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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 9562391" data-attributes="member: 6799257">Here, I have combined this pan shot [ATTACH=full]393866[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]393865[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]393864[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]393863[/ATTACH]already.  And a few more.None of that is really new. 3E's Book of Exalted Deeds has a staple for the "redeemed monster" archetype as a Mind Flayer lady who got imprisoned by Drow and tortured, and got saved by adventurers who healed her. This made her change her outlook on people she always considered cattle, and now she has monk character levels. Still eats brains, because she has to, but only of criminals she kills in battle. Mind Flayers I don't think would not have souls. Pretty sure every aberration does. Beholders have an afterlife, we know there are several Beholder gods where these go after they die. So do Mind Flayers, Ilsenine oddly enough has its realm in the Outlands, in the Caverns of Thought - the realm of pure neutrality. And there are other Illithid deities too.I think what they really meant by this in the video is that for most people, ceremorphosis destroys the soul of whoever the victim was, they die, and the Mind Flayer is a completely new being who just has some of the memories and perhaps personality traits of that being. It's similar with say, Slaadi. Green Slaadi can turn into the wizard or cleric who was the host body they got created from - but they are not that person. I am guessing in BG3 this is different because these are heavily modified - magically altered - tadpoles, whose aim is not to transform people into Mind Flayers but to control people for the Absolute's cult which is controlled by followers of the Dead Three. As for individuality, that is true for many Mind Flayers. Alhoons and Illithiliches, even when still alive are apart due to their spellcasting. So are Ulitharids who eventually become new Elder Brains.  And then we have individuals like the three fanatics leaders of Ilvaash's cult in Phandelver, who subjugated their own Elder Brain, so it serves them now.</blockquote>

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