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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4593298" data-attributes="member: 64209">Inspired by you allIn my campaign I'm doing the following: Aboleth and illithid tadpoles are the same thing.  One type of development is that the tadpoles swim away: as parts of the elder brain, they remember everything. They grow to large illithid tadpoles, then neothelids, then aboleth. Another type of development is that they are implanted. The result is a creature more able to find knowledge and then return it to the brain. These are viewed as "impure" and are sort of "control groups" or "blind trials". Illithid are sent to the world not knowing so that the elder brains can learn new information unbiased and then reintegrate it. The real trick of this is that all elder brains are a single brain...apparently disconnected by our understanding of space and time...but in reality a single gargantuan entity. The aboleth and illithid are like cells or organs to it. Think bloodcells...travelling around, finding problems, eating them, carrying nutrients to the brain, etc. The unknown enemy? Death from old age. This entity is a living creature, and as such is not immortal...very old, but not immortal. Hence, it "relives" new lives by sending components of itself back in time to learn more and have new experiences. Each time they are to discover a cure for death...but the fountain of youth for a creature that spans galaxies is complicated indeed.   This fits with another idea I had about the beholders actually being the eyes of Cyclopses from the far realm. In the far realm, they are whole, but in our world, only their eyes are seen. Perhaps, since the far realm has geometric impossibilities as well as temporal ones, all these abberations ARE one single creature and ARE the far realm. Only bits of it can reach through to our world but the far realm is the creature: Whole and terrific.</blockquote>

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