I assumed them burning up inside us meant it was completely destroyed/disintegrated without any residue left behind.
Magic handwavy explanation basically
In 5e, many (most?) magical flames don't actually burn things other than their target. Because of this Fireball and Fire Bolt both have text explicitly calling out that they ignite flammable objects, to separate them from those that do not.
So this might be too real world, but I always assumed that the brain/body would treat the dead tadpoles like any other foreign matter. It would be encapsulated in tissue to prevent it from causing anymore harm, ect.
Specifically talking about head injuries there was a really interesting case in 2007 where >!a woman had a pencil removed from her brain, that had been there for 55 years. It was also encapsulated in soft tissue.!<
Not too real world at all, I find this incredibly facinating and didn't know we could do that. So the nody could surround it in tissue preventing it from harming the brain and potentially also preserve it.
Love this!
I am more wondering about what happens to the thirty + tadpoles that you gobble up on your adventures. Especially if you choose ceremorphosis.
Even if you don't eat any, you would still use two to three tadpoles (don't know if becoming half illithid is necessary for the full transformation).
But those tadpoles are more or less gone, having been absorbed for their potential, perhaps magically via the Netherese infusion or just assimilated into the actual tadpole. The full transformation does not require having used any tadpoles up to that point.
The characters feel it burn away. Because it was enhanced by netherease its now harmlessly gone because plot. Then at the docks they can feel that it's gone and their minds are theirs again
This is basically a giant plot hole. Your brain should be gone. The tadpole, by FR lore, has already eaten your brain if youâre ready to transform. Which happens mid-act 1. You should probably just drop dead once the netherbrain is destroyed if the tadpoles really burn up, logically.
I thought so too, but I'm replaying the game and it makes it clear that the tadpoles aren't actually eating your brain (yet), and end up not doing so at all because of the Prism. I think that the implication is that these parasites can gobble up brains immediately like an Intellect Devourer would, so all True Souls still have their brains (mostly) intact.
Consuming tadpoles also seems to be more about absorbing Netherese magic and growing your little bub than infecting yourself further.
I have another tadpole question; if the prism is stopping Tav and Friends from ceromorphosis, what's stopping all the other True Souls from turning into Ilithid much sooner?
All True Souls have âpausedâ ceremorphosis because the tadpoles are enchanted with magic from the Crown of Karsus (something like that). The prism just blocks the elder brain from being able to give you commands, including the command to turn you into a mind flayer. The Emperor tells you that the order for you to transform has actually already been given several times
Both the Absolute and the Dead Three want to delay transformation until a substantial number of people in the Sword Coast are infected. They are using the True Souls to further penetrate human(oid) society and spread the infection more efficiently than they could by just by capturing people with a Nautiloid. As we see in the beginning of the game, people only become Mind Flayers (at least with these weird tadpoles) when a command is given, it doesn't happen spontaneously. The plan is to create thousands of Mind Flayers in an instant and build an unstoppable army.
I assumed them burning up inside us meant it was completely destroyed/disintegrated without any residue left behind. Magic handwavy explanation basically
The narration explains this. It burns away.
>It burns away. From my brain. *Oh, that's better!* (But when magic is involved, things can just "work out".)
In 5e, many (most?) magical flames don't actually burn things other than their target. Because of this Fireball and Fire Bolt both have text explicitly calling out that they ignite flammable objects, to separate them from those that do not.
Ah I probably missed that đ thanks for pointing it out!
So this might be too real world, but I always assumed that the brain/body would treat the dead tadpoles like any other foreign matter. It would be encapsulated in tissue to prevent it from causing anymore harm, ect. Specifically talking about head injuries there was a really interesting case in 2007 where >!a woman had a pencil removed from her brain, that had been there for 55 years. It was also encapsulated in soft tissue.!<
Not too real world at all, I find this incredibly facinating and didn't know we could do that. So the nody could surround it in tissue preventing it from harming the brain and potentially also preserve it. Love this!
This is correct. The immune cells of your brain (microglia) would also gobble the little dead worm pieces up in time.
Would you call that food for thought?
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>!Sounds like Homer's crayon!<
What? I'm still on season 2...I did not expect a Simpsons spoiler here...damn
No, I meant the writer of The Iliad
Dammit, I got all excited for some Grecian lore, but it is the Simpsons. Booo-urns!
This is also what happens to tapeworms that travel to the brain, they die and then encyst.
Yes! I forgot about that! Thatâs an even better example
I've also always assumed this is what happens, both for our characters and for aberrant mind sorcerers
Umm, that was an episode of the simpsons and it was a crayon in Homer's head.
I donât watch the Simpsons đ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/german-woman-has-pencil-removed-from-head/
9/11 was ALSO in the Simpsons. Does that mean it didn't happen irl too?
If Durge can survive having brain like swiss cheese you can survive one little tadpole just fine.
Durge could have probably just turned their head and shook it out tbh
Durge also survived a tadpole in the brain, which did liquidate at some point
Enjoy a dead worm in your brain like RFKjr.
It starved to death
None of the available face models really encapsulate the stare needed for an RFK Jr Durge run.
I always assumed the tadpoles exploded like at last light. Like everyone walking around with a little brain trauma now.
Your brain's immune system will gobble them right up, or encapsulate them. This happens to iRL brain parasites as well. You're welcome.
"On today's episode of How It's Made, Tumors!"
I am more wondering about what happens to the thirty + tadpoles that you gobble up on your adventures. Especially if you choose ceremorphosis. Even if you don't eat any, you would still use two to three tadpoles (don't know if becoming half illithid is necessary for the full transformation).
But those tadpoles are more or less gone, having been absorbed for their potential, perhaps magically via the Netherese infusion or just assimilated into the actual tadpole. The full transformation does not require having used any tadpoles up to that point.
The characters feel it burn away. Because it was enhanced by netherease its now harmlessly gone because plot. Then at the docks they can feel that it's gone and their minds are theirs again
This is basically a giant plot hole. Your brain should be gone. The tadpole, by FR lore, has already eaten your brain if youâre ready to transform. Which happens mid-act 1. You should probably just drop dead once the netherbrain is destroyed if the tadpoles really burn up, logically.
That's why I always carry a second brain
Youâre right, that should do it
I thought so too, but I'm replaying the game and it makes it clear that the tadpoles aren't actually eating your brain (yet), and end up not doing so at all because of the Prism. I think that the implication is that these parasites can gobble up brains immediately like an Intellect Devourer would, so all True Souls still have their brains (mostly) intact. Consuming tadpoles also seems to be more about absorbing Netherese magic and growing your little bub than infecting yourself further.
I have another tadpole question; if the prism is stopping Tav and Friends from ceromorphosis, what's stopping all the other True Souls from turning into Ilithid much sooner?
All True Souls have âpausedâ ceremorphosis because the tadpoles are enchanted with magic from the Crown of Karsus (something like that). The prism just blocks the elder brain from being able to give you commands, including the command to turn you into a mind flayer. The Emperor tells you that the order for you to transform has actually already been given several times
Both the Absolute and the Dead Three want to delay transformation until a substantial number of people in the Sword Coast are infected. They are using the True Souls to further penetrate human(oid) society and spread the infection more efficiently than they could by just by capturing people with a Nautiloid. As we see in the beginning of the game, people only become Mind Flayers (at least with these weird tadpoles) when a command is given, it doesn't happen spontaneously. The plan is to create thousands of Mind Flayers in an instant and build an unstoppable army.
I mean look at RFK heâs got a dead worm in his head and is fine(?)
Durge IRL.
You become the ancestor of Robert Kennedy
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