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Message: <blockquote data-quote="plecostomus" data-source="post: 9561811" data-attributes="member: 7040041">BG3 patched in a lot of interesting epilogue content for[SPOILER]Mind Flayer PCs[/SPOILER] that deals with the ambiguity of Mind Flayer individuality and humanity. Example: Midway through the game, a god observes that Mind Flayers have no soul. But in one of the patched epilogues,[SPOILER]he says, "Oops, my bad."[MEDIA=youtube]OHljLbK54iw[/MEDIA][/SPOILER]Another example is the epilogue where[SPOILER]the Mind Flayer PC decides to just keep on keeping on. They're mostly fine. Their love interest complains about having to hide them under blankets when they go out in public. ...and then at the after-party, the PC must pass a check to not suddenly eat the brain of one of their companions. This isn't even a question of Mind Flayer individuality with/without an Elder Brain present. This is just your PC's ability to not eat every brain they see like it's Oreos on the floor.[/SPOILER]I don't feel that any of these outcomes are contradicted by the Abberations & Oozes video. BG3 just has more "rogue" Mind Flayers than what you should probably be putting in your games, because of the unique circumstances of its story. There's also Omeluum, whose resistance to the Elder Brain later in the game isn't fully explained, but have you considered that Omeluum is really cool and also my friend? Or more seriously, it's clear that Omeluum's way of thinking is not particularly human-like, even if it ends up being benevolent. Omeluum is just the case described in the video where a Mind Flayer becomes way too interested in cake, except instead of cake it's Underdark mushrooms.</blockquote>

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