Editing Illithid (section)

==Creeds==
Illithid communities are governed by a group of representatives called an Elder Concord, while the Elder Brain acts like the president.  These representatives come from the various creeds or factions of illithid culture.  Each creed has different beliefs about the best path towards taking over the universe.  The symbols of each creeds are squares containing six horizontal bars that are either solid or split in two.
* The Creatives devote themselves to advancing illithid society though scientific and psionic research and invention.
* The Awaiters believe in [[Just As Planned|long term planning]] and avoid making rash decisions.
* The Possessors think hording wealth and resources through trade with other races is the best path to power.
* The Tamers work to build up the illithid's military strength so they can dominate the universe through force.
* The Thorough Biters have a philosophy of learning through failure, making them more humble that most other illithids.
* The Nourishers promote the interest of maintaining the community's supply of thralls.
* The Abysmal feel that the best way to dominate other races is through the power of terror.
* The Influencers specialize in collecting intelligence and misleading their enemies through infiltration and spying.
* The Darkeners, the dudes who think they can find a way to extinguish suns.
* The Gatherers want to consolidate the illithid race into larger, more powerful communities instead of many small disparate ones.
* The Arisers say that illithids shouldn't stay in darkness and so they develop ways for them to work in daylight and make plans for conquering the surface.
* The Venerators are the worshipers of the illithid god [[Ilsensine]].

* The Loretakers are a minor creed, but they are important as the source of the Thoon:

Some Loretaker mind flayers (possibly) went to the [[Far Realm]] and apparently encountered something called Thoon. However, the exact nature of Thoon is unknown even to the mind flayers themselves, so whether Thoon is a god, an aberration, a philosophy, or something else entirely is open to interpretation. In any case, the encounter with Thoon changed these particular illithids completely, they're a lot more irrational and unpredictable (NE instead of LE),  make use of a lot of really weird constructs and altered humanoids (and employ a variant of the mind flayer that trades the ability to control minds for ninja powers), and for some fucking insane reason a CR 25 Elder brain came back as a CR 15 entity that's totally batshit insane. Oh, and they also seek to gather [[Psion|quintessence]] for some reason.