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** Illithids are actually said to have lamprey-like mouths ([http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Boca_de_lamprea.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG like this]). Which are nonetheless hidden by the four tentacles on their octopus-like head.
** Illithids are actually said to have lamprey-like mouths ([http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Boca_de_lamprea.1_-_Aquarium_Finisterrae.JPG like this]). Which are nonetheless hidden by the four tentacles on their octopus-like head.
** This troper always assumed they had a cephalopod-style beak ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140915130034/http://www.coralreefphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Caribbean-Squid-Beak-457x303.jpg example from a squid]) which would be hidden in a 'mouth', in turn hidden by the tentacles. That lamprey mouth picture is much more appropriate as [[Nightmare Fuel]] though.
** This troper always assumed they had a cephalopod-style beak ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140915130034/http://www.coralreefphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Caribbean-Squid-Beak-457x303.jpg example from a squid]) which would be hidden in a 'mouth', in turn hidden by the tentacles. That lamprey mouth picture is much more appropriate as [[Nightmare Fuel]] though.
** Elsewhere in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', Yurtrus, [[The Grim Reaper|the orcish god of death and disease]], has no mouth and never communicates. Not even with other gods.



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