Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Illithid Powers!!

That's not how elder brains work at all. The way elder brains are created is more complicated. On average between 1 and 4% of successful ceremorphosis transformations become Ulitharids, they are essentially mind flayers that are about 1 foot taller, smarter, and have 6 tentacles vs the 4 of the usual mind flayer. Ulitharids then go on to live in a mind flayer colony in service to an elder brain. After a time one of the ulitharids can choose to take part of the colony away with him and set up a different colony elsewhere and at that point the Ulitharid extracts his own brain from his body and places it in a brine pool and from there the rest of the new colony takes care to feed the new elder brain so it can grow. But this is a rare occurrence. Most Ulitharids do not form new colonies or become elder brains.

Now in a highly unusual circumstance like this where a large amount of mind flayers came into existence without an elder brain to lead them, they would presumably be led by the Ulitharids among them and some of those Ulitharids would in time go on to become elder brains but that would take time it would not happen overnight and in the chaos the new Ulitharids would also not have necessary psionic black metal staves necessary for the process of extracting their brains, and the brine pools would need to be set up, etc.

Someone's been reading the Illithiad.

Nah.... the first or second trailer infection scene, the decision to embody the tadpole as a your sexy dream companion, the choice of VA casting, the plethora of other non-consensual d/s topic matter in the game etc... the body horror thematic is clearly treated as a fetish in the storyline. Which, like I've said before, would be fine, if it wasn't so badly/invasively implemented into the game.

Given that chapter 1 is only 25% of the full game, I suppose I could agree with you that this... particular content only makes up about 10% of the game, and could be ignored, if they'd given us the option to remove the tadpole from the pc/npc characters in the first chapter, and if the pivotal choices in the main plot in the future chapters doesn't revolve around whether or not you further(knowingly or unwittingly) the goals of the absolute or not. But I doubt they're going to actually give people not interested in this kind of content enough leeway to ignore their prized plot centerpiece. Sadly simply pretending its not there(the hallmark of a true fan, I guess) is not a viable RP option for me.

In regards to my supposedly weird and senseless commenting... I think the most weird&senseless thing I've done here is trying to critique the game in a forum, which mostly seems to treat pointing even minor failings of this game as a personal affront to the fanbase and is participating in the conversations about the game predominantly with a 'love it or leave it' -mentality.