Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Acceptable & Unacceptable Hosts for Ceremorphosis

We're explicitly told that our tadpoles are unique multiple times. All the normal rules of ceremorphosis are pretty much out the window. At the very start of the game we see a woman get transformed fully into a mind flayer with the pull of a lever, something Lae'zel notes as new and terrifying technology the Illithids shouldn't have.

Shoot, we don't even know for sure that ceremorphosis is even the end-goal of these tadpoles. They're connected to The Absolute which seems to be some sort of take over the world through manipulation scheme operating on a larger scale than simple reproduction.

We're dealing with unprecedented magic. Something the Mind Flayers have never attempted before with goals that aren't immediately obvious. There's no reason to out-of-hand discard the idea of a playable race based on old lore because this is new lore following its own, new rules.

Beyond that, how the heck would you justify them implanting a dang goblin with a tadpole but draw a hard line at kobolds? Because kobolds are skinnier? Seems like a pretty massive stretch without even knowing what these tadpoles are meant to do.