Who controls the mind flayers?

According to what the show has shown us so far, Vecna made the mind flayer from the particles to control.
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Who rules the mind flayers?

Mind flayer colonies operated as a single hive mind, with control centralized by an elder brain, a singular entity that exerted its telepathic control simultaneously over all mind flayers within a radius of 5 miles (8 kilometers).
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Does Vecna control the Mind Flayer?

As it turns out, Vecna hasn't been doing the Mind Flayer's bidding; it's been the opposite all along. 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.
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Do elder brains control mind flayers?

Elder brains can supposedly only control mindflayers within 5 miles of themselves.
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Who created the mind flayers?

Publication history. Mind flayers were created by Gary Gygax, who has said that one of his inspirations for them was the cover painting of the Titus Crow book The Burrowers Beneath by Brian Lumley.
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Who is stronger, Mind Flayer or Vecna?

Out of all these monsters, Vecna does have heightened intelligence along with personal motivation, which makes him the most dangerous. He also has the power to cause harm from a distance, and that makes him seem more powerful than the Mind Flayer.
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Who hunts mind flayers?

To defeat and hunt down all Mind Flayers, the Githyanki made a deal with Tiamat. While the nature of the deal is not clear, it allowed Githyanki to ride Red Dragons, dominating the skies in any form of combat.
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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 are mind flayers weak to?

Weaknesses. A mind flayer is vulnerable to certain unique mental and physical illnesses. Exhausting one's mental reserves of psionic energy on a regular basis can cause a brain damage known as psionic cascade, which can trigger psionic powers randomly and eventually cause death.
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Do mind flayers have a God?

Though Ilsensine was the god of mind flayers, it promised power to all who followed them, so sometimes non-illithids, especially evil psions, formed cults in service to it.
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Who controls the Demogorgon?

All Demogorgons encountered thus far are assumed to obey the Mind Flayer and by extension Vecna, and make up part of the Upside Down's hive mind. Under the hive mind's influence, Demogorgons are murderous, violent and have limited intelligence.
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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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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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Who controls the mind flayer?

According to what the show has shown us so far, Vecna made the mind flayer from the particles to control.
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Who killed mind flayer?

The Mind Flayer persisted, but was overwhelmed by El's powers forcing him to retreat back into the Gate. El then sealed it, and the Mind Flayer is heard roaring in anger and defeat afterwards. The closure of the gate resulted in his influence over the Demodogs, and D'Artagnan, to cease and they all died instantly.
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Who is the leader of the mind flayers?

Mind flayer colonies are a telepathic hive mind, led by an elder brain. Perhaps their was a leader of many colonies another step up in power from an elder brain.
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Is the mind flayer higher than Vecna?

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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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 mind flayers see invisibility?

A mind flayer, h, is a type of monster that appears in NetHack. Mind flayers are omnivorous humanoids with octopus-like tentacled heads, and possess flight, telepathy, see invisible, and infravision. They will also collect gold, gems and any other items they come across.
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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 mind flayers read minds?

They can indeed read minds and a whole bunch of other magic. They are a great villain but are very squishy. The jury is out on making face calamari out of them.
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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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How did Baldur become a mind flayer?

Capture and Transformation

At some point during or after the mid–11th century DR, he arrived at Moonrise Towers to seek fortune, only to be captured by mind flayers and their elder brain from a colony hidden beneath the fortification. There, he was subjected to ceremorphosis and transformed into an illithid.
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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.
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What spells protect against mind flayers?

Mirror Image and Reflected Image image spells will help reduce the chance of being hit in melee combat, at least for a short period. Increase your Armor Class rating, since Mind Flayers have a mediocre THAC0 and will miss more often than not.
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