Back to races

Illithid

A descendent of the underdark and former enemy of the drow, the illithid's now are common members of Shetou. They are freakishly intelligent and have innate psionic abilities and quickly learn other forms of magic. They tend to be found as scholars, business leaders, and magic specialists. Though the most common profession they fill is law enforcement, acting as detectives. They tend to enjoy eating brains, but since that isn't a requested menu item by many other races there is an abundance of their favored food source from the slaughterhouses.

In Shetou illithid's are loved members of society for their surprisingly charismatic nature, outside of Shetou Illithid's remain one of the most feared species in the system. Illithid pirates that devour the brains of entire crews or can psionically steal all of your memories are quite common horror stories about the race. Alnae spies fear every illithid in the streets never knowing when such a psionically empowered race might discover and destroy them. Enemies of these psionic masters remember and their old medieval name of mindflayer.

Stats

Cost: 30 Experience

Medium Creature
5m base speed
240 year lifespan
Starting health: 8

+4 to willpower
+2 to intelligence
-2 to strength
-2 to constitution

Illithids may take adept: Psionic or adept: Arcane for free.

Psionic/Arcane master: All psionic or arcane spells and talents cost 5xp less to buy.

Brain Drain: If an illithid successfully grapples a target they may deal 1d6+will damage to the target each round. If the target reaches 0hp the illithid may choose to render them dead or unconscious as they please.