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Baldur’s Gate 3 offers a unique branch of optional powers that you can grant your character through the consumption of Tadpoles. Illithid Powers are available to any Class in the game as long as the ...

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GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Baldur's Gate 3 stars a protagonist with what's essentially an alien worm stuck inside of them. The mind flayers, a well-known race in the Dungeons & ...

GamesBeat: While mind flayers do have gods, they don’t really “pray” or “worship” these beings, right? Perkins: Mind flayer “gods” exist. What they are exactly remains ambiguous. They might be elder ...

Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally out — and even if you were a Divinity: Original Sin 2 head, like me, I still have an urgent warning for you: The opening of the story is quite dark, and also very gross. The ...

The Mind Flayers (or Illithid) are a race of psychic and intelligent creatures best known for their hive mind and for their desire to feed on people’s brains. Their powerful psychic abilities and ...

What’s more, these mind flayers have a goal somewhat similar to one of the central threats faced by players in Baldur’s Gate 3 – ceremorphosis, the process of becoming a mind flayer. While ...