If I recall the numbers correctly, Alaundos prophecy originates from 75DR at which time bhaal, bane and myrkul were already gods for some time.
Bhaal had until the time of troubles in 1358DR to develop his progeny. That seems plenty of time to get some strange experiments going.
Adult dragons are 100+ years old.
All the math works out.
My assumption is that charname is one of the last batches of offspring that was created.
Luna is a common trans girl name. I can think of a lot of people who would love to be taken in by a kindly mind flayer who bought them pretty clothes and used mind control to make their former enemies root for them.
I like to think that said mind flayer was also chased out of its own community due to having too many tentacles. (Ulitharids hve 6 tentacles, and they're already regarded as being ultra-elites among their kind. An illithid with as many tentacles as this one has might have been perceived as being a threat to the Elder Brain itself. )
Mind control is anathema to me. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Stop them, maybe try to enlighten them but brainwash them? I'll pass...
That is a very thought-provoking topic. If you use mind-controlling magic to compel a creature to do good deeds, or change its alignment to Good, even for its own salvation (assuming this is a D&D world where Evil souls will definitely wind up in the Lower Planes somewhere), is that in itself, still a good deed, considering that you never gave the creature a choice in the matter?
Ed Lay makes some very interesting web comics... The Luna/Mindreaver story is currently in part 6. I'll just link to his webtoon page here and stop derailing the thread
I like to think that said mind flayer was also chased out of its own community due to having too many tentacles. (Ulitharids hve 6 tentacles, and they're already regarded as being ultra-elites among their kind. An illithid with as many tentacles as this one has might have been perceived as being a threat to the Elder Brain itself. )
Mind control is anathema to me. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Stop them, maybe try to enlighten them but brainwash them? I'll pass...
That is a very thought-provoking topic. If you use mind-controlling magic to compel a creature to do good deeds, or change its alignment to Good, even for its own salvation (assuming this is a D&D world where Evil souls will definitely wind up in the Lower Planes somewhere), is that in itself, still a good deed, considering that you never gave the creature a choice in the matter?
If you use mind control to force a creature to do neutral deeds, does that count as a neutral act?
In one of the other comics I mentioned the good mindflayer uses mind control to force a human to jump and save her from a trap he still had not disarmed in the dungeon. So was this a good or evil act?
anomen and by extension characters inspired by him in later bioware games like carth and kaiden get way to much hate.
One of my favourite interactions with Kaiden actually comes from ME3. He's sitting alone in the rec room after you've finished a mission to evacuate some Cerberus scientists who've fled the Illusive Man, and he says to you, "Those Cerberus people we rescued... They were good people. People with families, dreams. Cerberus did horrible things, but those people... they were GOOD people." And you could see him trying to mentally reconcile the realization that it's possible for good people to get caught up in evil movements when they were only trying to do the right thing. It was an excellent character building moment, especially given how in the previous game Kaiden refuses to join you once he learns you're with Cerberus. I thought it was quite a thought-provoking moment when we have a tendency in real life to view people in movements we disagree with as "the enemy", somebody who is no longer human.
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Perhaps his son is adopted?
Bhaal had until the time of troubles in 1358DR to develop his progeny. That seems plenty of time to get some strange experiments going.
Adult dragons are 100+ years old.
All the math works out.
My assumption is that charname is one of the last batches of offspring that was created.
I like to think that said mind flayer was also chased out of its own community due to having too many tentacles.
That is a very thought-provoking topic. If you use mind-controlling magic to compel a creature to do good deeds, or change its alignment to Good, even for its own salvation (assuming this is a D&D world where Evil souls will definitely wind up in the Lower Planes somewhere), is that in itself, still a good deed, considering that you never gave the creature a choice in the matter?
https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/edd-lais-stories/list?title_no=301213
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Help Marl and gain 900 Exp then kill him for an additional 650 Exp.
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in the vanilla bg1 yes, but in the EEs, they made it if you kill him when he is blue you will actually lose REP
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anomen and by extension characters inspired by him in later bioware games like carth and kaiden get way to much hate.
One of my favourite interactions with Kaiden actually comes from ME3. He's sitting alone in the rec room after you've finished a mission to evacuate some Cerberus scientists who've fled the Illusive Man, and he says to you, "Those Cerberus people we rescued... They were good people. People with families, dreams. Cerberus did horrible things, but those people... they were GOOD people." And you could see him trying to mentally reconcile the realization that it's possible for good people to get caught up in evil movements when they were only trying to do the right thing. It was an excellent character building moment, especially given how in the previous game Kaiden refuses to join you once he learns you're with Cerberus. I thought it was quite a thought-provoking moment when we have a tendency in real life to view people in movements we disagree with as "the enemy", somebody who is no longer human.