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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 6725807" data-attributes="member: 59506">I'm with Azurewraith.&nbsp; I'm thinking it's possible for them to feed on eachother, but it's likely a societal taboo.&nbsp; Probably for species survival, like Azurewraith said, but maybe there's also other considerations.Maybe a Mindflayer feeding on another Mindflayer brain can lead to some sort of Illithid <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy" target="_blank">Prion-Disease</a>; Mad-Mindflayer Disease if you will.Sure, Vampiric Mindflayers are bad - mindless, feral killers - but maybe a cannibalistic Illithid goes insane.&nbsp; Still intelligent and calculating, but utterly insane - something even worse than a Vampiric Illithid.Let's say that it makes them homicidal to their own (a hunger for more Illithid brains - maybe the only thing that keeps adverse effects of Illithid Prion Disease at bay), makes them immune to the Elder Brain's control over them, and a real threat to the Elder Brain itself.&nbsp; A calculating hunger to devour the Elder Brain and take control of the society, in order to cultivate their fellow Illithids as a continuing source of Brain-Food...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 6725807, member: 59506"] I'm with Azurewraith. I'm thinking it's possible for them to feed on eachother, but it's likely a societal taboo. Probably for species survival, like Azurewraith said, but maybe there's also other considerations. Maybe a Mindflayer feeding on another Mindflayer brain can lead to some sort of Illithid [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy"]Prion-Disease[/URL]; [I]Mad-Mindflayer Disease[/I] if you will. Sure, Vampiric Mindflayers are bad - mindless, feral killers - but maybe a cannibalistic Illithid goes insane. Still intelligent and calculating, but utterly insane - something even worse than a Vampiric Illithid. Let's say that it makes them homicidal to their own (a hunger for more Illithid brains - maybe the only thing that keeps adverse effects of [I]I[I]llithid [/I]Prion Disease a[/I]t bay), makes them immune to the Elder Brain's control over them, and a real threat to the Elder Brain itself. A calculating hunger to devour the Elder Brain and take control of the society, in order to cultivate their fellow Illithids as a continuing source of Brain-Food...;) [/QUOTE]

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