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#1 zombiegleemax Jan 06, 2004 16:30:59	Would the God Brain of Bluetspur allow the worship of the Illithid Pantheon? Or do you think this maybe it's curse? I was thinking, why call it a God Brain and make such a big deal about it? Perhaps in its community, the Brain tried to subvert the Illithid churches, forcing the clerics to worship it or killing any clerics who worshipped Illuscene(sp?) and replacing them with Illithids who worshipped it.
#2 zombiegleemax Jan 06, 2004 17:35:07	I don't know... I don't think there would be a problem with other illithid's worshipping the pantheon... But it would have a much larger ego than the average elder brain. But I don't see killing clerics because you want to be worshipped as a god to be worthy of a becoming a dark lord, at least, not among illithids. After all, the elder brain is allowed to declare that it won't absorb someone, and even call for the death of an alhoon or arcane magic practicer. I have little problem seeing them cull dissidents from their ranks for whatever reason. Maybe in an attempt to increase its power and become an overseer of more than just illithids., the God Brain began to force the other illithids to sacrifice themselves before their time, and demanded the inclusion of non-illithid brains. After culling entire regions of sentient beings, letting its charges starve because of its desires, and absorbing the illithids whenever it felt like it, rather than waiting until after their death, the Mists grabbed at it. Its the God Brain because that's what it wanted to be. Does that make sense?
#3 zombiegleemax Jan 07, 2004 1:24:49	Though by no means sure I'm guessing the Illithid dieties came out in the planescape materail and might have arrived on the scene after the appearance of the God Brain. In that case its just a matter of the God brain existing in a deific void. As much as any DL the Brain does wield "godlike" energies and is essentially unbeatable by PCs of any level. I think Mangrum's best article might have been an alternative for psionic in RL which appeared in one of the early net books. In a very lovecraftian way psionics breach the planar material of RL, but sadly just to the Godbrain's demese. Usually the psion is ultimately transpossed (via a variation on powers checks) to Bluetspur in horrible fashion. Maybe its also worth (re)stating that in RL I persoanlly think Bluetspur stands in for Lovecraft's works, in all it alienness. Even more so than Timor. As such traditional gods, even illithid ones, would be inapproriate. Just my two cents. -Eric Gorman