Mind flayers are sadistic aberrations feared by sentient creatures on many worlds across the multiverse due to their powerful psionic abilities. From their twisted lairs deep in the Underdark, these alien entities seek to expand their dominion over all other lifeforms, controlling their minds to use them as obedient thralls. They consume their victims' very personality by extracting and devouring their brains while they are still alive. Mind flayers have utterly alien thought processes and enigmatic objectives. They see themselves as masterminds that twisted others into serving their own sinister and far-reaching schemes. While some individuals could show extreme variance in mindset, the majority share many common beliefs and precepts. In the minds of the mind flayers, their kind act as agents of "Order", forces of law tasked with taming a chaotic and unguided universe. They see the various races as potential thralls with no supervision, living out aimless existences and working with no direction. In this role as slave masters, the mind flayers constantly work for what they see as the betterment of the cosmos, asserting their ultimate control to provide the restoration of order that only their superior species could bestow to all the multiverse. An illithid's bulging, ridged, elongated head is reminiscent of an octopus, with a cluster of four flexible, unsegmented, extendable, purplish-black tentacles surrounding their mouths. The tentacles could range in length from 2​ to ​4 feet (0.61​ to ​1.2 meters), appearing shorter when an illithid was at rest. They writhed and undulated almost constantly and absent-mindedly while the illithid pondered or otherwise was not using them. Instinct: Enslave helpless humanoids

• Devour brains