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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Warlock" data-source="post: 1735415" data-attributes="member: 21215">Neh-thalgu - otherwise known as a Brain Eater - they have a disgusting, huge updated version in the Epic book, but I remember the first appearance in the Expert module, Castle Amber - a strange cross between an spongy arachnid/lobster body, multi-eyed eel head with a tentacle fringe and a lamprey like mouth. It was enormously intelligent, and it came from it's dimension in search of spell power - by extracting brains - not for taste and preference like a mind flayer - but as a magical capacitor. It would crack open a helpless person's skull and swallow the brain and all its fluids whole - but instead of digesting it - it would be ferried to an empty pimple like sac on it's neck - there the brain, its fluids and all it's memories and knowledge would be stored for the Thalgu to access - and in the event it acquired a mage's brain, it could revitalize it daily, and unleash one or more spells from the brain. And those sacs were translucent - so you could see the extra brains just under it's slimy skin - and even see them arrive shortly after ingestion. And then, the most disturbing thought is - do the brains still have the thoughts of the original owner running in them - do they realize they've been taken from their own bodies - does the thalgu taunt them and torture them in their own mind ...yikes.In my mind, that puts the old Illithids to shame....That would freak me out...The One Warlock</blockquote>

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