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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3513914" data-attributes="member: 41584">Neat idea.  I particularly like the idea of the Elder Brains and the Aboleth being connected in some way.  Given the differences between them, it would almost seem like some Elder Brains 'fled' the future Illithid Imperium to seed themselves at the dawn of time.In the 'present day,' the Illithids themselves have been created as an intermediary form, allowing the originally non-humanoid (and primarily sessile) species to interact with humanoid life more readily.  The Aboleth was a different route towards the same utility, able to move under their own power, unlike the Elder Brains, but they had to give up a certain amount of their psionic specialization to achieve these purely physical adaptations, that they knew that they would need back at the dawn of time.The Aboleth and the Illithids may or may not recognize each other as two different possibilities, and may even consider each other hated rivals, each attempting to exterminate the other and make their own offshoot the dominant and solitary 'true' future.  Or, only one of them might know 'the truth,' and regard the other as an unwitting 'intermediary phase.'In the case of the Illithids, they might regard the Aboleth as a tool whose time is long past, and no longer of any consequence, treating with them with barely concealed contempt, thinking them barbaric anachronisms, adapted to a primordial world that no longer exists.In the case of the Aboleth, they might be waiting patiently, convinced that they have already achieved the pinnacle of evolution, and that the humanoid 'Mind Flayers' are nothing more than a temporary convenience, to be 'phased out' with all other humanoid life, in the course of ages.  To the Aboleth, the Illithids are nothing more than eggshells, to be inevitably broken when they birth the new age.</blockquote>

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