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

I think it would be really fun if, midway through the game, your party meets a renegade Illithid/Mind Flayer that you can allow to join your party. As a renegade, he has no access to the hive mind, so doesn't have all of his powers. Could make him be a high intelligence wizard with double damage / effects with any psionic spell. Could be up to you if you trust him enough to let him join, at least one party member could have a serious issue with it. What do you all think? Up vote and reply if you want this in the game. I hearby grant Larian full rights to use this idea without anything in return.

As long as we can romance it.

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Made my day!

Illithids have a totally different mindset. They would never join a group for any reason. They might 'use' a group but that would not end well either.

Illithids don't have non-Illithid companions, they have slaves. Also, I don't think an illithid can come within 5 miles of an Elder Brain and resist sublimation into the colony.

We can put the ilithid a tadpole, seems the panacea to avoid any nuisances in any character, like vampires walking in daylight, drows not blinded by light, etcetera

Oh, wait...

Yo dawg, I heard you like Illithids. so I put an illithid in your illithid so you can illithid while you illithid.

Interesting idea

By the way:
Can Illithids infect each other?
So one of them messed up real hard and the others punish him by inserting a toadpole, his brain is eaten and he is "reborn" as somebody else.
This could be considered a bigger punishment than just torturing or killing him.

Two tadpoles infecting a single character... would the result be two conjoined illithid twins? Then maybe you could be romancing one but not the other, unless mind tricked to do so. Then the other would go mad. I mean, seems easy stuff to implement. Until you Clone them to fill your party slots. And you’re playing a gnome.

It would definitely be an interesting point of contention in the game if an Illithid were able to join the party. It likely would cause some inner party conflict especially when it comes to removing the tadpoles from the other characters (further jeopardizing the Mindflayer race), or if the renegade Illithid fell under the control of an Elder Brain once more.

Great idea! I hope something like this appears in the game.