Originally Posted by Surface R
We dont see when exactly he was infected but due to how its all set up, with the sudden attack on the city and taking people left and right, we can safely assume it was done shortly before ceramorphosis.

WotC let it be known in an interview that those seen in the teaser had the tadpole for 7 days, suggesting a normal transformation sequence. But the symbol of the absolute is clearly visible on a wall so that would indicate that the absolute cultists also infect people with normal tadpoles. Or the communication between Larian and WotC does not work.
I guess that the teaser really showed the events of the mindflayer interrogation. I still wonder how they got the plans for the nautiloids, they had lost the capability to build them a long time ago. I am pretty sure these things need a lot of time to grow, so the alliance between mindflayers and absolute must have been in place for a long time.

I sometimes use thought experiments. I don't necessarily believe in every idea I post for discussion on this forum