Villithid

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

V villithid (No tile)
Difficulty	21
Attacks	Weapon 1d6 physical, tentacles 1d8 drains blood, 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, sleep, poison
A villithid: can fly. can survive underwater. does not 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. A villithid is an undead male mind flayer that has become a vampire and taken on the traits of vampires, including their regeneration, weakness to silver and resistances such as the resistance to death magic shared with other undead. The vilithid is considered a lord to his kind.

A villithid has a weapon attack, a tentacle attack that drains blood, and a second tentacle attack that drains intelligence like other mind flayers. Villithids possess cold resistance, sleep resistance and poison resistance.

Generation

Randomly generated villithids are always created hostile. They are not a valid form for normal polymorph.

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 cannot create spawn like other illithids, require both fresh blood and fresh brains to survive, are barely intelligent, and are hated and feared by typical illithid society like other 'deviant' illithids. 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, attempted to create a creature powerful enough to overthrow her great uncle.

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