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** Mind Flayers take this a step further: in addition to requiring humanoids to be implanted by Mind Flayer larvae in order to reproduce, they also need to eat brains (between 1 a week and 1 a month per flayer). They only need the latter to survive and be quite safe from starvation, but the Illithids are jerks, so they prefer the former.
** It's interesting how only humans, not other "player character races", are suitable for making true illithids. Attempts to transform other humanoids or other creatures usually fails fatally, or the creature becomes something only sorta illitha-like.
*** This was [[retcon]]ned. In ''Lords of Madness'', it's stated that ceremorphosis is primarily done on captured drow, who they share the Underdark with. It also works on the two Gith races, which makes sense as the Gith were originally a [[Slave Race]] that the illithids altered via [[Magic Genetics]] for that exact purpose.
** The Slaad implant their eggs in unfortunate victims, killing them if they manage to hatch, driving them crazy beforehand.
** In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', ancient [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Phaerimm Phaerimm], aka "thornbacks" aka "spell grubs". Spell-hurling, very resistant to magic (eating it, in fact), [[Brainwashed|mentally controlling]] everything they meet up to and including mindflayers, laying eggs into humanoid bodies. One even ''[[Let's Meet the Meat|complimented a prospective host]]'':
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