Originally Posted by xyamuchax
Originally Posted by Llev
Im not familiar with all mind flayer lore/books... has there been ones not controlled by elder brains?

Mind Flayers who can use magic are usually rare and are shunned by their societies as they can use their magic to resist the Elder Brains.

"Mind flayers considered arcane magic an abomination. They viewed it as an inferior and corrupt form of psionic power that should disappear from the universe once the illithids regained control of it. It was speculated that this hatred was related to the role of magic in the gith rebellion.[2]

Arcane magic was especially sought out by renegade illithids looking for ways to shield themselves from the elder brain's influence.[2] Although most mind flayer arcanists were wizards, a few were also born with the gift of sorcery. Because a mind flayer sorcerer was naturally more intelligent than other mind flayers, it was better able to resist psionics. For the most part, an illithid with the gift of sorcery would use defensive spells such as greater invisibility and resist energy, as well as spells to further hinder enemies, such as ray of exhaustion and touch of idiocy.[4] "
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_flayer
There's a pattern in forgotten realms worldbuilding, "all x are like this" but in exceptionally rare cases forget everything we've told you about how everything works. They philosophically don't believe in saying you, the player, can't do something, that's cool, but there's a problem when all these exceptions to the rule are always in games set there even without it being the players choice.

Last edited by Sozz; 26/11/20 11:13 PM.
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