Villithid

V villithid (No tile)
Difficulty	21
Attacks	Weapon 1d6 physical, tentacles 1d8 vampiric, tentacles 1d4 drains intelligence

V villithid (No tile)
Difficulty	21
Attacks	Weapon 1d6 physical, tentacles 1d8 vampiric, tentacles 1d4 drains intelligence
Base level	16
Base experience	623
Speed	14
Base AC	-8
Base MR	50
Alignment	-20 (chaotic)
Frequency (by normal means)	0 (Not randomly generated)
Genocidable	No
Weight	1450
Nutritional value	400
Size	medium
Resistances	cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance, death resistance
A villithid: can fly. can survive underwater. does not need to breathe. has a head, a couple of arms, and a torso. regenerates HP quickly. is poisonous to eat. does not eat. (*) is not a valid polymorphable form. is undead. is a lord to its kind. is male. is normally generated hostile. can follow you to other levels. is nasty. is strong. can pick up weapons and food. can be seen through infravision. never leaves a corpse. resists death magic. is a vampire.

A villithid, V, is a type of monster that appears in notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack. The villithid is an undead male illithid that has become a vampire: they retain the intelligence-draining abilities of mind flayers, but also take on vampiric traits such as their enhanced regeneration, weakness to silver, and a resistance to death magic and life-draining that is also shared with other undead. The villithid is considered a lord to his kind.

A villithid has a weapon attack, a vampiric tentacle attack, and a second tentacle attack that can drain intelligence. Villithids possess cold resistance, sleep resistance, poison resistance, drain resistance, and death resistance.

Generation

Villithids are not randomly generated, and normally-created ones are always hostile. They are not a valid polymorph form or genocide target.

Several villithids can be encountered by Illithanachronounbinders on the Illithanachronounbinder quest.

A villithid never leaves a corpse upon death.

Origin

Vampiric illithids, also knowns as vampire mind flayers, originate from Dungeons & Dragons, where they are portrayed as more 'feral' than typical illithids—they are barely intelligent and cannot create spawn like other illithids, while being hated and feared by typical illithid society like other 'deviant' illithids, and as vampires they require both fresh blood and fresh brains to survive.

In-universe, their origin is unclear: one possible origin is given in the 5th Edition Ravenloft adventure Thoughts of Darkness, where they are described as "either the result of a Mind Flayer tadpole infecting a vampiric host or a host that becomes a vampire before the tadpole fully converts them". Another source indicates that Lyssa von Zarovich, a descendant of Strahd von Zarovich, may have created the villithid during her attempts to bring forth a creature powerful enough to overthrow her great-uncle.

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