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  • @nikitamalikov6683
    @nikitamalikov6683 5 років тому +5525

    New character idea: wants to destroy the gods because he sees the suffering they commit unto the world. Finds an aboleth, aboleth searches him for his deepest desire, finds it's exactly the same as the aboleth's and doesn't even bother with mind controlling him.
    Boom. Instant warlock.

    • @phoos4029
      @phoos4029 5 років тому +609

      I was thinking the same. It could go with straight evil character or a well meaning one that see the dominion of the gods as a tyranny that needs to be overtrown.

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 5 років тому +51

      @@phoos4029 an aathar

    • @Arenuphis
      @Arenuphis 5 років тому +334

      There's even some traits and stuff in pathfinder about being a gods-have-no-business-in-mortal-affairs-ist which gives you resistance to divine magic

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 5 років тому +279

      @@Arenuphis "god's have no buisness in mortal affairs"? In a fantasy setting, isn't that pretty much the equivalent of being a Sovereign Citizen?

    • @jordanwhite8718
      @jordanwhite8718 5 років тому +198

      As the priests of tyr drag you off to jail for blasfeaming against the gods you yell I do not consent!!! I do not consent!!!

  • @CanonThought
    @CanonThought 5 років тому +1559

    One theory for why Aboleths don't remember mind flayers is the same reason there's no ruins of their empire. Whatever the Gith did to overthrow them erased them and their kingdoms from reality and history. The only reason there's some left is because they were in their ships between realities during the event that did this that the Gith caused.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 років тому +193

      @@Wolf_ManJack Totally possible if you consider that there used to be 10th level spells that could warp timespace and reshape continents.

    • @jonathantanner7083
      @jonathantanner7083 5 років тому +100

      The other theory is that the mind flayers are from the future.

    • @UltimaXReborn
      @UltimaXReborn 5 років тому +38

      A retroactive assault against their former masters. Brilliant.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 років тому +29

      @@jonathantanner7083 89% on that theory. I would like to avoid a mental singularity if possible. Either way i would fuck a single mind flayer up bare handed. The insane are harder to mind fuck.

    • @internetexplorer8588
      @internetexplorer8588 5 років тому +50

      Dwarves accidently CHIM'd em from all the way in the elder scrolls universe

  • @Cnvvj
    @Cnvvj 5 років тому +346

    ahhh, good old aboleths. my first D&D character was a dwarven wizard who ended up getting slime-slapped by one, cue one very unhappy dwarf being forced to ride around in a barrel full of water to avoid drying out.

    • @astrangeone
      @astrangeone 5 років тому +83

      Lol. I'm just imagining the roleplaying opportunities.
      "Gods below, someone pour some ale into my barrel, I'm parched!"

    • @alezvolta
      @alezvolta 3 роки тому +18

      Axolotl in a bucket

  • @medramonmasquedecendres2966
    @medramonmasquedecendres2966 5 років тому +916

    The Mass-Effect Leviathan dialogue could also work
    -"They are only echoes. We existed long before"
    -"Then what are you?"
    -"Something more"
    Brain hurt

    • @mariedruckenmiller4601
      @mariedruckenmiller4601 5 років тому +42

      Reapers as space Aboleths? I'd buy it far better than what we got.

    • @Ardorstorm
      @Ardorstorm 5 років тому +44

      @@mariedruckenmiller4601 actually the reapers would technically be the gods, while aboleths are the leviathans from a mass effect 3 dlc, reapers and leviathans are absolutely not the same.

    • @sidetracker3496
      @sidetracker3496 5 років тому +6

      @@Ardorstorm that'd imply that the Aboleths created the gods though which is kinda of a bit dumb.

    • @Raptorman0205
      @Raptorman0205 4 роки тому +6

      @@mariedruckenmiller4601 Reapers are to Leviathans as Geth are to Quarians.

  • @senorali
    @senorali 5 років тому +1864

    It's nice to see aberrations that are somewhat reasonable and could possibly be incorporated into a campaign in a nonviolent way. I'm definitely going to write a campaign where a paladin has to seek an an aboleth's knowledge on how to destroy an enemy god.

    • @crysanthiumvega
      @crysanthiumvega 5 років тому +118

      I've been writing a campaign where the party is adventuring solely on the behest of an aboleth

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 5 років тому +129

      meanwhile the Lawful good flumphs cry in a corner

    • @Scarletraven87
      @Scarletraven87 5 років тому +82

      I had a campaign where aboleths instructed heroes on how to stop a lich and save the world too
      it sort of was a Order of The Stick scenario, where each side had something to gain in pulling their way. The lich was just the biggest baddie on the end of the world board.

    • @Scarletraven87
      @Scarletraven87 5 років тому +2

      @@crysanthiumvega
      Way too railtracked

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 5 років тому +10

      @@Scarletraven87 oh? what were the Aboleth's motives?

  • @callumn2111
    @callumn2111 5 років тому +2532

    Anyone think Runesmith has been mind controlled by an aboleth.

    • @stripeybag6977
      @stripeybag6977 5 років тому +77

      I thought the good people of House Dimir found his body stabbed to death in an alley.

    • @Doomroar
      @Doomroar 5 років тому +78

      @@stripeybag6977 Now why would the good, benevolent, charitable, and innocent people of House Dimir even do that?

    • @willnorman-bargo
      @willnorman-bargo 5 років тому +16

      No he is one but not even he knows, yet.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 років тому +18

      @@Doomroar mindsculpting is the greatest sin. Rape my body but leave my grasp of reality the fuck alone!

    • @catherinevo6060
      @catherinevo6060 5 років тому +5

      Queek 75 me

  • @AeonHero64
    @AeonHero64 5 років тому +651

    I finally have a patron to make a Warlock character around: Carl, the Great Ultra Mega Old One God.
    Honestly, I think he'd be a pretty chill boss.

    • @theadtheogrekiller5629
      @theadtheogrekiller5629 5 років тому +12

      Nathan Marsee you could use a triton to represent your ability to breathe water since that seems like something an aboleth would grant, and becuase you have a special contract maybe you don’t get all the downsides like not being able to breathe air no more? I think triton are in Volos guide to monsters

    • @beastwarsFTW
      @beastwarsFTW 5 років тому +3

      @@theadtheogrekiller5629
      Would also be a good way to fit Simic Hybrids into a non Ravnica game.

    • @Hadaron
      @Hadaron 4 роки тому +3

      Aeon Hero
      The Eldest (yes C is the actually correct answer) is actually a GOO patron. My current character is a warlock of the Eldest and it’s been neat.

  • @itstocgh3286
    @itstocgh3286 5 років тому +528

    Wouldn’t mind flayers hunt aboleths down since they have the memories of like 6 million people

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 4 роки тому +59

      Elder brains got nothing on abolith brains

    • @alpharius3661
      @alpharius3661 4 роки тому +119

      If they did I think the mind flare would get type 4 diabetes, or psy-abietes

    • @dragonheart1236
      @dragonheart1236 4 роки тому +58

      @@alpharius3661 that's the second part of the campaign. The absolute chaos that would befall the colony of Mindflayers once an Aboleth is discovered to be at their disposal. The party then gets caught in the crossfire of the inevitable civil war.

    • @Itashino2
      @Itashino2 3 роки тому +24

      ​@@alexross1816 If the party is strong enough to capture an Aboleth then they are definitely strong enough to kill a mind flayer so that doesn't make much sense, and if they aren't even strong enough to kill a mind flayer then why would the mind flayer even bother with them?

    • @snowboundwhale6860
      @snowboundwhale6860 3 роки тому +18

      @@alexross1816 It'd work better as the party finding 1 Mind Flayer that leads to finding a full colony they don't have a reasonable chance against, and then the Elder Brain gives them that task

  • @DyrgeAfterDark
    @DyrgeAfterDark 5 років тому +109

    When the DM threatens to slap you so hard you sprout gills. He isn't joking around.

  • @theman6422
    @theman6422 5 років тому +185

    Cleric: oh I love the gods! They’re soooo cool and awesome!
    Aboleth: Ima end this man’s whole career

  • @simonh.4570
    @simonh.4570 5 років тому +777

    The aboleth and aaracokra are like arin and aaron in class

    • @Drekromancer
      @Drekromancer 5 років тому +13

      underrated

    • @Drekromancer
      @Drekromancer 5 років тому +8

      there can be only one

    • @jogiff
      @jogiff 5 років тому +3

      Not really, tons of names come before Arin. Abby, Alex, Andrew, Alan, Ajay ...

    • @guilhermerafaelzimermann4196
      @guilhermerafaelzimermann4196 5 років тому +13

      @@jogiff aboleth also comes before arin

    • @NiraSader
      @NiraSader 5 років тому +9

      Shut up A Aron

  • @John_Doe974
    @John_Doe974 5 років тому +74

    "You might know them from being the second entry in the Monster Manual", They used to be the first entry in the Monster Manual. Rassafrassin bird people stealing our first slot in the Manual.

  • @Shifterwizard
    @Shifterwizard 5 років тому +916

    ...if a child Aboleth retains all the memories of its parents, perfectly.... then wouldn't it also retain at least part of the memory of its parents conceiving it? From both sides of that encounter?

  • @MaximEyes
    @MaximEyes 5 років тому +613

    Ayy, I love Adventure Time! The Lich is a goldmine of menacing villain quotes!

    • @worthasandwich
      @worthasandwich 5 років тому +34

      Heres your gold star!

    • @KJ-ud9uf
      @KJ-ud9uf 5 років тому +2

      PhantomVirus yos

    • @MaximEyes
      @MaximEyes 5 років тому +18

      Is It Worth A Sandwich I have learned much from you, my teachers...

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 років тому +47

      "You are strong boy but, I am beyond strength. I am the end."

    • @MaximEyes
      @MaximEyes 5 років тому +31

      “These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army, and we will sail to a billion worlds.”

  • @minimmats
    @minimmats 5 років тому +419

    Additional snippet of lore: apparently their brains never stop growing in response to the storage of memories. The larger their brain grows, the bigger and longer they get.

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 5 років тому +11

      There's _got_ to be a cutoff point to that

    • @minimmats
      @minimmats 5 років тому +70

      @@benthomason3307 Supposedly not. An aboleth's brain extends down the length of the inside of its body instead of solely being encased in its skull. So as the brain grows, the body lengthens. I suspect that any kind of injury to an aboleth's brain (and by proxy the memories it holds) is a good way to earn its everlasting ire.

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 5 років тому +24

      @@minimmats but as new generations are continually born with more and more starting memories...

    • @minimmats
      @minimmats 5 років тому +33

      @Ben Thomason They are native to the elemental plane of water - there could be billions of ever expanding young aboleths in the depths of that inhospitable plane.

    • @benthomason3307
      @benthomason3307 5 років тому +14

      @@minimmats even if the aboleth themselves are ever-expaning even from generation to generation, the environments they live in are not. yes the plane of water is infinite, but the caves the aboleth live in are not.

  • @andreasmuller4172
    @andreasmuller4172 5 років тому +2564

    Sounds like aboleth propaganda, but ok.

  • @Qreaper
    @Qreaper 5 років тому +3324

    Aboleths dont sound that bad tbh
    This comment was made by the ultra mega gods

    • @triratna1397
      @triratna1397 5 років тому +29

      Mindflayer: PRIMITIVES~!!@!

    • @Mazaroth
      @Mazaroth 5 років тому +48

      3 memories have been transfered to your mindbanks.

    • @raymanx187
      @raymanx187 5 років тому +11

      ALL HAIL C'THULU!!!

    • @seiyikun1
      @seiyikun1 5 років тому +16

      Of course they rock! My big booty harem of bitches thinks the same as me.

    • @MrLocurito
      @MrLocurito 5 років тому +20

      aboleths are like working at a pizzeria and your boss gives you 1 pizza for free each week alongside your paycheck if you keep working

  • @cooldog8580
    @cooldog8580 4 роки тому +56

    Damn, Aboleths have so much *_big brain energy_* that they just strait up reincarnate themselves. Neat.

  • @zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba0
    @zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba0 5 років тому +191

    The deepest lore is spoken in deepspeech.

  • @dominicmanester8125
    @dominicmanester8125 5 років тому +321

    Im pretty sure reckless psionics gave consciousness to the fabric of the universe.

    • @chazzwozzio
      @chazzwozzio 5 років тому +37

      Sounds like something from warhammer 40k

    • @iliketurtles2531
      @iliketurtles2531 5 років тому +13

      Gods are just the psionic spells the aboleths made that are still going on.

    • @derrickmelton5844
      @derrickmelton5844 5 років тому +17

      Naw, gotta look at it through the lens of chaos theory...the universe existed in a state of pure chaos unbound by rules of nature, and as chaos started to first converge via strange attractors into a semblance of order, Aboleth's were born...then as further order arose, the planes and the gods came to exist as manifestations of the new natural laws of the universe that arose from this new order.
      Therefore the reason Aboleth's have the powers they do is that their existence predates natural laws that would prevent their existence entirely

    • @kylestanley7843
      @kylestanley7843 5 років тому +8

      @@derrickmelton5844 is that to say that the gods came into existence through a loophole in early nstural laws? I can get behind that.

    • @derrickmelton5844
      @derrickmelton5844 5 років тому +9

      @@kylestanley7843 sort of. When dealing with chaotic systems in mathematics there are types of functions that cause a convergence regardless of how chaotic the values can change based on the start data...these sorts of functions are called attractors (strange attractors if the convergence is fractal in nature)
      So if you think of the possible laws of the universe as being unset at the dawn of existence but then forming as convergence occurred, you could look at it in terms of the laws of the universe are formed as possibilities converge in some strange attractor. So the first convergence created Aboleth's and the basic laws of the universe, while additional convergences created the outer planes and the gods.
      To see convergence in action search the bifurcation of the logistic map...it really helps put the concept I am throwing out into perspective.

  • @burningbronze7555
    @burningbronze7555 5 років тому +458

    I mean if the aboliths were nicer and less mutation happy they would probably be well liked as wise sages but alas why they hurt others in there quest to kill the gods.

    • @lizardperson9648
      @lizardperson9648 5 років тому +81

      Because others try to hurt them in the quest made by the gods.

    • @pauldeddens5349
      @pauldeddens5349 5 років тому +86

      Its not entirely their fault, i would throw everything i have at some monster eel that slid out of the water
      They could put a caution tape fence around their lairs
      "WARNING, BIG ABOLETH, BUT IM PEACEFUL BROHAM"
      and that would fix all the issues

    • @NimhLabs
      @NimhLabs 5 років тому +21

      And at this point, I'm gonna share a Puffin Forest video xD [ ua-cam.com/video/lSqYeQHJbn0/v-deo.html ]

    • @lizardperson9648
      @lizardperson9648 5 років тому +20

      @@pauldeddens5349 so, they should do extra work to deal with your agressive prejudice? That's racist.

    • @pauldeddens5349
      @pauldeddens5349 5 років тому +2

      Good point

  • @GearheadPrime
    @GearheadPrime 5 років тому +34

    In D&D, the gods came in after the universe came into being, and got into fights with horrible things that had arisen naturally in the universe. This war was SO BAD that the gods were concerned that their fighting could actually destroy concepts.. so they started to fuse themselves TO concepts, to help prop them up while they waged war against super powerful horrible things across space and time.

  • @KossolaxtheForesworn
    @KossolaxtheForesworn 5 років тому +184

    I think R'lyeh is pronounced like something between cat trying to throw up and really sickly cough.

    • @godsigner
      @godsigner 5 років тому

      Riley /s

    • @jackdeily8615
      @jackdeily8615 5 років тому +4

      I think I would go with "Rih-Lee-Ah", or "Rhell-EI-Ia" or "Rrilh-Hiaia" or possibly "RÆllÆø"

    • @ethanpreslar6186
      @ethanpreslar6186 5 років тому +3

      I just say “Real Yay” quickly.

    • @anonymousoff-brand7538
      @anonymousoff-brand7538 5 років тому +1

      @ThatShadyEnder well, thats not entirely true. we know that the ' is supposed to be a guttural stop.

    • @RelativelyBest
      @RelativelyBest Рік тому

      Apparently it's "rool-yay", but as a kind of deep coughing.

  • @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606
    @justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 4 роки тому +40

    7:13 Ironically, that rumor makes both a lot of sense, and none. The mind flayer empire was erased from reality and history by the Giths, but that leaves Mind Flayers, the spawn of that empire, in a bit of a paradox, like the "Evolved Aboleth" theory.
    They both exist, but have no cause of them existing, and therefore cannot. The theory that Mind Flayers are evolved aboleths does, however, hold some decent water. No pun intended, what happens when a mind flayer brood pool is left alone, is that all the little brain-eater worms duke it out until one is the size of small subway train, and a bestial eel driven only by hunger. Sounds like a mindless aboleth. Aboleths want to destroy the gods and reclaim reality, so what if some of them already had a plan, enacted it, and it failed? The gods would punish them. Ripping them of their minds and self-defining eternal memory seems effective, yes? That explains why Mind Flayers are shameful of the grown babies. It reminds them of the glory they once had, and how the gods beat their a**. _TWICE._ The gith rend their empire from history, and therefore the other aboleths don't remember them. But then, why did the gods only punish some aboleths? Surely they know that the other ones still plot, yes? It makes sense, but it doesn't.

  • @safir2241
    @safir2241 5 років тому +104

    “I wonder what mind flayer poo is like”
    A dream. A really wacky dream that makes no sense.

  • @blixer8384
    @blixer8384 5 років тому +67

    This means Aboleths can clearly and viscerally remember their parents having sex.

    • @roguepsykerhaaker4813
      @roguepsykerhaaker4813 4 роки тому +7

      Their parent, and I think it'll mostly just be a bit sad

    • @melonhead238
      @melonhead238 4 роки тому +11

      It’ll be like watching your parent maturbate to themselves but it’s also you. Because you retain their memories and any feelings that are entails with it

  • @purplelaxy4976
    @purplelaxy4976 5 років тому +294

    4:20 as dark as a joke that would get this video flagged
    ME: so a light gray?

    • @kethos017
      @kethos017 5 років тому +25

      EXACTLY my thought, well more like glow in the dark, it's not like YT has no sense of humor, YT has a sense of humor and you best hope you share the exact type and allowed wording and reprogram your mind, memory and personality when the terms change

    • @gen1183
      @gen1183 5 років тому +11

      Maybe off-white?

    • @TheAlgorath
      @TheAlgorath 5 років тому +13

      Beige?

    • @Ezekiel_Allium
      @Ezekiel_Allium 5 років тому +10

      @@gen1183 like eggish/bone off white

    • @besquareorbethere2680
      @besquareorbethere2680 4 роки тому +2

      It's as dark as saying the timestamp out loud.

  • @HumbleMemeFarmer
    @HumbleMemeFarmer 5 років тому +37

    You know, as far as Eldritch Horrors go, I always thought Aboleths were the best to use. Smart, patient, and sufficiently terrifying, when sushi is mentioned.

  • @LegionAndTheLynx
    @LegionAndTheLynx 5 років тому +1001

    Ever think about doing a video on hags, more specifically weird magic?

    • @profanegaming2829
      @profanegaming2829 5 років тому +164

      Caden morton He probably doesn't know your mother-in-law.

    • @themumbotribe3923
      @themumbotribe3923 5 років тому +20

      Ooohhhhhh

    • @reek3939
      @reek3939 5 років тому +16

      @@profanegaming2829 Implying he is married.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 років тому +5

      Burn

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 5 років тому +8

      Oh shit he liked your comment and he likes hags (not "likes" hags, he just thinks they're cool). I see a good chance in him making basically hags.

  • @ComXDude
    @ComXDude 5 років тому +106

    Dude, that Lich quote you started with is great.

    • @thelastjarrikhan9930
      @thelastjarrikhan9930 5 років тому +1

      Ikr. I was just thinking, my dude, did you just...

    • @ieatsocks69
      @ieatsocks69 5 років тому +4

      thanks to world anvil for sponsoring yet another video

    • @dakodareid3807
      @dakodareid3807 5 років тому +1

      The Lich king speech from adventure time. It's great

  • @gabrielrussell5531
    @gabrielrussell5531 5 років тому +51

    3:31 "A Lawful Aberration?" Most are Lawful. Beholders are Lawful, Illithids are Lawful. Only Slaadi are Chaotic.

  • @rupture4rush736
    @rupture4rush736 5 років тому +106

    Very interesting. I didnt know about how an aboleth would transform their "employees".

  • @jobisTheWorst
    @jobisTheWorst 5 років тому +185

    Beholder= Imagination
    Aboleth= memories
    Mind flayers= emotions

  • @elwoodbrown7005
    @elwoodbrown7005 5 років тому +6

    I like your description of the Aboleths being the gods before the current gods. We used to describe the Far Realm as the contracting universe before this universe. The abberations are so strange because the in the contracting universe the laws of physics are breaking down into a real of pure thought. That is why the Far Realm was so had to get to and survive, it was time travel into negative time before there was time.

  • @aFallenWolf
    @aFallenWolf 5 років тому +48

    God I love these vids.
    I knew NOTHING about Aboleths before this vid. I figured they were just another big bad evil thing. This was video was insightful

  • @jaykay6222
    @jaykay6222 4 роки тому +6

    I love all the MtG imagery in these videos. Makes me feel clever to recognize a specific cards art. Thank you for helping me feel clever even though I'm not.

  • @SaetiStrakur
    @SaetiStrakur 5 років тому +4

    Your dry delivery of jokes is hilarious and nurturing in a manner which a mindflayer would enjoy!

  • @AndrewLuhring
    @AndrewLuhring 4 роки тому +1

    i want so badly for you to make a video about literally everything in dnd bc i can not for the life of me read the players handbook or the dms guide or the mm but i can eatch your videos for fucking hours. theyre so good. i love them. i hope they make you lots of money so you make more of them

  • @flemlius3507
    @flemlius3507 4 роки тому +26

    "Go visit your Grandmother"
    Me during Corona:
    "No. I don't think I will."

  • @Bighawkeye46
    @Bighawkeye46 5 років тому +2

    I watch these videos for the humor and info, but this one is going to help my current campaigns story arc immensely! Thanks for another great video!

  • @RandomlyQuestionsThings
    @RandomlyQuestionsThings 5 років тому +55

    What if: Aboleths, Beholders and Mind Flayers became one to defeat the Gods?

    • @NimhLabs
      @NimhLabs 5 років тому +26

      Okay, but one of those Mind Flayers is going to have to be a Swashbuckler

    • @RandomlyQuestionsThings
      @RandomlyQuestionsThings 5 років тому +5

      @@NimhLabs That's fine

    • @Greywander87
      @Greywander87 5 років тому +11

      The Abeholithid.
      Or did you not mean literally becoming one?

    • @RandomlyQuestionsThings
      @RandomlyQuestionsThings 5 років тому +4

      Greywander oooh, I mean becoming one creature my good friend! To defeat the gods on which they stole their rightful homes

    • @nevermakeruniversity7066
      @nevermakeruniversity7066 5 років тому +13

      They're qualities are all contradictory to working together. Beholders are fiercely independent. Though they have slaves, they are constantly anxious about others who could kill them. Mindflayers utilize a hive mind and would likely demand to implant all others with tadpoles which I can't imagine Aboleths and or Beholders being alright with in the slightest. Finally, Aboleths want domination of all others as they rule reality, and both Mind Flayers and Beholders hold slaves as they desire to rule as well. Point is, none of them would let the other control, or implant, them in order to work together "properly" in their minds. I believe they were intentionally designed this way.

  • @innesmuirgan7069
    @innesmuirgan7069 5 років тому +7

    "Aboleths probably stood out to you because they're the second monster in the monster manual."
    I feel called out.

  • @Dark_Tale_2077
    @Dark_Tale_2077 5 років тому +4

    Thanks to a certain UA-camr, every Aboleth now has a nerdy adorable voice in every campaign.

  • @cantharelluscibarius2244
    @cantharelluscibarius2244 5 років тому +1

    *Dietary habits of dwarves:* plump helmet+plump helmet wine+dwarven ale+whatever kinda cheese or meat they happen to find.

  • @thecrustyone1503
    @thecrustyone1503 5 років тому +5

    I love these basically videos, I always find monsters in d&d way more interesting than I thought, and I hope runesmith makes more.

  • @ethanotoroculus1060
    @ethanotoroculus1060 5 років тому +48

    I'm gonna make these things my main campaign villain.
    Also, 1:00 was a near perfect use of that reference.

  • @Plutoniumcontrolrod
    @Plutoniumcontrolrod 5 років тому +21

    Bruh, what if a mind flayer somehow captured an abolith
    All you can eat buffet

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 4 роки тому +1

      🤣🤣 no way in hell a mindflayer can topple an abolith

    • @mr.nutcracker8957
      @mr.nutcracker8957 4 роки тому +5

      The funny thing about mind players and aboleths is that both are kinda scared of the other, the entire mind player society is built around psionics, and Aboleths are unrivaled in that regard, so the mind flayers are intimidated in that regard
      The aboleths, as the video said, don't remember the Mind flayer empire, so they have a classical case of "fear of the unknown"

  • @TheMany42
    @TheMany42 3 роки тому +2

    Yup, you've convinced me. Next time I make a G.O.O. Warlock it's going to be an Aboleth Patron. It just makes sense. Not like they're really going to care as long as I honestly respect them which is easy to do for N or LN as I normally play them and he's getting the neat-o powers. Act as 'my masters' hand in the above-world to speak for them or investigate interesting things going foreword. Man, that fits my usual play style actually pretty easily.
    "SERVANT, READY AN APPROPRIATE LAIR FOR MY SPAWN."
    "Kiddo is ready to move out on their own? Sure! I can use Shatter and Eldritch Blasts to carve a channel and redirect this river into these abandoned Dwarven mines. Would it be possible to earn access to the Mold Earth cantrip or the Shape Stone or Stone Wall spells so I may do a better job for you? If not that's fine, you're the boss, but it'll take significantly longer to complete."

  • @arcanejazz
    @arcanejazz 5 років тому +3

    Runesmith, I have already subbed, but I want to say I LOVE YOU. You have such a great sense of humor and put these monsters into such a relatable context. You realize this makes you a Mystic Theurge with all good mental stats, right?

  • @lightsora34
    @lightsora34 5 років тому +1

    Thank you, just last week, told my players that they would be hunting an aboleth, and then you pout this out. One of my players also watch's your content, luckily he can can separate player and character knowledge, because all they knew before this was that the monster was higher CR than they could fight.

  • @jimbillyjenkims
    @jimbillyjenkims 5 років тому +16

    R'lyeh. I pronounce it Raleah.
    ... Which actually sounds like an amazing girl's name. I wish I thought of it two years ago.

  • @monstermoo4191
    @monstermoo4191 5 років тому +1

    3:09 genuinely made my day. I want to give a 30-year mortgage a whirl with your channel.

  • @verriganholmes8054
    @verriganholmes8054 5 років тому +118

    Dark as a joke that would get the video flagged? So they like pretty well lit areas, then?

    • @hitalosera4536
      @hitalosera4536 5 років тому +9

      All i can imagine now is a dope party full of giant alien eels

  • @reeddavies5235
    @reeddavies5235 2 роки тому +2

    Campain idea: a western themed adventure where the vilian is an aboleth that sits in a tiny pool called "the last oasis" and tries to bring back the ancient ocians

  • @DashunicornII
    @DashunicornII 5 років тому +12

    5:45 THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER

  • @Gregman40
    @Gregman40 5 років тому +1

    I love how you added the Mass Effect 2 audio for the mind flayers, brilliant! 😭🤣

  • @samfleming4527
    @samfleming4527 4 роки тому +3

    Runesmith: Go visit your grandma
    Me during Corona time: Yes sir

  • @mazdamundi1768
    @mazdamundi1768 3 роки тому +1

    Love how the skinless guy is just shrugging like "Whatever, I wasn't using that skin anyway."

  • @chesthoIe
    @chesthoIe 4 роки тому +6

    2020 update: Don't go visit Grandma, help her stay alive.

  • @QuestionableObject
    @QuestionableObject 5 років тому +1

    I made a custom patron with an obsession with knowledge and learning and experience and thanks to this video I now realize it was a space-aboleth all along.

  • @Yabuturtle
    @Yabuturtle 3 роки тому +3

    I had figured Mind Flayers were just from a different plane or dimension all together that is completely separate from the Aboleths. Hence why Aboleths don't remember anything about them because they were never there to begin with and only showed up way later.

  • @anonymousoff-brand7538
    @anonymousoff-brand7538 3 роки тому +2

    0:48 they stood out to me cause i played pathfinder. cause pathfinder aboleths had absorb a bunch of roles normally given to more copywritten aberrations(such as mindflayers).

  • @mouse5637
    @mouse5637 5 років тому +28

    4:20 But... that's any joke!

  • @spencerpyszczynski3778
    @spencerpyszczynski3778 5 років тому +1

    I love your videos. Funny, yet informative. I loved your video on the guilds of Ravnica. I would love to see you describe the factions in Planescape

  • @rickyrayVig
    @rickyrayVig 5 років тому +10

    A near immediate Lich King quote. Gain a point of Inspiration.

  • @arxtryannus1837
    @arxtryannus1837 5 років тому

    Had to watch with subtitles on and not once did it either pick up Aboleth correctly, or use the same word/s to fill the gap. 10/10. Also, great video and love the series. Keep it up sir.

  • @LoafusCramswell
    @LoafusCramswell 5 років тому +3

    Man this is a great series, also nice powerhour picture

  • @onebilliontacos3405
    @onebilliontacos3405 2 роки тому +2

    I was planning on playing as a an aboleth who grew up with out the knowledge of it past and eventually wound up in a city that contained five others along with a gigantic number of other misfits as well as gigantic number of your average playable race. This city would have been immense and would have contained everything from drow, pech, and genasi to surface elf, dwarf and humans (as long as they are kind), but now knowing just how powerful and important these fellas are, I’m. It sure if that would work.

  • @zenitram514
    @zenitram514 5 років тому +3

    I needed this for my campaign I'm working on. Thanks

  • @gianniavido2289
    @gianniavido2289 5 років тому

    The adventure time reference at the beginning was great, keep it up! 👍

  • @DDFreddi
    @DDFreddi 5 років тому +6

    I wonder. With the ability to gain all the memories of there ancestors when born, wouldn't the oldest Aboleth be also the weakest? He had the least lives lived.

  • @user-ft3jq5vi2l
    @user-ft3jq5vi2l 4 роки тому +1

    How to make an aberration:
    1. Grab an aspect of the human mind.
    2. Exagerate, twist or otherwise warp and alter it.
    3. ?
    4. Profit.

  • @TheDougliestDoug
    @TheDougliestDoug 5 років тому +6

    How did you know? I'm running an aboleth BBEG adventure starting on Sunday and was totally lost on how to use them! Thanks for the weirdly timely video.

  • @arandomzoomer4837
    @arandomzoomer4837 5 років тому +1

    The conclusion to the trilogy. I have been waiting long for this, thank you runesmith.
    You know, maybe Aboleths aren't so bad.

  • @CL30
    @CL30 5 років тому +5

    Ahahaha "greedy bird bitch" sums up how I talk about creatures in the MM
    Definitely going to go write an aboleth short campaign (or quest series). Thanks for the inspiration!

  • @nesspurr6931
    @nesspurr6931 5 років тому +1

    New campaign idea:
    There is a city at the center of a kingdom and it has a lake right in the middle. Turns out that the king and all the high ranking officials are controlled by an Aboleth in the lake, but you play through most of the campaign not knowing this while you accept requests and mission from the officials and the city functions as a defacto home base. The kingdom is actually fairly prosperous and rules fair, except that they hate any who worship a god, meaning that they’ll try to force out anybody in the party that does. The Aboleth isn’t forcing the kingdom to be evil because it views a righteous kingdom as the best way to achieve its goals

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 5 років тому

      you might make for a good GM.

  • @SladePate
    @SladePate 5 років тому +6

    Thank you Logan, very cool!

  • @RodrigoCML7
    @RodrigoCML7 5 років тому +1

    Man the Aboleth in BG2 was one of favorite parts of the game. I always remember him/her/it fondly

  • @samoelcerv4798
    @samoelcerv4798 5 років тому +11

    Wow 3 gods of mind
    Emotion
    Imagination
    Memory

    • @rockclanhawkstar1454
      @rockclanhawkstar1454 3 роки тому

      Goal!
      Help beholders and illithid attain god status on par with Aboleths and become true gods of the mind!
      Then maybe also have a god race dedicated to the living souls.

  • @tomsutton954
    @tomsutton954 4 роки тому

    I have now started my Aboleth campaign, thanks Logan!

  • @Klespyrian
    @Klespyrian 5 років тому +3

    I see you with that MTG Damnation art

  • @Bdakkon
    @Bdakkon 4 роки тому +1

    So my Elf Paladin encountered and Aboleth in Tomb of Annihilation. We did NOT get along. (Ended up 1v1 ing him back to the Plane of Elemental Water)

    • @Gep_05
      @Gep_05 3 роки тому

      Sup fellow guilty gear fan!

  • @Randomdudefromtheinternet
    @Randomdudefromtheinternet 5 років тому +3

    It would be interesting to see a kingdom ruled by an Aboleth.

  • @lunarscorpio3987
    @lunarscorpio3987 5 років тому +1

    The Lovecraft references make my heart so happy.

  • @milliondollarmistake
    @milliondollarmistake 5 років тому +3

    As someone who has never played DnD I'm surprised at the amount of aliens and shit that appear

  • @artzanator
    @artzanator 5 років тому +1

    The white dots made the nipplys stand out more

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 5 років тому

      That was part of the joke.

    • @artzanator
      @artzanator 5 років тому

      @@arandomzoomer4837 like the pasties on twitch

  • @amitgabay3721
    @amitgabay3721 5 років тому +9

    7:35 assuming direct control

  • @quynlanvuorensyrja5484
    @quynlanvuorensyrja5484 5 днів тому

    I’ve just had an amazing idea: aboleths consider fingers and toes to be just as weird and gross as we consider writhing tendrils

  • @RandomNerd.
    @RandomNerd. 5 років тому +6

    Dope shit mang

  • @kodytiffany5686
    @kodytiffany5686 5 років тому +2

    They are one of my favs for a reason...
    that reasons name is carl.
    Aboleth are great arch foes that you can always claim that they are at fault because they plan everything; or at least could.

  • @dresetfrostwood8449
    @dresetfrostwood8449 4 роки тому +3

    Wait the can't die but the can reproduce. The way to beat the gods lays in there numbers

    • @hdtin167
      @hdtin167 4 роки тому

      no because the gods are powered by the natural world and Ao the overgod, they better represent the world at the moment, and I doubt The Overgod would let them take over the world, or at least kill the gods. if you want me you can research it on the dnd fandom wikipage.

  • @bardssinisterstories2607
    @bardssinisterstories2607 5 років тому +1

    I don't see aboleths as evil after this. I just see them as god hating space eel banana gods.

  • @martinrking
    @martinrking 5 років тому +3

    hi 🙂 as a young teen, the aboleth in Baldur’s Gate 2 was rad. the DnD people have made a lot of strange creatures but the aboleth is one of the best imo

  • @beastboy0078
    @beastboy0078 5 років тому +1

    Thank you! I feel like you are trolling us or the stuff INSIDE your "Basically" videos. And it's funny as fuck. And fun to watch.

  • @vortextion1088
    @vortextion1088 5 років тому +4

    So what would happen if a god was "dreamed into reality" that sought justice for Aboleths. (could be a interesting adventure idea).

  • @dmon007
    @dmon007 5 років тому +1

    They sound like a nice boss. If I had to be an evil underling, I'd choose these guys~

  • @joelwriter9583
    @joelwriter9583 5 років тому +4

    I’m visiting my grandma right now.

  • @gabrielhermes1627
    @gabrielhermes1627 4 роки тому +1

    So, aboleths are just the dnd version of scp 3000

  • @Mazaroth
    @Mazaroth 5 років тому +6

    Wait, mindflayers are the reapers of D&D?
    Where's Commander Shepard when you need one?

  • @cdevans97
    @cdevans97 Рік тому

    "they must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him"
    -Abby Leth