Basically Mind Flayers

Enjoy, took me a little while.
/ runesmith

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  • @tinybluewhale5919
    @tinybluewhale59195 жыл бұрын

    Priority one, protect the brain. Priority two, lunch Seems like a system I can get behind

  • @proxy90909

    @proxy90909

    5 жыл бұрын

    Isnt that how all humans work?

  • @supportyourself3861

    @supportyourself3861

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@proxy90909 Pretty much 😂

  • @willowwindweaver6791

    @willowwindweaver6791

    5 жыл бұрын

    fuck the brain; lunch first, murder second, preserve the hive mind....nah

  • @madscientistshusta

    @madscientistshusta

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ikr!

  • @Bluemilk92

    @Bluemilk92

    5 жыл бұрын

    As an ex-drug addict, gotta say... Protecting the brain can be a surprisingly low priority. 'Specially when compared to lunch.

  • @fairyqt
    @fairyqt5 жыл бұрын

    As the boss for a cult labyrinth, my DM had us fight a mind flayer. We had been building up to fighting this guy for weeks. The mind flayer ended up losing an arm and getting paralyzed from the neck down, so we took him with us. We decided to call him Jimmy. He's our pet and he hates us.

  • @MonkeyJedi99

    @MonkeyJedi99

    5 жыл бұрын

    That last bit, "He's our pet and he hates us." is pure gold!

  • @saulesalejos4483

    @saulesalejos4483

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Ohhh It hates me so much!"- Medic Tf2

  • @jery3385

    @jery3385

    3 жыл бұрын

    "kill me" "Later"

  • @Fedico7000

    @Fedico7000

    3 жыл бұрын

    But... psionics.

  • @arken2583

    @arken2583

    3 жыл бұрын

    Can you say hi to Jimmy for me? He seems nice, ish.

  • @divinkitty9452
    @divinkitty94523 жыл бұрын

    The thing that I love about Mind Flayers is that if they ever leave the vicinity of the Elder Brain's psychic influence they'll become... actually pretty alright people. But the second they're in range of another Elder Brain, BAM, pure evil.

  • @TheYeetedMeat

    @TheYeetedMeat

    Жыл бұрын

    @Pinko Slink just like your girlfriend

  • @brandonsean123

    @brandonsean123

    Жыл бұрын

    @Pinko Slink well… it’s D&D so

  • @crr4482

    @crr4482

    Жыл бұрын

    @Pinko Slink this is D&D and your armchair philosophy doesn't apply here

  • @austinminchue125

    @austinminchue125

    Жыл бұрын

    @@crr4482 What he say?

  • @cartooncritique6625

    @cartooncritique6625

    Жыл бұрын

    So most Mind-Flayers are basically just victims of peer pressure?

  • @eddiespeight8103
    @eddiespeight81035 жыл бұрын

    Damn Squidwards invading my reality!

  • @theman6422

    @theman6422

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eddie Speight how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!

  • @Bluecho4

    @Bluecho4

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hey. The Squidwards were here first. Or possibly last.

  • @BlastoiseMaster

    @BlastoiseMaster

    5 жыл бұрын

    He has the power of clarinets and astrology. Of course he can invade your mind.

  • @iranoutofnames6444

    @iranoutofnames6444

    5 жыл бұрын

    if the world hates his clarinet then he can play it in a different world

  • @Jamesjones-hi5qu

    @Jamesjones-hi5qu

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm sorry earth is closed today!

  • @grampachampa-1901
    @grampachampa-19015 жыл бұрын

    Mind flayers are just salty warlocks

  • @No-wj4nu

    @No-wj4nu

    5 жыл бұрын

    warlock calamari

  • @Ben-qv9td

    @Ben-qv9td

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@No-wj4nu mmmm eldrirch lunch

  • @supercalifragic1551

    @supercalifragic1551

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hentai Warlocks*

  • @colinbrown74

    @colinbrown74

    5 жыл бұрын

    They’re the legion of shameless Mystic players that are 100% using it for the Min Max capabilities and ARE using the most efficient builds. They WILL quit if the GM doesn’t allow Unearthed Arcana.

  • @Spiceodog

    @Spiceodog

    5 жыл бұрын

    Smart salty Squidward warlocks to be exact

  • @Runesmith
    @Runesmith5 жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna sneak a funfact in here: The audio for the far realm is me making fart noises in reverse, screeching like a banshee with pitch shift and reverb, scolding my cat for actually farting, and saying penis like 10 times with a few tweaks. Add in a poorly performed version of the 2001 a space odyssey via trumpet, and there you have a weird ass soundscape.

  • @SuperNerd9695

    @SuperNerd9695

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @Notaripoffbruh

    @Notaripoffbruh

    10 ай бұрын

    What did I just read?

  • @SylvEdu
    @SylvEdu5 жыл бұрын

    One of the legends about their origins is pretty fantastic, actually. Even aboleths are loath to admit that they do not remember a time when mind flayers didn't exist, and aboleths remember the birth of the gods. This is because, by some accounts, the mind flayers were the absolute dominant force in the universe, having enslaved all other races. Then, because of either the heat-death of the universe, no more available hosts, or a massive insurrection that threatened their existence, a small refugee group used future-tech to travel back in time to the beginning of the universe, where they were rather pathetic compared to the great empire they left, and they slowly renewed their species. So the story is actually a paradox... the mind flayers appear from the future, weak and pathetic, and over the course of history get more powerful and more powerful until, in the far future, they reign supreme over the whole universe. Then, when their existence is threatened, a small band of them come back from the future to appear at the beginning of time. Rinse and repeat for infinity, living the same historical course over and over again -- a parasite that can't survive their hosts domination or enslavement.

  • @nathanielsteward2221

    @nathanielsteward2221

    5 жыл бұрын

    Azzy I’m fairly sure it’s the exact opposite with the Aboleth thing, they cannot remember the mindflayer empire...

  • @SylvEdu

    @SylvEdu

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@nathanielsteward2221 That's what I said. Aboleths are loath to admit that they do not remember the origin if the mindflayers.

  • @nathanielsteward2221

    @nathanielsteward2221

    5 жыл бұрын

    Azzy I’m not really sure what you mean by that... it seems that Abloleths cannot remember the mind flayers at all, you’re probably right about time travel shenanigans being involved though.

  • @Micras08

    @Micras08

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@nathanielsteward2221 He is literally saying that the Abloleths are afraid/hesitant/reluctant/unwilling (various synonyms of loath) to admit that they DO NOT know where the mindflayers are coming form :P

  • @network9568

    @network9568

    5 жыл бұрын

    "[T]he inscrutable mind flayers are the race that aboleths come the closest to fearing. The aboleths do not remember the genesis of the illithid race, not even in their racial memories. As far as the aboleths know, the illithids simply appeared from nowhere, and that makes the aboleths uncomfortable. The origin and capabilities of the mind flayers are unknown. Of course, the reason for this is simple: Mind flayers came to the world from the distant future. In a way, the aboleths and the illithids are like cosmic bookends: two similar races with similar goals, one from the ancient past and one from the doomed future." -Lords of Madness I like to push the comparison further: I interpret mind flayers as distant descendants of aboleths who lost their racial memory long before building their empire. It's not explicitely canon, but I think it would be cool.

  • @No-wj4nu
    @No-wj4nu5 жыл бұрын

    a mind flayer colony and village that have a deal where all criminals and captured bandits are given to the ilithids and the ilithids keep the village safe from danger

  • @Artrysa

    @Artrysa

    5 жыл бұрын

    But they are going to expand at some point, such is their nature. So that town is gonna get fucked at some point by the growing population of dickish squids.

  • @MoonbornUwU

    @MoonbornUwU

    5 жыл бұрын

    Now that is clever dming.. Good idea

  • @Shifterwizard

    @Shifterwizard

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Artrysa Ah, but the town itself can ALSO expand! The Mind Flayers can drive business towards the settlement by also working to protect all trade routes, and feasting on thieves who would interfere with said trade. Not to mention reading the minds of anyone who might pass through. They could become a center for spies like Switzerland was a center for mercenaries.

  • @Artrysa

    @Artrysa

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Shifterwizard Aren't Mindflayers lawful evil?

  • @No-wj4nu

    @No-wj4nu

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Artrysa that wold mean that they would better stick to there word

  • @2ndThought_
    @2ndThought_5 жыл бұрын

    "M.E.A.N.I.E.S. ", truly the fiercest club.

  • @xai8666

    @xai8666

    5 жыл бұрын

    Second only to League Of Villainous Evildoers Maniacally United For Frightening Investment in Naughtiness

  • @maxthepaladin2147

    @maxthepaladin2147

    4 жыл бұрын

    or Every Villain Is Lemons

  • @ferbthe2gadgetguy

    @ferbthe2gadgetguy

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@xai8666 especially this.

  • @pleaseenteraname6590

    @pleaseenteraname6590

    4 жыл бұрын

    Austin Smedley no I think that’s the first

  • @freddymeng

    @freddymeng

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pleaseenteraname6590 that's what he said

  • @fuzzwobble
    @fuzzwobble4 жыл бұрын

    Drow and mind flayers often work together. Drow hate fighting mind flayers because dark elves live in a constant state of fear and paranoia, so illithid mess with their sensibilities a lot due to their mind powers. Mind flayers hate fighting drow because they are naturally resistant to their psionics due to enchantment save bonuses and spell resistance (remember that magic/psionic transparency is default). Add to this that the drow can't destroy an illithid commune without huge losses AND the illithid can't hope to destroy a drow commune without huge losses, in either case likely causing their own society to burn, and they almost always truce using economics. The drow provide sapient beings from their raids, and the mind flayers use their powers to assist in subduing and training slaves. Old Underdark books state that "The Illithid don't intend to spare the Drow, but they are satisfied to leave their destruction til last." which is a testament to how solid the arrangements are. Some mind flayer communes may well entirely subsist on 'payments' from larger drow cities for services rendered.

  • @Coryn02

    @Coryn02

    3 жыл бұрын

    I don't know where this comes from (or even if it's official content), but this is so goddamn cool.

  • @buboniccraig896
    @buboniccraig8965 жыл бұрын

    This helped me explain mind flayers to my family after they saw Stranger Things.

  • @jackfalcon5125

    @jackfalcon5125

    3 жыл бұрын

    Liam the popular guy

  • @randomnerd4211

    @randomnerd4211

    3 жыл бұрын

    ...yanno using the analogy in this video, the Demorgorgons are mind flayers and the Mind Flayer is the elder brain. Where the human salsa monster from season 3 fits in this equation I have no idea. Mini Elder Brain?

  • @buboniccraig896

    @buboniccraig896

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jackfalcon5125 ikr im so cool

  • @ratboy5761

    @ratboy5761

    3 жыл бұрын

    Idk why they took the name mindflayer it's nothing like the actual monster

  • @mr.cup6yearsago211

    @mr.cup6yearsago211

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ratboy5761 to be fair, neither are the Demogorgons.

  • @vex_instincts5183
    @vex_instincts51834 жыл бұрын

    Priority 3: don’t get involved with the protagonists in a DnD session.

  • @kapmando

    @kapmando

    2 жыл бұрын

    Universal rule for monsters.

  • @arcanistthesonofianite249

    @arcanistthesonofianite249

    2 жыл бұрын

    You haven't watched Critical Role campaign 1 have you?

  • @loppydoodle726

    @loppydoodle726

    2 жыл бұрын

    Priotiry 4: BECOME the protaganist in a DnD session

  • @UmekCrafter
    @UmekCrafter5 жыл бұрын

    Also Giths like to raid Illithid colonies as if that was one-time event on WOW server

  • @bonefetcherbrimley7740

    @bonefetcherbrimley7740

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ah the wrath of the lich king zombie outbreak. Good times.

  • @Wellshem

    @Wellshem

    3 жыл бұрын

    Basically Asmongold when he goes online

  • @gabrielrussell5531
    @gabrielrussell55315 жыл бұрын

    2:39 "Mr. Gith" Gith was Ms.

  • @Revenante_of_Asylum

    @Revenante_of_Asylum

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was like "Wait, I thought Gith was female," as well when I heard that bit.

  • @zoushaomenohu

    @zoushaomenohu

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Revenante_of_Asylum Yeah, me too.

  • @Grinnar

    @Grinnar

    5 жыл бұрын

    And also the Gith were originally humans, not elves.

  • @gabrielrussell5531

    @gabrielrussell5531

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Grinnar The "used to be human" thing was of dubious canon before, and hasn't been acknowledged in several editions. They were always their own unique race. The elves comment was merely aboot their appearance.

  • @Grinnar

    @Grinnar

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@gabrielrussell5531 you say that, but there's nothing that disputes my assertion.

  • @dropkickpherby6994
    @dropkickpherby69945 жыл бұрын

    Here for that Baldur's Gate III pre-knowledge!

  • @jerredmanns7105

    @jerredmanns7105

    5 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, friends!

  • @Grinnar

    @Grinnar

    5 жыл бұрын

    Until you realize that Varian doesn't know what they're doing.

  • @dropkickpherby6994

    @dropkickpherby6994

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Grinnar would you have said that about Any studio that is given the license? Larian are very renowned for turn based RPGs

  • @Grinnar

    @Grinnar

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@dropkickpherby6994 I'm very familiar with Larian. Their successes are either at the hands of one of the best writers in the industry (Chris Avellone), or misappropriating Kickstarter money (Dragon Commander->Original Sin 1).

  • @janelantestaverde2018

    @janelantestaverde2018

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh hey, yeah, same. I watched the trailer and was like "Who's this handsome abomination?"

  • @leetzabach5793
    @leetzabach57935 жыл бұрын

    Bruh aint nobody gon' talk about that Critical Role Rule 34 in the background at 1:25?

  • @opota4113

    @opota4113

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh shit dude I only noticed it nos

  • @J--12

    @J--12

    5 жыл бұрын

    Do you have source?

  • @calindboard5114

    @calindboard5114

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@J--12 its rule thirty four so check the rule 34 site

  • @luisrangel909

    @luisrangel909

    5 жыл бұрын

    How do you know its a Critical role 34?

  • @WarsmithThanatos

    @WarsmithThanatos

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@luisrangel909 Because its Clarota nailing Vex. Dont ask

  • @Bluecho4
    @Bluecho45 жыл бұрын

    Minor Correction: While Mind Flayers can Levitate at will, the Levitate spell/effect is not the same as the _Fly_ spell/effect. Levitate only lets you go up and down. You need Fly to be your replacement for walking. In conclusion, Mind Flayers would not have super atrophied legs. Alas, they must still get a bare minimum of cardio when crossing rooms.

  • @gaminreasons8941

    @gaminreasons8941

    4 жыл бұрын

    While this is technically true I prefer the image of Mindflayers gently floating around everywhere when they don't need their Concentration on something else.

  • @SPFLDAngler

    @SPFLDAngler

    4 жыл бұрын

    You clearly did not pay attention at all whatsoever... he said they have tubes that they travel through while levitating. Meaning they don't need to walk anywhere in their own place. They just let the tube bring them to another area making walking unnecessary. They pretty much only need their legs to travel like a couple meters at most when and only when they need to go to the next tube.

  • @evannibbe9375

    @evannibbe9375

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ursine Maximus The tubes would allow them to rise up the the top and use their hands/claws to pull themselves along the ceiling into the other room.

  • @coolgreenbug7551

    @coolgreenbug7551

    3 жыл бұрын

    A weakness that must be corrected

  • @Mare_Man
    @Mare_Man5 жыл бұрын

    Shrek Elves I'm ded

  • @supportyourself3861

    @supportyourself3861

    5 жыл бұрын

    So am I

  • @janelantestaverde2018

    @janelantestaverde2018

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@supportyourself3861 "Shrelves" They want you out of their bloodline.

  • @TheRealMycanthrope
    @TheRealMycanthrope5 жыл бұрын

    "Rancid jar of meat and thoughts." Outstanding.

  • @Derek-kj9mt
    @Derek-kj9mt5 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Gith and the Communist Manifesto bit slayed me. 😂😂😂

  • @sephikong8323

    @sephikong8323

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's better than to get flayed

  • @tomasthepolishtrain5562
    @tomasthepolishtrain55625 жыл бұрын

    Love this video, mind flayers are some of my favorite monsters in DnD ( basically beholders pls)

  • @Winter_RainVT
    @Winter_RainVT5 жыл бұрын

    Eating while watching this awesome informative interesting video was a mistake.

  • @supportyourself3861

    @supportyourself3861

    5 жыл бұрын

    « *puke* »

  • @alexhayden507

    @alexhayden507

    5 жыл бұрын

    Big ol bowl of lukewarm ramen, delicious

  • @dylancampbell6140
    @dylancampbell61405 жыл бұрын

    Dude, keep it up. I’ve been playing dnd forever and hardly does someone create such entertaining content as well as educational. You rock, never stop lmao

  • @dylank2428
    @dylank24285 жыл бұрын

    If you go down to a Mind Flayer, you instantly die. That's something a friend's campaign learned the hard way. #RIPAungilTheMindFlayed

  • @supportyourself3861

    @supportyourself3861

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe not entirely, cause in Volo's Guide to Monsters it is said that mind flayers can retain some of the memories from their past lives but yeah. This is no longer your character. ("How to turn somebody into an asshole" guide XD)

  • @RequiemPoete

    @RequiemPoete

    5 жыл бұрын

    Many Mindflayer retain quirks from their hosts, like humming a tune or tapping fingers on the table when annoyed. This is of course VERY frowned on Illithid society and Mindflayers are careful not to display these... crass holdovers less they be observed as defective in some way.

  • @RequiemPoete

    @RequiemPoete

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also... Occasionally the outer appearence doesn't mutate, so it's an Illithid mind and digestive system but still looking like a *race*. And there's a potion that allows the host to retain control if they drink it before being inseminated.

  • @diablopro3438

    @diablopro3438

    5 жыл бұрын

    My gm is running Waterdeep, and uh, one of the Pcs killed a mindflayer with a carrot.

  • @redmanish

    @redmanish

    5 жыл бұрын

    I read this as “go down on a Mind Flayer” and honestly I imagine it’d end the same way.

  • @josch5071
    @josch50715 жыл бұрын

    I am now never going to be able to refer to Psionics as anything other than The Big Think, so thank you for that.

  • @nevermore7285
    @nevermore72855 жыл бұрын

    And apparently, a big thing in the new Baldur’s Gate game

  • @Stoic558

    @Stoic558

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @thomasallen9974
    @thomasallen99744 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that titanic brain worm is literally the most feared thing Mind Flayers can think of. In fact they are so dangerous the moment a tadpole is even slightly too mature Illithids immediately desend upon it to kill it. So the only real reason a titanic brain worm pops in to existence is because someone interrupted them during the murder session. So... yeah its adventurers who typically cause them to exist.

  • @nekosparkclaw2833

    @nekosparkclaw2833

    Жыл бұрын

    I love the reasons why it's so scary to em, too. They despise this giant worm because it's as hungry as they are, as psychically strong as the elder brain, but CANNOT be tracked, reasoned with, or subdued. Odds are that it will find a colony, and then eat it alive- so it's not an unfounded fear.

  • @MarkD5678

    @MarkD5678

    5 ай бұрын

    @@nekosparkclaw2833 the irony is that neothilids are the illithids' natural adult stage without being forced into symbiosis with a host body.

  • @whydotheyletyouhavesuchalo9144
    @whydotheyletyouhavesuchalo91445 жыл бұрын

    Everyone: Zombies eat brains!!! Everyone who knows d&d: no, gross squid thingies do.

  • @sanddry738

    @sanddry738

    5 жыл бұрын

    Also D&D zombies don’t seem to be contagious/spread through infection. Good for your average citizen who already has to deal with everything else

  • @whydotheyletyouhavesuchalo9144

    @whydotheyletyouhavesuchalo9144

    5 жыл бұрын

    sanddry so basically mind flayers are zombies wizards of the coast just decided that they worshipped giant brains and had squid faces

  • @briarrosegael2015

    @briarrosegael2015

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sanddry738 Well, that's usually because "zombies" created through necromancy aren't like Romero zombies.... meaning I could raise thousands of "zombies" but their bite wouldn't carry infection

  • @Siegberg91

    @Siegberg91

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@briarrosegael2015 in fantansy its ghouls which are infectious they are also more intiligent then Zombies

  • @Konpekikaminari

    @Konpekikaminari

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Siegberg91 and according to one line in a Forgotten realms book, Ghouls eat bone marrow, not brains

  • @a.b.5688
    @a.b.56887 ай бұрын

    I came back to watch this video years later, after playing a bunch of BG3. This video pointing out how mind flayer society is inherently self-destructive and dumb has made me smirk a lot in BG3

  • @True_Canadian
    @True_Canadian5 жыл бұрын

    Mind flayers, AKA If cthulhu and hermaeus mora Had a baby

  • @costo24
    @costo245 жыл бұрын

    1 month later we get Baldur's Gate and the Mind Flayers as antagonists, coincidence? I don't think so!! Awesome work!!

  • @spiritofchaos58
    @spiritofchaos585 жыл бұрын

    *war flashbacks to Critical Role season 1 episode 23* *Cries* I miss him....

  • @InquisitorThomas

    @InquisitorThomas

    5 жыл бұрын

    CLAROTA WHY?! ;~;7

  • @TheSchnieder6

    @TheSchnieder6

    5 жыл бұрын

    He was a good boy. Until he wasn't...

  • @snappedsquire8479

    @snappedsquire8479

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@TheSchnieder6 and then he got wrecked

  • @reverie5760

    @reverie5760

    5 жыл бұрын

    episode 13?

  • @RetentiveCloud
    @RetentiveCloud5 жыл бұрын

    Evil campaign idea: Everyone is a mind flayer but can only class as a mystic.

  • @yanderenejoyer

    @yanderenejoyer

    5 жыл бұрын

    Who in the world is enough of a masoquist to DM that?

  • @cybermage99

    @cybermage99

    5 жыл бұрын

    As a DM for a mystic right now. I can tell you that while that sounds amazing the DM would hate life by the end of every session

  • @zappablegiraffe2117
    @zappablegiraffe21174 жыл бұрын

    I'm fairly sure Gith was actually female. Also, she didn't lead it by herself, Zerthimon also played a huge role, which is why Githzerai and Githyanki are different, after Gith and Zerthimon had a huge disagreement

  • @udasai

    @udasai

    5 ай бұрын

    We learn this in Planescape: Torment...however, it should be noted that (spoilers) the protagonist ("Adan", heh, if you know you know) actually wrote the Unbroken Circle of Zerthimon (the source of this story) in order to trick the githzerai Dakkon to follow him. It might just be fabrication. Canon to me, though.

  • @onebilliontacos3405
    @onebilliontacos34052 жыл бұрын

    My god I just realized that you are like the Zefrank of Dnd and also that I NEED a Zefrank video on Ilithids. That baby thunder dome part was just way too good.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
    @justsomejerseydevilwithint46063 жыл бұрын

    6:27 I have a theory as to why that's considered embarrassing, one that also explains why no aboleth remembers the mind flayer empire, and why they claim to be evolved aboleths, even though that's a few steps down. So you know how aboleths regenerate after bodily destruction, can enthrall mortals, collect memories endlessly, and have photographic, inter-generational memory, all because of their massive brains? And you know how they want to overthrow the gods? And you know how Gods like dealing out karmic, ironic punishments to those who wronged them? My theory goes that one day, the aboleths enacted their master plan, but failed to everthrow the gods. Because they just respawn around the brains, the gods couldn't destroy them, so they cursed them; the gods separated the aboleths' minds and bodies permanently, making the mind controlling eel part just worms in a brine pool and the ever-memoried eternal brain part into the elder brains. Separate from their form, the elder brains can die, and separated from their brains, the worms have to infect and enslave another being, eating brains to survive, or be fated to be just a neolithid, a nonsentient beast that is the only thing left of the abolethic majesty they once held, and is as such, embarrasing to the nth degree. Then the gods shoved them out into the far realm, where they came back earlier in the timeline, and possibly made an empire that was wiped from existence by the Shrek Elves.

  • @minnion2871
    @minnion28714 жыл бұрын

    Plot twist, the future that gave rise to the domination of the universe was the result of a Neolithid escaping and finding a host large enough to burrow into, something.... like a kraken.....

  • @CrysResan
    @CrysResan5 жыл бұрын

    I just realized that the things in Parasyte: The Maxim are basically mind flayers.

  • @nathanmceneny2633
    @nathanmceneny26333 жыл бұрын

    Just started a campaign as a mindflayer warlock, shits lit.

  • @grizzlybear2750
    @grizzlybear27504 жыл бұрын

    Mind Flayer in Stranger Things: OH SHIT!!! Mind Flayer in DnD: Haha magic go voosh

  • @fakechemicals
    @fakechemicals5 жыл бұрын

    This is, unquestionably, your best work to date.

  • @XsigmaZ
    @XsigmaZ5 жыл бұрын

    this was great.. ive been looking for videos like this!

  • @racekitty
    @racekitty5 жыл бұрын

    Something else you should know about mind flayer is that some times the transformation doesn't completely work sometimes the transformation only works on the inside make the mind flayer look like the host race but keep psionic powers and need for brains they often serve as spies on the other hand some keep the mind and soul of the host but giving the host the appearance of a mind flayer and psionic power these are known as the adversary and are the greatest fear the mind flayers.

  • @supportyourself3861

    @supportyourself3861

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ooh, those are fun. XD

  • @cartooncritique6625

    @cartooncritique6625

    Жыл бұрын

    The latter sounds like an excellent premise for a story...I'm just imagining the Mind-Flayer equivalent to Alucard or Blade.

  • @ARCHANONN5000
    @ARCHANONN50005 жыл бұрын

    I love these basically videos!

  • @KaedeLanyo
    @KaedeLanyo5 жыл бұрын

    *_THANK YOU_* , for giving the big 3 their own spotlights. They really do deserve it.

  • @idle_speculation
    @idle_speculation11 ай бұрын

    Idea: a large colony of mind flayers which farm humanoids for food. They trade with myconids to get their spores so that their livestock can be put into a Matrix-like simulation to flavor them with life experiences.

  • @nadia-bg5uy
    @nadia-bg5uy4 жыл бұрын

    this is *so* easy to understand AND it’s entertaining. thank you!

  • @Fallenmonkd20
    @Fallenmonkd205 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoy these videos! You dona good job of keeping em funny and entertaining

  • @Gulpy3
    @Gulpy311 ай бұрын

    I think anyone playing BG3 should watch your entire channel in preparation. So much wonderful lore that would make the game even more amazing then it's going to be.

  • @minivergur
    @minivergur5 жыл бұрын

    Seize the means of psionics!

  • @residentrump3271
    @residentrump327110 ай бұрын

    *NEVER* ask a mind flayer "would you like some head"? It will *NOT* go well....

  • @jaimyyelvingtonmusic
    @jaimyyelvingtonmusic5 жыл бұрын

    I just discovered your channel and I love it. Excellent work!

  • @samhilliard3326
    @samhilliard33265 жыл бұрын

    illithids are so smart they managed tog et smash bros on the original xbox

  • @MatthewCampbell765

    @MatthewCampbell765

    4 жыл бұрын

    My brother once replaced a broken NES's computers with a Raspberry Pi (with the controller ports replaced with USB) and then had it emulate a playstation. This resulted in him playing Spyro with an Xbox controller on his NES.

  • @cometsmith
    @cometsmith5 жыл бұрын

    so it's 3 squids in a cosmic super-intelligent trench coat?

  • @moistcookie4436
    @moistcookie44364 жыл бұрын

    Youre explanation is everything to me

  • @Tar0B0I
    @Tar0B0I5 жыл бұрын

    Basically is such a good series, keep it up

  • @stodorovic
    @stodorovic5 жыл бұрын

    I thoroughly enjoyed this and I’m sad it ended so quickly :(

  • @RavenWolffe77
    @RavenWolffe775 жыл бұрын

    “Just waiting to be shoved into someone’s ear” Well somebody read Animorphs

  • @papafredu3570
    @papafredu35705 жыл бұрын

    I subscribed for the series of "basically" videos thank you for making them

  • @jamescanjuggle
    @jamescanjuggle5 жыл бұрын

    Man I gotta tell ya I ~Basically~ love this series

  • @fonandoozmando5961
    @fonandoozmando59615 жыл бұрын

    You forgot to add that the mind flayers DO NOT have an history, because they're not from the past, but the future

  • @duncanallan6259

    @duncanallan6259

    5 жыл бұрын

    I was looking for this comment. This is why the Illithid are the only things in all of creation that the Aboleths fear. They can’t remember their beginning, and the Aboleths can remember everything since the dawn of the universe.

  • @RequiemPoete

    @RequiemPoete

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well they do have a past. It's just that the heroes timeline hasn't caught up to it yet.

  • @jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930

    @jonathanjoestarwithpluck4930

    5 жыл бұрын

    Duncan Allan but isn’t that just because they come from the far realm and as such didn’t evolve on the prime material plane? That’s why the Aboleths know nothing about them, because they’re completely alien to this realm. Or at least I thought that was the explanation.

  • @bromora989

    @bromora989

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jonathan Joestar with Pluck the Aboleths know the history about all the realms I believe, so that’s why it’s assumed the mindflayers are from the future.

  • @zashgekido5616

    @zashgekido5616

    5 жыл бұрын

    That.. is not how the past/future works.

  • @comfortzone2282
    @comfortzone22825 жыл бұрын

    Man im dissapointed you didn't go into more detail with the fat tadpoles and beholder experiments, those are fun

  • @supportyourself3861

    @supportyourself3861

    5 жыл бұрын

    "Fat tadpoles" are freakin terrifying 😨 Imagine: Your party casually walking through the underdark and suddenly you see a group of mind flayers scared shitless, not even caring that they're charging towards you. "What the fu-" and then a gargantuan worm emerges from behind a wall and one of those guys gets grabbed and instantly swallowed (like "SLURP" and he's gone). The rest simply plain shifts away. You're facing a big, fat asshole that is constantly hungry, has 3 intelligence, psionic powers (feeblemind for instance), acidic barf and sth like 375 hp, deals a tone of damage, swallows every person it attacks on a failed strength saving throw (dealing 10d6 acid dmg). Roll initiative XD

  • @disconnectedbraixen3842
    @disconnectedbraixen38425 ай бұрын

    Now there’s a game that won GOTY that is mainly about mindflayers

  • @utuberaptor
    @utuberaptor4 жыл бұрын

    At least the Yeerks' evolutionary history had the common sense to not change their host's physiology so they could expand in secret

  • @OrderedChaos010
    @OrderedChaos0105 жыл бұрын

    The big brain am winning again. I am the greetest! Now I am leaving for no Raisin!

  • @thesilvermario99
    @thesilvermario995 жыл бұрын

    Bruh i want some darude sandstorm binural beats

  • @burningbronze7555

    @burningbronze7555

    5 жыл бұрын

    We die or take levels in mystic It will be a great party.

  • @TheWeekendGeek
    @TheWeekendGeek5 жыл бұрын

    This was really well narrated, thanks for this

  • @theAnalogManifesto
    @theAnalogManifesto3 жыл бұрын

    Bless this channel.

  • @Scortch-lo3xy
    @Scortch-lo3xy5 жыл бұрын

    2:23 wow that spelling gave me an aneurysm

  • @BrickChick

    @BrickChick

    5 жыл бұрын

    How is it properly spelled?

  • @someguy9052

    @someguy9052

    5 жыл бұрын

    Fallen Graceful Horror gith

  • @brolveth6665
    @brolveth66655 жыл бұрын

    Mind flayers, big tentacle head who is constantly going to his own destruction. You can't find anything more accurate that this video

  • @supportyourself3861
    @supportyourself38615 жыл бұрын

    Damn, I'm early today. And you just made my morning better than it already was 😆

  • @cobaltblues2121
    @cobaltblues21214 жыл бұрын

    Love your humorous style

  • @darthxerxes5468
    @darthxerxes54685 жыл бұрын

    I clicked because of Stranger Things and I stayed because this is really interesting

  • @thesparrow1116
    @thesparrow11165 жыл бұрын

    Runesmith: Mindflayer biology makes no sense Baldur's Gate 3: Hold my beer

  • @josephjones2513
    @josephjones25133 жыл бұрын

    Dude quick and simple information great work

  • @dovakiin4257
    @dovakiin42575 жыл бұрын

    Runsmith do litches! Those are a staple in storys and can leave your party with memories that they will have forever! the mighty Asererak even mentioned with my group after a 2 years ago when we played tomb of annihalation still haunts them to this day! Also great video!

  • @johnjustjohn5866

    @johnjustjohn5866

    5 жыл бұрын

    *liches

  • @Xenos_hive
    @Xenos_hive5 жыл бұрын

    Some people wonder why mindflayers r evil then u remember colonialism where your whole reality is the colony

  • @RequiemPoete

    @RequiemPoete

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really how can a Mindflayer NOT be evil. They are essentially required to prey on sentient life forms. Any Mindflayer with empathy for it's prey would be quickly weeded out due to their conscious causing them to hesitate until only the most ruthless and racist amongst them survive. These lovecraftian Nazis would band together and their society would only reinforce these traits. Thus perpetuating the cycle of breeding ruthless racists that are biologically incapable of empathy, which in turn further embraces a society that puts illithiads on top as superior to all other sentient 'cattle'.

  • @rhuali-6006

    @rhuali-6006

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@@RequiemPoete Hold one down and shove a Helm of Opposite Alignment on it. 🙃 More seriously though, I actually played a non-evil illithid once, and yeah, it took a hell of a lot of mental and emotional trauma- plus a Ring of Sustenance- for it to be able to even get to that point.

  • @Xenos_hive

    @Xenos_hive

    5 жыл бұрын

    Deathcoldan why are you commenting here and you can bring commodities and things to others without taking over their civilizations expanding killing and such you also can expand without atrocities

  • @Xenos_hive

    @Xenos_hive

    5 жыл бұрын

    Deathcoldan also get the hell out of this comment fucking asshole

  • @JasperCoen
    @JasperCoen5 жыл бұрын

    Now that was epic

  • @krimb5053
    @krimb50535 жыл бұрын

    You, sir, are superb, never stop!

  • @anthonywarinner2259
    @anthonywarinner22595 жыл бұрын

    highkey the best dnd lore channel on youtube

  • @cocomunga
    @cocomunga4 жыл бұрын

    Mind Flayers and Ulitharids are a pain in the ass in Baldur’s Gate 2. Their attacks are super cheap, and transforming into one can kill anything in no time. The only way I ever really deal with them is just summoning tons of things to obstruct them, and pelt them with as many ranged attacks as I can.

  • @justinchalifoux4424
    @justinchalifoux44244 жыл бұрын

    Coming here to know just what the hell was going on during the opening of Baldurs Gate 3

  • @cthulhufhtagn2483
    @cthulhufhtagn24834 жыл бұрын

    I needed to watch this before I ran my mind flayer campaign.

  • @TieragonTenorman
    @TieragonTenorman3 жыл бұрын

    EXCELLENT THANK YOU MISTER RUNESMITH! I AM VERY HAPPY MAN

  • @princepalette2083
    @princepalette20835 жыл бұрын

    Question, Runesmith? Do you mind doing basically Star Spawn? Normally I wouldn’t ask, but I just summoned a star spawn into my dnd campaign. And uh, now they are worshiping me as a god , what do I even do here! How do I fix this situation? As, I have no clue about the elder evils, and what a prophet is... And I might have also...uh, beat out a insane cult from summoning them.

  • @No-wj4nu

    @No-wj4nu

    5 жыл бұрын

    arnt star spawn the childern of cathulu

  • @princepalette2083

    @princepalette2083

    5 жыл бұрын

    daniel yohe Apparently something like that? I have no clue tbh, but I summoned one, and I might have called something called a elder evil to attack the world? Soooo, I might be something called a prophet? I have no clue what that is.

  • @No-wj4nu

    @No-wj4nu

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@princepalette2083 a prophet is either someone who knows the future or an important religious figure. congratulations your now the Jesus of an elder god

  • @princepalette2083

    @princepalette2083

    5 жыл бұрын

    daniel yohe OH, GREAT! Perfect, welp. Will I live? XD

  • @No-wj4nu

    @No-wj4nu

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@princepalette2083 it depends are you a warlock? if so who is your pact with?

  • @FlourEater
    @FlourEater5 жыл бұрын

    yes, I hated / loved these ever since BG 2 !

  • @jazz8000
    @jazz80005 жыл бұрын

    This series are great

  • @kubapaluszak630
    @kubapaluszak6303 жыл бұрын

    I know this wideo is almost 2 years on yt while i'm writing it, but I'll write it anyway. You inspierd me! I've got idea how I can push my campaign in some nasty direction. Thanks to your storytelling :P Great job dude!

  • @TheDreamTwist
    @TheDreamTwist5 жыл бұрын

    Ahh mind flayers my 2nd most hate creatures next to wasps

  • @Simone-ek9hb
    @Simone-ek9hb5 жыл бұрын

    Lol I was just reading the book where Drizzt meets the Mind Flayers

  • @binnieb173
    @binnieb1734 жыл бұрын

    these are amazing

  • @caydenmaletsky3453
    @caydenmaletsky34536 ай бұрын

    They should make a video game about them

  • @ancientbuns6770
    @ancientbuns67705 жыл бұрын

    Love me some HP lovecraft

  • @agsilverradio2225
    @agsilverradio22255 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact Mineflayers are time travelers from the future.

  • @Perial51

    @Perial51

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dineflayers are cooks from the future.

  • @westknight8546
    @westknight85464 жыл бұрын

    I love how you explain these things

  • @angelic8632002
    @angelic86320025 жыл бұрын

    Gave me a good chuckle. Thanks :)

  • @pancake7117
    @pancake71175 жыл бұрын

    4:01 how are they playing Smash Bros with Xbox controllers?

  • @michaelanderson2166

    @michaelanderson2166

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alien psion tech.

  • @pancake7117

    @pancake7117

    5 жыл бұрын

    yeah makes sense

  • @Floofv

    @Floofv

    5 жыл бұрын

    Emulators

  • @NightFlame-eb2cn

    @NightFlame-eb2cn

    5 жыл бұрын

    They are 20 years advanced I'm the gaming community

  • @NovelPilot01
    @NovelPilot015 жыл бұрын

    The acronym for multiversally evil and naughty in every sense is Meanies

  • @DinkyKnag
    @DinkyKnag5 ай бұрын

    My favorite bit of lore about Mind Flayers is that they were specifically designed by their god, Ilsensine, to be as unable to peacefully coexist with other sapient life as possible, just to piss off every possible god he could.

  • @RequiemPoete
    @RequiemPoete5 жыл бұрын

    I love accurate yet tongue in cheek commentary. Lol!

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