the player into one of the bad endings of Baldur's Gate 3. That may be a perfectly valid choice; the game emphasizes player freedom and plot flexibility, and an unfortunate end may be the best way to wind up the story a particular player character is trying to tell.
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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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Is Eleven stronger than Vecna?

The first reason that Vecna was stronger than Eleven is simple. He was older and more experienced. He was the original subject in Project MKUltra, and using his DNA, Dr. Brenner was able to make or alter the other children so that they would also have powers.
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Who is the most powerful in Stranger Things?

Clearly, at least throughout the series thus far, the Mind Flayer is the most powerful Stranger Things character (or being) by a long shot. While it's hard to know where Vecna ends and the Mind Flayer begins, there is one serious advantage that the Flayer has over the artist formerly known as Henry Creel.
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Can I play as an illithid?

Later in Baldur's Gate 3, you'll then be presented with the option to open your mind to the Supreme Tadpole if you choose to side with the Emperor. Doing so will turn you into a full illithid; your character will transform into a fully-fledged Mind Flayer, and they're pretty powerful.
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Can illithid fly?

Fly is an Action and illithid power that allows a character to fly to a target position using their Movement Speed. It is unlocked automatically for characters who become partial-illithids.
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What is the life cycle of the illithid?

There are four stages to the Illithid life cycle: Tadpole, ceremorphosis, Illithid or Ulitharid and the Elder Brain.
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