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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Are Vecna and the Mind Flayer the same?

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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Do mind flayers exist in exandria?

Mind flayers, also known as illithids, are aberrations with potent psionic abilities, inhabiting the Underdark of Exandria.
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What even is the mind flayer?

The Mind Flayer, also known as the shadow stranger things monster, exercises supreme control over the Upside Down through a psychic link. This link connects all entities within the Upside Down, including Demogorgons, vines, Demobats, and for a time, possessed humans known as 'the Flayed'.
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Can goblins 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 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 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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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 created the Mind Flayer?

Creative origins

The mind flayer was an original invention of D&D creator Gary Gygax.
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Do illithid have souls?

Official sources state Illithids do not have souls, period.
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Are the illithid from the future?

It is said that Illithids come from the end of time, and seeing their near annihilation, they went back in time, about 2000 years before the start of every DnD campaign.
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How did the illithid Empire fall?

There remained one outstanding and contradictory theory about the Illithid Empire, at least which was overthrown by the great gith rebellion. It was believed by some that it was not founded by illithids that overthrew their progenitors, but had arrived from some unknowable future.
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How powerful are illithids?

Known as illithid psions, they were capable of even more remarkable feats of psionic power, including telekinetic abilities akin to mage hand and telekinesis; further mental control abilities such as charm person, command, sanctuary, fear, crown of madness, phantasmal force, and confusion; and even divination abilities ...
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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 Eleven create Vecna?

However, after he reveals his true nature as a misanthropic, nihilistic and genocidal psychopath, Eleven succeeded in overpowering Henry and sent him to the Upside Down, where he was gradually disfigured by its abnormal lightning and toxic atmosphere, triggering his transformation into the being known as Vecna.
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Did Eleven create the upside down?

Millie Bobby Brown confirms that Eleven did not create the Upside Down, but rather opened a gateway to it, putting an end to the debate.
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Who is the god of the Mind Flayer?

With Maanzecorian's death, Ilsensine became the undisputed supreme god of the mind flayers.
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How do illithids reproduce?

According to The Illithiad, they are egg-layers. They are hermaphrodites, and spawn twice in their lives. About a thousand eggs are laid in a brine pool housing an elder brain. They hatch tadpoles, which mature over a ten-year span (only 1 in a thousand reach maturity, the rest are prey for the elder brain).
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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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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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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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Can you become an illithid in BG3?

As for the game's narrative, while becoming just a half-Illithid has no major impact, it opens the door later down the line to become a full Illithid. Fully transforming into a Mind Flayer will dramatically change the game's ending, so be careful going down this path.
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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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Can mindflayers become vampires?

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 controls mind flayers?

That Elder Brain is not only the leader of their culture, but the being that controls all Mind Flayers in a colony. That makes Mind Flayers little more than puppets of the Elder Brain, and should one of them be disconnected from the colony, the original host of the parasite would now be in control.
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