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theory: what if mind flayers are githyanki from the future (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Been playing through baldurs gate 3 recently as I'm sure many of you have been and started to think that githyanki are really similar to the mind flayers. Both see themselves as somewhat independent but have a greater queen they serve, have a fairly utilitarian society to say the least, possess psionic abilities that are very similar to each other and long to make an inter planary empire. Now many of these similarities can be a poetic story of how they never grew or learnt from the oppression they faced, but I think that this theory adds something great to the story as they both have a mysterious origin that is somewhat explained by this, and adds a reason to why the aboleths who know all the past don't know anything about mind flayers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting take, I think they look pretty similar even when from different races but it's interesting that there's no default state of being born for them.