It makes me pleased that Qyburn would freak out most illithidae.
The Many are descended from Illithids, but they're very much their own unique being, they are more than different enough, to be classified as a new species, that simply has Illithids as their ancestors.
AFAIK we've only had one research project with large-scale human testing. Xor handled it, and it was about analysing the consequences of long-term mind-control of various stripes.
Oh, okay. I thought you were referring to something involving exploiting mass mind control, not a study into the medical impact of being subject to it.
I would have you know that setting people on fire is a perfectly respectable thing to do. If it was a bad thing to do, then why would the most beloved Imperator be doing it regularly?
I would say they're significantly more different than that, a brainstealer dragon is basically an Illithid with a dragon body, it still eat brains, it still has the personality of an illithid, so it's pretty much just a powerful illithid, with a bit of dragon mannerism such as hoarding.
Isn't setting a large area on fire in the opposite direction from an ongoing blaze a good way to get it to go out?
That may have been a bad example.
To be fair, it's been ages since we threw around things like Searing, Agonizing Firebrand. High-level D&D combat is pretty bland and same-ish, with a few specific options being just so much better then the alternatives.That may have been a bad example.
It still got my point across though didn't it? We were studying the long term impacts of mind control so that we could work to mitigate them. Developing medical techniques for healing the damage something causes isn't the same a project to weaponize it.
But you don't use enchantments for that control, so the point still stands.
I just wanted to point out that the argument about using mass-enchantment was never had properly, because the amoral part of the thread just flatly saw no real utility in doing it.
This. Enchanting people and expecting things to go swimmingly is dumb. That's a recipe for disaster.
Well, there is one use: magical drugs. Mood alterations are part of the school, so, for example, both depression medication and a LSD analogue could come out of the school.
There are also plenty of medical uses for it. Enchantment based analgesics would be much less risky that chemical ones for people not flat out immune. Some kinds of mental health issues would benefit as well.
Yeah. Definitely some applications worth looking into. But nothing nearly as easy and straightforward as making smelters that need no fuel or household goods that won't break when you work them over with a sledgehammer.
An item Mechanicus Mind and Focusing Chant (also know as a Student's Pendant of Lesser Ritalin) might help with that, since memorization is an int based check.
