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*** In late 3.5 edition splatbooks and the 4th Edition rules, Mind Flayers are once again from the "Far Realm" - beyond the borders of the universe. This certainty may be only because there haven't been enough years into the new edition to let their webs of deceit get fully developed yet, however. |
*** In late 3.5 edition splatbooks and the 4th Edition rules, Mind Flayers are once again from the "Far Realm" - beyond the borders of the universe. This certainty may be only because there haven't been enough years into the new edition to let their webs of deceit get fully developed yet, however. |
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*** An interesting but ultimately unrelated note on the time-traveling origin: A person can still take "Heritage" feats, special character options that indicate one's bloodline co-mingles with that of the relevant race/species (Fey Heritage, Draconic Heritage, etc) for Illithids. For most heritage feats, this implies an ancestry speckled with [[Interspecies Romance]]. However, in this case Illithid Heritage actually means you're actually one of the ''[[Tomato in the Mirror|ancestors]]'' of the Illithid bloodlines. Of course, runaway result of their experiments are also possible: mind flayers often try to make thralls more useful and/or tasty without making them too dangerous, and as one could expect, occasionally fail on the last part (e.g. long after Gith this happened with dwarven Clan Duergar in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'') or simply lose "cattle" during wars with someone else (e.g. Oortlings in ''[[Spelljammer]]''). |
*** An interesting but ultimately unrelated note on the time-traveling origin: A person can still take "Heritage" feats, special character options that indicate one's bloodline co-mingles with that of the relevant race/species (Fey Heritage, Draconic Heritage, etc) for Illithids. For most heritage feats, this implies an ancestry speckled with [[Interspecies Romance]]. However, in this case Illithid Heritage actually means you're actually one of the ''[[Tomato in the Mirror|ancestors]]'' of the Illithid bloodlines. Of course, runaway result of their experiments are also possible: mind flayers often try to make thralls more useful and/or tasty without making them too dangerous, and as one could expect, occasionally fail on the last part (e.g. long after Gith this happened with dwarven Clan Duergar in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'') or simply lose "cattle" during wars with someone else (e.g. Oortlings in ''[[Spelljammer]]''). |
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*** For that matter, there was the slave uprising that overthrew the illithid's empire, leading to the foundations of the Gith races. Exactly how this occurred is very much a case of [[Take Our Word for It]], as it's hard to fathom how a human-like [[Slave Race]] managed to prevail against such an empire. Did they find a weakness? Did they manage to steal or construct some sort of superweapon? Was it due to a plague or natural disaster they simply took advantage of? However it happened, quite a few other races (including the modern Gith) would likely love to find out. |
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** 4e core setting [[Points of Light]] does this with pretty much all of the deities. Fairly justified; they've been around for so long that the details of their origins are wrapped up in legends. Notably, [[Satan|Asmodeus]] has been given probably the most information on his origins, most of them being at least somewhat contradictory. |
** 4e core setting [[Points of Light]] does this with pretty much all of the deities. Fairly justified; they've been around for so long that the details of their origins are wrapped up in legends. Notably, [[Satan|Asmodeus]] has been given probably the most information on his origins, most of them being at least somewhat contradictory. |
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*** And then there's the Raven Queen. Depending on what you look at, she's a [[True Neutral]] goddess of death as part of the life cycle, an evil former consort of Nerull who overthrew him to gain his title as God of the Dead and now plots to destroy the other Gods so she can gain that title that she believes is rightfully hers rather than her lesser title of Goddess of Death, or a selfish and power-hungry goddess that epitomizes the reason [[True Neutral]] is now Unaligned. |
*** And then there's the Raven Queen. Depending on what you look at, she's a [[True Neutral]] goddess of death as part of the life cycle, an evil former consort of Nerull who overthrew him to gain his title as God of the Dead and now plots to destroy the other Gods so she can gain that title that she believes is rightfully hers rather than her lesser title of Goddess of Death, or a selfish and power-hungry goddess that epitomizes the reason [[True Neutral]] is now Unaligned. |
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