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I may do this for other books, not the Illithiad, though. That's like 93 pages worth of squid, even if it's mostly pictures, I ain't doin' all that 💀

Here's the whole book

Here's also a bunch of other books that have mindflayer lore:

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Dragon Magazine 337

Dragon Magazine 308

Dragon Magazine 281

Dragon Magazine 255

Dragon Magazine 078

The Illithiad [BW - Color] (This ones my fave :))

Dawn of the Overmind (a lot of bg3 is based on this book)

Murder in Baldur's Gate (this is where the emperor came from)

Underdark

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft

Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse

Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Psionics Handbook [Basic - Extended]

Lords of Darkness

Monster Vault

Monstrous Manual

Monster Manual 4th edition

Monster Manual V

Lords of Madness: The book of Aberrations ,

Monster Manual

Volo's Guide to Monsters

Monsters of the Mind, Minions of the Mind Flayers

Here's a much shorter one compared to my last Illithid post from The Lords of Madness.

As with the last one, here's the whole issue.

Here's also a bunch of other books that have mindflayer lore:

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Dragon Magazine 337 (you are here)

Dragon Magazine 308

Dragon Magazine 281

Dragon Magazine 255

Dragon Magazine 078

The Illithiad [BW - Color] (This ones my fave :))

Dawn of the Overmind (a lot of bg3 is based on this book)

Murder in Baldur's Gate (this is where the emperor came from)

Underdark

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft

Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse

Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Psionics Handbook [Basic - Extended]

Lords of Darkness

Monster Vault

Monstrous Manual

Monster Manual 4th edition

Monster Manual V

Lords of Madness: The book of Aberrations

Monster Manual

Volo's Guide to Monsters

I see that you lost the ask, so here it is, with several more!

All of these come from Ed Greenwood, creator of the Realms and mastermind behind the Alhoon.

As per Ed's Contract with TSR (and now WotC), Ed Greenwood retains the right to create lore for the Forgotten Realms, all of which is to be considered canonical.

This first one is a bite-sized chunk from a Patreon post. For more Realmslore, of course, anyone should go and become his patron.

What Illithids Know Of Toril, And Beyond

Illithids guard information jealously, not sharing outside of a community and seeking to tie personal status within a community to being “in the know,” so they don’t easily, widely, or swiftly share. This hampers their world-views in a heavy and ongoing manner.

Now, the rest are from his public youtube page!

And, finally, a story (rather than the usual lore) from Ed

Armed to the tentacle, The Illithid Arsenal

This issue is mostly about symbionts! One of my favorite illithid items, which has since mostly been dropped from the lore, or at the very least, shifted to being a General Thing, at least as far as the wiki for them goes. This issue also has one of my favorite illithid depictions and inspired me to make my oc Diadem!

Here's the whole issue.

Dragon Magazine 281

By any other name, races of the Underdark

Very little actually about mindflayers in 281, but it does have personal names. Do keep in mind that this issue has been seen by many people, so if you do plan to use them to name your character, be aware that you might eventually come across another illithid with the same name.

Whole issue here

Other books that have mindflayer lore:

Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Dragon Magazine 337

Dragon Magazine 308 (you are here)

Dragon Magazine 281 (and here)

Dragon Magazine 255

Dragon Magazine 078

The Illithiad [BW - Color] (This ones my fave :)) (part 0)

A Darkness Gathering (Part 1)

Masters of Eternal Night (Part 2)

Dawn of the Overmind (a lot of bg3 is based on this book) (part 3)

Murder in Baldur's Gate (this is where the emperor came from)

Underdark

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft

Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse

Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Psionics Handbook [Basic - Extended]

Lords of Darkness

Monster Vault

Monstrous Manual

Monster Manual 4th edition

Monster Manual V

Lords of Madness: The book of Aberrations

Monster Manual