Mindflayer Ilithid is a psychic aberration that devours brains. It appears as an illithid in purple-black robes with four facial tentacles.
| Type | Creature (aberration) |
| Spanish entry | Mindflayer Ilithid |
Nature
Illithids rule underground hives under the dominion of an Elder Brain. In Planescape they haunt Sigil and the inner planes. They share the niche of mental aberrations with the Beholder.
Relationships
- Beholder: fellow aberration; both dominate through terror and psychic power.
- The Abyss: plane linked to the aberrations of the far outside.
- Aboleth: aquatic aberration with a similar dominant psychic architecture.
- Sigil: the City of Doors, where the illithid diaspora operates in the shadows.
- Sunless Citadel: deep dungeon where creatures of this kind lurk.
- Athas: in the Dark Sun context, illithids are psychic lords of the desert.