Mindflayer

The person is gone. That should be said first, for the family seldom believes it. An illithid larva got in, and ate what it found, and grew into the room it had emptied; and what looks out of the eyes now is the larva, grown up, wearing the body and remembering some of the errands.

It is of the people it took, in height and build. But about the mouth, which has gone round like a lamprey's, hang four tentacles, and it speaks without using the mouth at all: the words are in the hearer's head before he can refuse them. It is cleverer than its host was. It is hungry, in a way that is not spoken of at table. And magic runs off its mind as rain runs off a slate roof.

Details

• +8% overall complexity and +20% mind complexity.
• +15 magic resistance.
• Speaks telepathically.