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An '''aberration''' is a thing that is "other."
== Known types ==


Aberrations are foreign. Alien. It is a category of the uncategorizable. They don't seem to make sense. We don't know what they're about, so we toss them all in to this category.
* '''[[Aboleth]]'''<ref>Source: ''Monster Manual'', 2014, p. 13.</ref>: Big psychic alien catfish.
* '''Beholder'''<ref>Source: ''Monster Manual'', 2014, p. 28.</ref>: Big floating eyeballs.
* '''Chuul'''<ref>Source: ''Monster Manual'', 2014, p. 40.</ref>: Big lobsters.
* '''Cloaker'''<ref>Source: ''Monster Manual'', 2014, p. 41.</ref>: Flying manta rays.
* '''Elder brain'''<ref>Source: ''Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse'', 2021, p. 120.</ref>: The final stage in the illithid life cycle. Elder brains look like enormous brains with tentacles jutting out of them, swimming in a pool of brine.
* '''Flumph''': Floating, philosophical jellyfish.
* '''Intellect devourer'''<ref>Source: ''Monster Manual'', 2014, p. 191.</ref>: Walking brains.
* '''Mind flayer'''<ref>Source: ''Monster Manual'', 2014, p. 222.</ref>
* '''Slaad'''<ref>Source: ''Monster Manual'', 2014, pp. 276-278.</ref>
* '''Star spawn'''
** '''Greater emissary'''<ref>Source: ''Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft'', 2021, p. 245''.</ref>
** '''Grue'''<ref>Source: ''Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse'', 2021, p. 227.</ref>
** '''Hulk'''<ref>Source: ''Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse'', 2021, p. 227.</ref>
** '''Larva mage'''<ref>Source: ''Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse'', 2021, p. 228.</ref>
** '''Lesser emissary'''<ref>Source: ''Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft'', 2021, p. 245''.</ref>
* '''[[Tsochar]]'''


Most of them are extremely dangerous. It's not necessarily because they're malevolent, but rather because their morality is so utterly alien to us that they often come across as capricious and malignant. They do horrible things in such a nonchalant manner that we cannot help but interpret them as evil.
== Endnotes ==
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An '''aberration''' is a thing that is "other." They're foreign. Alien. They're a category of the uncategorizable. They don't seem to make sense. We don't know what they're about, so we toss them all in to this category.
 
Most aberrations are extremely dangerous. It's not necessarily because they're malevolent, but rather because their morality is so utterly alien to us that they often come across as capricious and malignant. They do horrible things in so nonchalant a manner that we cannot help but interpret them as evil.


== Know types ==
== Know types ==


* [[Aboleth | Aboleths]].
* '''[[Aboleth | Aboleths]]''', AKA '''alghollthu masters'''.
* Anathemas.
* '''[[Beholder | Beholders]]'''. Giant floating eyeballs with tentacles who think they're the coolest thing since sliced bread.
* [[Beholder | Beholders]]. Giant floating eyeballs with tentacles who think they're the coolest thing since sliced bread.
* '''[[Flumph | Flumphs]]'''.
* [[Coleopteran | Coleopterans]]. Beetle people who don't exist yet.
* '''[[Illithid | Illithids]]''', AKA '''mind flayers'''.
* [[Daelkyr]]. A group of interdimensional horrors who manifest in material reality as highly psychic humanoids. In Eberron, the daelkyr are the big enchilada aberrations, not the aboleths: the daelkyr created many of the other aberrations as living weapons.
** '''Alhoons'''.
* [[Drider | Driders]]. These are drow transformed into half-spider half-elf monsters.
** '''[[Brainstealer dragon | Brainstealer dragons]]'''.
* [[Elder Thing | Elder Things]]. Big flying starfish.
** '''[[Elder brain | Elder brains]]'''.
* [[Neogi]]. Neogi are a race of space-faring eel-spiders. They are highly psychic and are notorious slavers.
** '''[[Mindwitness | Mindwitnesses]]'''.
* Nilshai.  
** '''[[Neothelid | Neothelids]]'''.
* [[Protean | Proteans]]. Flying crocodiles who don't really want to eat you so much as they want to eat reality.
 
* [[Psurlon | Psurlons]].  
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* [[Quori]]. The quori are a group of entities from the world of dreams.
 
* [[Seugathi]].
* '''[[Anathema (yuan-ti) | Anathemas (yuan-ti)]]'''.
* [[Slaad]]. Nasty frog boys who are not friendly.
* '''[[Avolakia]]'''.
* [[Star-Spawn]].  
* '''[[Chthonians]]'''.
* Tsochari.
* '''[[Chuul]]'''.
* [[Uvuudaum | Uvuudaums]]. The lords of the [[Far Realm]]. These are nightmares made real.
* '''[[Cloaker]]'''.
* '''[[Coleopteran | Coleopterans]]'''. Beetle people who don't exist yet.
* '''[[Daelkyr]]'''. A group of interdimensional horrors who manifest in material reality as highly psychic humanoids. In Eberron, the daelkyr are the big enchilada aberrations, not the aboleths: the daelkyr created many of the other aberrations as living weapons.
* '''[[Deep Ones]]'''.
* '''[[Drider | Driders]]'''. These are drow transformed into half-spider half-elf monsters.
* '''[[Elder Things]]'''. Big flying starfish.
* '''[[Foulspawn]]'''.
* '''[[Flying Polyps]]'''.
* '''[[Great Race of Yith]]'''.
* '''[[Intellect devourer | Intellect devourers]]'''.
* '''[[Kaorti]]'''.
* '''[[Nothic]]'''
* '''[[Neh-thalggu | Neh-thalggus]]'''.
* '''[[Neogi]]'''. Neogi are a race of space-faring eel-spiders. They are highly psychic and are notorious slavers.
* '''[[Nilshai]]'''.  
* '''[[Nothic | Nothics]]'''.
* '''[[Phaerimm | Phaerimms]]'''.
* '''[[Protean | Proteans]]'''. Flying crocodiles who don't really want to eat you so much as they want to eat reality.
* '''[[Psurlon | Psurlons]]'''.  
* '''[[Quori]]'''. The quori are a group of entities from the world of dreams.
* '''[[Seugathi]]'''.
* '''[[Slaad]]'''. Nasty frog boys who are not friendly.
* '''[[Spellweaver | Spellweavers]]'''.
* '''[[Star-Spawn]]'''.  
* '''[[Tsochar | Tsochari]]'''.
* '''[[Uvuudaum | Uvuudaums]]'''. The lords of the [[Far Realm]]. These are nightmares made real.
 
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== See also ==
 
* [[Far Realm]]
* [[Elder Evils]]
* [[Cthulhu Mythos]]
* [[Dark Tapestry]]
* [[Dominion of the Black]]
* [[Chaos Gods]]
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Latest revision as of 02:56, 26 November 2023

Known types

  • Aboleth[1]: Big psychic alien catfish.
  • Beholder[2]: Big floating eyeballs.
  • Chuul[3]: Big lobsters.
  • Cloaker[4]: Flying manta rays.
  • Elder brain[5]: The final stage in the illithid life cycle. Elder brains look like enormous brains with tentacles jutting out of them, swimming in a pool of brine.
  • Flumph: Floating, philosophical jellyfish.
  • Intellect devourer[6]: Walking brains.
  • Mind flayer[7]
  • Slaad[8]
  • Star spawn
  • Tsochar

Endnotes

  1. ↑ Source: Monster Manual, 2014, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Source: Monster Manual, 2014, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Source: Monster Manual, 2014, p. 40.
  4. ↑ Source: Monster Manual, 2014, p. 41.
  5. ↑ Source: Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, 2021, p. 120.
  6. ↑ Source: Monster Manual, 2014, p. 191.
  7. ↑ Source: Monster Manual, 2014, p. 222.
  8. ↑ Source: Monster Manual, 2014, pp. 276-278.
  9. ↑ Source: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, 2021, p. 245.
  10. ↑ Source: Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, 2021, p. 227.
  11. ↑ Source: Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, 2021, p. 227.
  12. ↑ Source: Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse, 2021, p. 228.
  13. ↑ Source: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, 2021, p. 245.
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