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boards 06-29-07, 12:19 AM	I was rereading the Riftwar Saga and one of the abilities of the Valheru was to kill with a mind blast. The elder vampires of Anne Rice books have a similar capability, but was wondering if it exists in FR? The obvious parallel would be the mind blast of the Illithids, but it causes confusion not death. 1) Is there a Psionic ability that augments the mind blast so that it kills rather than stuns/confuses? 2) How is Illithid pronounced I-llith-id or Illi-thid or some other way?
wtf_thats_my_head 06-29-07, 11:45 AM	there are mind blasts used by high level psions that can kill by turning the other person's brain to mush.say it ithild or mind flayer
captaincarot 06-29-07, 11:50 AM	I was rereading the Riftwar Saga and one of the abilities of the Valheru was to kill with a mind blast. The elder vampires of Anne Rice books have a similar capability, but was wondering if it exists in FR? The obvious parallel would be the mind blast of the Illithids, but it causes confusion not death. original AD&D mind blast used to turn your brain to mush if you got hit hard enough by it back in the early 1980's. it made the illithids much more dangerous. basically because if you didn't have a psionicist in the party to feed to them while you ran away.they fried the lot of you in seconds.
wtf_thats_my_head 06-29-07, 12:16 PM	so the brain mushing power still around
captaincarot 06-29-07, 12:19 PM	so the brain mushing power still around not being an owner of the psionics handbook i wouldn't know sorry
wtf_thats_my_head 06-29-07, 04:16 PM	wait wait wait wait well i am getting a carrot to kill your kind for not owning this book>< thats ok i think they do
boards 06-29-07, 05:38 PM	Thanks
wtf_thats_my_head 06-29-07, 06:53 PM	no prob and if you like psions and psion spell carft you may check out house of the serpent alot of psiony stuff in that books
runestar 06-29-07, 10:44 PM	It could simply have been a mindthrust power or some variant.