Harmless modified Tadpoles to facilitate more deals "hello there, I am Raphael and I can remove that thing for a small price" He could not benefit from people actually turning but from lots of scared souls
That's a good point. I'm guessing there are a lot of different factions here.
It seems that the mindflayers of Ryxyg are involved in the game from the interview I linked above. And they're actually sorta good guys, preventing a fire giant invasion of the surface and not activating taking slaves. They might actually be the ones from the ship?
