Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Mind Flayer

The Illithid, alien parasite beings who ruled the cosmos long ago, mortal enemy of all intelligent life, aberrations born of the nightmarish Far Realm. 00:00 Time Stamps 1:18 Meta Origin 1:50 Publication History 4:05 Ecology 4:34 Tadpole Stage 5:26 Ceremorphosis 6:40 Host Races 7:21 Adult Size 8:18 Senses and Sun Resentment 10:08 Mucus Properties 10:24 Diet and Digestion 11:35 Variant Intellect Devourer 11:45 Joining the Elder Brain 12:45 Colony Communication 13:12 Elder Brain Pt 2 14:25 Brain Golem 14:43 Ulitharid 15:44 Origin 20:46 Neolithid 22:00 Fun Fact: Scent 22:20 Illithid Roper 22:54 Vampiric Illithid (Feral, not charming) 23:30 Arcane Illithids 23:52 Alhoons 24:52 Mind Witness 25:56 Cranium Rats 26:15 Illithosites 26:42 humanoid cattle 28:03 Illithidae: animals with convergent evolution 28:50 Slime Chuul (ceremorph) 29:11 Mosgricken (Deep Gnome ceremorph) 30:25 Ceremorph Shock Troops (lizardfolk) 31:05 Oryndoll 31:40 Architecture & Tech 32:27 Language 32:58 City of Oryndoll 33:25 Founding of Oryndoll