Mind flayers, the elder brain and pronouns.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

As we all know mind flayes are a genderless spieces the reproduce via implanting a tadpole into people and turning them into mind flayers.
Killing the host and stealing its memories.

The abosulute is refered to as a she.
The emperor i dont think is ever refered to by gender.

This brings me to the topic:
As a none gender spieces that reproduce via parasitic infection.

What would be a proper pronounce?
And why is the elder brain.
Who is a mind flayer(look up mind flayer lore. it is awesome)
Refer to as a she(I would ask the same if it was a he)

I personal think it is because on goddess is easier to sell then a none binear deity.
After all it is god or goddess.
How does a none binear deity even get refered too.

[Shahadem]

The Mother Brain was a she in BG2.

Also the mindflayers could have vestigial reproductive organs.

[Teddy]

It's Dur and Der, plural is Durp and Derp

[MostlyPanda]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

(look up mind flayer lore

funny you say that. you should look it up again. Elder Brain is not "A" Mind flayer.

It's more like a collection of hundreds of thousands of Ilithid minds merged with the deceased body of an Ulitharid.

[Teddy]

Originally posted by MostlyPanda:

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

(look up mind flayer lore

funny you say that. you should look it up again. Elder Brain is not "A" Mind flayer.

It's more like a collection of hundreds of thousands of Ilithid minds merged with the deceased body of an Ulitharid.

Isn't an elder brain the final stage of mind-flayer metamorphism, or no?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by MostlyPanda:

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

(look up mind flayer lore

funny you say that. you should look it up again. Elder Brain is not "A" Mind flayer.

It's more like a collection of hundreds of thousands of Ilithid minds merged with the deceased body of an Ulitharid.

Sounds to me like there part of the same spieces.
Mind flayer dragons are a thing.
And i remember that without a host tadpoles become something so horrifying mind flayers exterminate it on mass.
But that too is part of there spieces.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

As we all know mind flayes are a genderless spieces the reproduce via implanting a tadpole into people and turning them into mind flayers.
Killing the host and stealing its memories.

The abosulute is refered to as a she.
The emperor i dont think is ever refered to by gender.

This brings me to the topic:
As a none gender spieces that reproduce via parasitic infection.

What would be a proper pronounce?
And why is the elder brain.
Who is a mind flayer(look up mind flayer lore. it is awesome)
Refer to as a she(I would ask the same if it was a he)

I personal think it is because on goddess is easier to sell then a none binear deity.
After all it is god or goddess.
How does a none binear deity even get refered too.

Where do the tadpoles come from? Those are babies. Where is the mom and who is the father?

[Minnzy]

Referring to the Elder Brain as "she" probably comes from the fact she controls her hive like a Queen does in many insect species.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Where do the tadpoles come from? Those are babies. Where is the mom and who is the father?

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ceremorphosis
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Elder_brain
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_flayer

llithids were all sexless, without male or female biological sex,[62] and once or twice in their life they would lay a clutch of eggs from which tadpoles hatched.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Minnzy:

Referring to the Elder Brain as "she" probably comes from the fact she controls her hive like a Queen does in many insect species.

Fair point.

[Tootsy]

The proper pronoun for them is abomination.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Tootsy:

The proper pronoun for them is abomination.

They are Aberrations that is true.

[MostlyPanda]

Originally posted by Teddy:

Originally posted by MostlyPanda:

funny you say that. you should look it up again. Elder Brain is not "A" Mind flayer.

It's more like a collection of hundreds of thousands of Ilithid minds merged with the deceased body of an Ulitharid.

Isn't an elder brain the final stage of mind-flayer metamorphism, or no?

No.

That statement hints that the transformation of a tadpole will eventually happen into an Elder Brain.

Which is not true in Ilithid society.

1: It's not a metamorphosis
2: It happens willingly, not randomly
3: Only the Ulitharid are capable to do it

It's not a metamorphosis. The Ulitharid WILLINGLY removes his/her brain, puts it into a brain sludge, which was made by his/her own body (body composte). And that brain starts growing by absorbing Ilithid minds

Thats not metamorphosis, it's closer to ascending to godhood. As Ulitharid are already considered as minor gods