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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 3100292" data-attributes="member: 4910">They can detect your thoughts at will and are staggeringly intelligent.&nbsp; Make no mistake, there is no intimate relationship.&nbsp; In no way do they care even in the slightest about the false relationship they're nurturing with their thrall. But they -do- know what the thrall needs to hear and feel in order for it to bend, and then break, and then serve.&nbsp; So they lie.&nbsp; They are alien, and dispassionate, and superior.&nbsp; Distant and domineering.&nbsp; Just because they know what the tool requires in order for it to function doesn't reduce that even slightly.As for the issue of induction, there are probably illithids whose job that is, to batch-process servants when they're first brought in.&nbsp; Starve them into submission then turn on the juice when they're weak, one by one, right down the line.&nbsp; And that's not even getting into the issue of thralls they breed themselves.&nbsp; Easiest solution, really.&nbsp; Crossbreed your already broken slaves and raise the offspring in an environment where unswerving loyalty comes factory standard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 3100292, member: 4910"] They can detect your thoughts at will and are staggeringly intelligent. Make no mistake, there is no intimate relationship. In no way do they care even in the slightest about the false relationship they're nurturing with their thrall. But they -do- know what the thrall needs to hear and feel in order for it to bend, and then break, and then serve. So they [i]lie[/i]. They are alien, and dispassionate, and superior. Distant and domineering. Just because they know what the tool requires in order for it to function doesn't reduce that even slightly. As for the issue of induction, there are probably illithids whose job that is, to batch-process servants when they're first brought in. Starve them into submission then turn on the juice when they're weak, one by one, right down the line. And that's not even getting into the issue of thralls they breed themselves. Easiest solution, really. Crossbreed your already broken slaves and raise the offspring in an environment where unswerving loyalty comes factory standard. [/QUOTE]

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