D&D Lore: Through the Eyes of the Mind Flayers 

Throw in a brief mention that she's heard rumors of Drow mages disappearing recently...

I do now! 😈

@@DelverofDungeons And I will look forward to it with great anticipation! Aboleths and Illithids (and Flumphs) are probably my favourite species in D&D! They have so much fascinating lore!

I've seen some interesting campaigns start this way, where the party meets the creature that will be the big bad early on in the story, escape him, and now they have an idea of the max level that the campaign is intended to reach.

I also like the idea of an aberrant mind sorcerer or an old one patron warlock meeting a mindflayer and being the voice that tells the party not to fight, just run!

I'm pretty sure the original is dead. This is just the baby mindflayer first "learning to walk" with nothing but the residual host memories that he ate as a tadpole to go off of. The moment he began connecting to the other members of his colony (accessing their communal memories), he began to cease feeling that something was out of place. However, the idea that this "first meal" (their host) is formulative to their personality and interests is quite interesting... it has a lot of potential for storytelling. Some incredibly evil and ambitious Drow is captured by mindflayers, and a few decades later a wildly ambitious mindflayer begins causing chaos in the underdark. The Drow then realize that exiling their former queen might have had some disastrous consequences down the line... she's causing them trouble even after her death.

@@leyrua nice.

The soul passes on to whatever afterlife suits it, so yes, you're gone. The new illithid has all your memories, though

AJ Pickett has some good stuff on his channel about their lore (from which you can extrapolate their tactics and adventures etc). I think he has 3 or 4 videos regarding the illithids

@@johntheherbalistg8756 thanks I can't find book 3 of the dawn of the overmind...one of the best flayer mods in dnd history