#brainstealer

[akiartspace]

Here's Qir the Sea Monarch! they're a brainstealer sea serpent/sea dragon ancient(not yet old enough to be a wyrm) whose psionics are completely focused on Hydrokinesis and Atmokinesis(storm control/creation) They're also a 2nd gen brainstealer, which means they are the hatchling of two artificially created brainstealers. Since these dragons can procreate between themselves and with other dragons producing weird mutants wyrmlings according to the dragon magazine where they were expanded upon. They're friendly with illithids, sometimes (they got a big attitude for being such a small brainstealer)

[the-weeping-dawn]

Failed at no mtg cards until the ff set.

I was rewarded with Us, Gerald*, and most importantly, Gale. Which is how I keep failing an easy task.

*Brainstealer Dragon will always be considered the now recurring one from my spelljammers campagain Gerald. Because as mentioned he's only recurring for the fatal mistake of naming him Gerald when begged for a name

[relentlessgrief]

Thinking about how two weeks ago in my last dnd session with Connor, we had to fight a brainstealer dragon under the city of Waterdeep BECAUSE A ROGUE TADPOLE INFECTED OUR DRAGON FRIEND

[baldursgateconceptart]

Brainstealer Dragon

Art for Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate

Art by Brent Hollowell

[jaesmart]

Wedding Centerpiece Dragons: 11/11

The final dragon! We encountered Samnallathanaddahn the sapphire dragon when she petitioned us for help in the World Serpent Inn with a problem that required a bit of world-hopping. In D&D lore, each dragon that has ever lived has had a unique echo on every world of the Material Plane. Samnallathanaddahn, whose home world was Faerûn, had felt her mysterious link with her echo in Eberron go dark. She tasked our party with finding out exactly what had gone wrong. To our horror, we discovered her Eberron counterpart had caught a bad case of ceremorphosis…she had become a brainstealer dragon.

[markrosewater]

You have already reprinted some Universes Beyond cards as is. The obvious ones are the enemy signet lands in the OTJ commander decks. You also did Wreck and Rebuild and for the people that might count the D&D sets alongside UB Brainstealer Dragon were both also given magic versions in the OTJ commander decks as well.

FYI

[aberrantundead]

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Connor is an Undying Warlock with a neutral good alignment. Connor’s pronouns are he/they. They are classified as undead, aberration, and humanoid. They are 470 years old. He stands at 7 feet tall, or 2.13 meters. His weight is around 80-110 lbs (this includes the tentacles). Connor is intersex, non-binary, and pansexual with demiromantic tendencies. They are polyamorous and love being loved and loving others.

Connor as a character is unorthodox to the fullest extent, as they are largely homebrew. He is in a level 1-20 campaign ran by @skeletone that has been ongoing since 2019, and is expected to be ongoing for years to come. This character for me has been an ultimate expression as a coping mechanism for my relationship with death, fear of outer space (with Connor practically being an alien), and an expression of queerness that I, as a queer person, enjoy exploring. In a way, this character is a self portrait of major parts of myself.

Connor’s personality snapshot: expressive, open, self revealing, loves/hates large parties, loud, social, outgoing, does not like social isolation, assertive, positive, always busy, likes to fit in but also likes to stand out, enjoys leadership, brutally honest, trusting, optimistic, desires attention, dominant, aggressive, attachment prone, wants to be understood, lonely, melancholic, self loathing

Currently, Connor and their friends have saved the city of Waterdeep. They have struck alliances with many individuals such as Renaer Neverember, Volothamp Geddarm, Jarlaxle Baenre and Laerel Silverhand, while dealing with The Xanathar, mindflayers (most notably Nihiloor), devils, the Cassalanters, and Manshoon. Recently, they have ventured out to the North to successfully kill Auril who relentlessly was wailing on parts of Toril with her unforgiving winter weather. Auril’s demise was accomplished with help of another god’s Chosen, who took Auril’s divine spark and corrupted it with their own god’s essence. With Auril’s inflicted weather now removed, Connor and their friends can travel the oceans she froze to get to a Golden Forge that belongs to a golden dragon underneath Waterdeep. The group promised the golden dragon they would help reclaim it from another dragon who overtook it.

As of late, the golden dragon the Five have struck a pact with, Aurelius, had become infected with a mindflayer tadpole and shed its face and skin to become a brainstealer dragon named Placidjurax, which the Five had to promptly put down. Laerel wants the Xanathar and Nihiloor eradicated, to which Connor and company eagerly agreed to. It is because of them through a long string of events prior that Aurelius got infected.

Overall, the big plot for The Five is that they’re on a mission to collect the idols of Toril’s gods to restore the deteriorating weave. The sky is falling, literally. This need to collect the idols will require them to venture around the planet, including the use of the Golden Forge to travel to multiple dimensions.

Connor’s in-depth information is below, and while I wish I could divulge all of Connor’s secrets, some of my teammates are on this site and are mutuals and in general are aware of the existence of this space, so I can only unveil right now what’s been given in game.

Current revealed facts about Connor in Legends of the Five:

• Connor once lived life as a human before. He was born as a human. Lived and loved as one. Connor’s previous name in life before taking up the name Connor was Alistair Reiter.

• Alistair Reiter had a wife, a child, and ran a church dedicated to Lathander. He was a priest.

• Present day Connor has a phobia of horses. This pertains to the fact that Alistair’s/Connor’s daughter in life was trampled to death by a horse.

• In hopes of trying to resurrect his dead daughter, Alistair dabbled into unknown forces of necromancy and made a pact with a mysterious entity in order to channel said necromancy.

• Learning this necromancy allowed him to attach another pair of limbs to himself amid his experimentation.

• Alistair’s hubris is what led to his death and downfall. Such is what happens when you play with forces of life and death and try to play God.

• For some years after his death and his body long since decayed, Alistair’s dead body was animated by a mysterious force and was sent on a killing spree against any wandering adventurers before the Spellplague deactivated him. His body was then put in a crypt, and wrapped in golden chains.

• Alistair was resurrected by a necromancer who found him in the crypts years later. Alistair then takes the name Connor out of a desire to not affiliate with his wretched past. Symbolism of a clean slate and starting over. The necromancer that resurrected him ended up being a short lived lover and partner until they both split amid an argument. Only recently has Connor been able to get over their ex. His ex is Innis Pyrescribe, who belongs to my DM skeletone.

• Connor finds out that he cannot die, and any time he is destroyed, he often reforms hours later. Whatever force keeps him animated, is clearly by a higher power—likely his warlock patron. Using dispel magic on him also temporarily deactivates him.

• Connor is part of a hivemind that has origins from the Far Realm.

• Connor has a sibling (or technically another him, if they’re a hivemind) named Exodus, who breached the material plane during a summoning ritual for a Far Realm entity named Auc’thil’une—with Exodus as the emissary of Auc’thil’une. He changed from an incomprehensible entity into a human with tentacles in his eye sockets that he hides behind shades.

• Similarly, Connor is actually the mass of tentacles inside of the skeleton that was once his when he had flesh.

•Connor was born in the body of a human and lived as one—Exodus did not. Exodus finds himself disgruntled and disgusted at Connor’s empathy and love for this world, and at Connor’s developed humanity. Connor is an anomaly among aberrations for this reason. In no way should an aberration have humanity. • Connor’s golden chains apparently keep him sentient, and when they are removed, Connor loses all sense of self and begins to indiscriminately attack anything living, plagued by a feeling of hunger. These chains seem to belong a small organization of necromancers called The Order of the Golden Chain. They were often used by necromancers on their undead. Connor is considered a rogue undead with no master/necromancer controlling him. • Connor finds out that they have a suppressed appetite—and it’s a desire for living flesh. Dead flesh does not satisfy whatever dark primal hunger sits inside Connor. This rightfully horrifies Connor.

[dicaxasinus]

im so st trinapilled what if i wrote about sewer princess and her 2 big brothers morgott and mohg and how much she loves everyone including the frenzied flame merchants and then everything goes to shit once miquella shows up and brainsteals mohg

[saturnssleepystargirl]

I got to play magic with my dad for the first time in over a decade

That’s it, he stole one of my win conditions and made a 30/30 with it, and I hit face with a flying brainstealer dragon to win the game.

I’m so happy I could cry rn. And did.

I love my dad, everyone who says my queerness is fatherless behavior can fuck right off I love my dad so much.

[bigscaryd]

I'm catching up after some time away and the Doctor is just like "this thing seems persistent and resilient, let's lead it to a full-scale Dalek attack, see how it does;" "oops looks like another covert brainstealing invasion of Earth must be Tuesday;" "uhoh invaders from a spacetime with totally different geometry and physics who can't be meaningfully communicated with, time to yell at them and throw them out and not worry about it unless they come back."

thing I love about dr who is it just doesn't give a shit about that "power scaling" stuff it just tells stories. like yeah satan himself is a character in this show. for 2 episodes in the middle of a season. he never appears again. there are dozens of completely forgotten one-off villains who could absolutely mop the floor with any faction in the 40k universe. we've got cosmic horrors who can write you out of time instantly. we've got a guy who built an infinite mausoleum from the bones of every alternative version of himself. we've got a dude who was buried alive in a state of constant suffocation and rebirth for like, hundreds of years. and for every one of those there are a million episodes where the villain is like. a tiny little guy who couldn't hurt a fly but is somehow just as hard for the doctor to deal with. but nobody in fandom really cares about that and nobody at all really acknowledges who in conversations about like "who's the most powerful faction in fiction" cause like. that's not what the show is about. it's a cosmic horror universe that's indifferent to the cosmic horror. and I think that's beautifu;l

[samwise-gamg33]

The Obscure Mind Flayer Dragon - Brainstealer - Monster of the Week - Du...

[horademagic]

Dragão Ladrão de Cérebros/ Brainstealer Dragon

Tipo de criatura: Dragão Horror

Custo de mana: 2 pretas + 5 de qualquer cor = 7 no total

6/6 de Poder e Resistência

Por que ela é interessante? Essa criatura tem voar, vantagem sob oponentes sem voar ou alcance para se defender. No começo da sua etapa final você vai exilar a carta do topo do grimório de cada oponente, então você poderá jogar aquelas cartas exiladas enquanto elas permanecerem exiladas. Se você conjurar uma mágica dessa forma, você pode inclusive usar mana de qualquer cor para conjurá-la, como se tudo fosse tanto faz. Toda vez que uma permanente que não seja um terreno que um oponente possuir entrar no campo de batalha sob seu controle, coisa fácil pensando no primeiro efeito que ele mesmo proporciona, aquele oponente ainda perderá uma quantidade de pontos de vida igual ao valor de mana daquela permanente. Sim, você entendeu certo, rouba as cartas dos oponentes e ainda dá dano quando escolher conjurá-las.

Preço da carta: em torno de 35,00 até 65,00

Disponível em Português

Link: https://www.ligamagic.com.br/?view=cards/card&card=Brainstealer%20Dragon&aux=Drag%C3%A3o%20Ladr%C3%A3o%20de%20C%C3%A9rebros

Até a próxima postagem, Ulli e Thiago

[reborn-spoilers-cards]

[OTC] [EN] [0127] Brainstealer Dragon [5BB] [MV7] [RAR] [BLA] [CRE] [Dragon] [Horror] [6/6] [Joshua Raphael] [2024]

[darleksaresupreme]

Elder Brain Dragon. I really disliked this monster when it was introduced because it seemed like it was replacing the brainstealer dragon but eventually I realised that was my anti-5e bias showing and if I’d seen a Dragon with a giant Brain on its back in an AD&D or 3.5 book I’d love it.

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[relentlessgrief]

"I will never be free. I am bound to my patron. I know you know that."

"I care about you. I never want what I have for anyone else. This is your chance to be free. Seizing it is the only option."

The aberration comes close to the vampire, before placing a hand on the other's shoulder.

Connor gives a gentle, loving squeeze.

"I've fought a goddess before. A brainstealer dragon. Even been to different dimensions. Encountered Strahd himself. We'll get you through this. There is no doubt in my mind. A vampire such as Cazador is nothing compared to the legendary one in Ravenloft."

The sentiment was appreciated, but Astarion wondered if Connor understood the full length of what he meant with that. There was something else there, heavier, knotted so tight in his throat even the vampire himself couldn’t have hoped to untangle it.

Maybe he never would.

Taut shoulders sagged and a sigh caught in his throat, as if surrender came easier than admission. Whatever this was, it wasn’t something the vampire felt certain of– even less something he would so openly admit. Not to Connor. Perhaps not to anyone.

“I…” Astarion trailed off, weighing the moment like a balance tipped too far on the losing end of a bargain. Instead, the vampire settled with what felt the simplest. “...I fail to see why,” he wasn't even certain if he wanted to know why. “But thank you.”

And just like that, Astarion hoped to fold the conversation. Seal it shut before it could venture any further.

[red-dragon-archfiend]

So I’ve been looking at the Forgotten Realms wiki’s list of “dragonkind”, and can I just say what the HECK was going on with dragons in 2e and 3e