Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Aboleth Secrets
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This is part 1 of 2 videos on the Aboleths, the next part scheduled for release on Saturday. Let me know if you enjoyed the video.
If you want to know how Aboleths reproduce, how their brain work, how their circulatory system and digestive system work then make sure to stay tuned for the next video xD I got that and more! We'll talk about their mind controlling abilities, how they breathe without lungs, and what's the most sensitive part of an Aboleth's body :O
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Imagine the shock to abeloth culture if a high level wizard used a wish spell to give one of them massive amnesia
There is an official campaign that has one get a split personality and one of the personalities is scared of the rumors it hears about itself. So it swims around scared of running into this ancient monster.
@@thejezuit4048 Everyone loves Whimsy! Not the orher one so much.
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*beings with a perfect memory that dates back to the very origin of creation*
*intelligence 18*
LITERALLY THEY HAVE A HIGHER STRENGTH THAN INTELLIGENCE AND I'M MAD
wouldn't memory be Wis?
@@Mr0901 No.
Intelligence represents "information knowledge", while wisdom represents "application knowledge". That's why in 3.5 Intelligence allows for a larger amount of skill points as you "know" the theory behind how to do several things, but you still depend on your physical or mental fitness to accomplish stuff.
Yet Wisdom is a "how to do things" attribute, just as seeing and observing are different in the spot skill (or perception for non-hardcore DMs), thus being keyed off Wisdom, as an example.
Wisdom in D&D is your ability to intuit and perceive. Wisdom saves are used to notice something is of about you or your environment. Wisdom skills are used to notice things about others or your environment. Wisdom is also the caster stat for those who derive their powers from the world around them or from gods.
To quote the book on wisdom: "Wisdom reflects how attuned you are to the world around you and represents perceptiveness and intuition."
@@Mr0901 BiscuitCookie's right. As the old saying goes: intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad.
And charisma is being able to convince someone to eat a fruit salad with tomatoes.
@@Erick7Greenday in short
Int is book smarts
Wis is street smarts
"Before there was time, before there was anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing, there were monsters." The Lich, adventure time.
Defence Council: I would like to strike the testimony of the witness.
Judge: Request denied, the Aboleth has perfect memory, it's testimony stands.
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Woooo more D&D! It’s interesting how the Aboleth and Kraken has ties to the gods or before them and other worlds aside from Abir-Toril. Makes you wonder how big the oceans are when it comes to the creatures. As for the Far Realm itself, well... hopefully it stays far for the sake of the multiverse.
The Aboleths may not be pre-gods. I'm not quite sure why everyone just trusts the worlds of self obsessed genocidal fish monsters. Here's another idea: They were created by some ancient water primordial. It explains their elemental nature, their hatred of the gods, and the age of the Aboleths. I personally favor this explanation. The Aboleth domination messes with several different events. First of all, it just doesn't jive with the Obyrith, the original demons and evil creatures. Second of all, we know that Dragons existed during the Dawn War, thanks to the death of Io, (Some vowel then an O,) the original dragon god, of whom Bahamut and Tiamat are the children of. And dragons were not slaves. So, the Aboleths must have been pre-dawn war. The issue with that is... Well, it's called the Dawn War for a reason. It was the first *anything* beyond Ao, the creator god. There's also the Mind Flayer Empire, and the Spell Weavers.
Space likely doesn't mean what space means in our realm, hence how one can kind of easily access the Far Realm by dreaming. Due to the Far Realm's nature, it's not actually 'far' in relation to going there
@@firetarrasque4667 they also have complete belief in their memory but that is what is most vulnerable about them. Their memories can be tampered as they only keep it in their heads. Who is to say they actually existed at all. Kept in existence by their memory says, by what others say, but nothing more.
Ah, don't worry about it. What seems scary to 300 million humans spread across thousands of nation states is a lot less scary to several quintillion humans living another 10,000 or so years in the future on a dyson sphere with access to an energy budget to disassemble the planet in a matter of months. These creatures are all about living far longer than the normal DnD races, but they accomplish nothing in the timescales it takes humans to go from shit farmers to ecumenopolis builders.
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KokoroNoSama I mean it’s been a year
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Lovecraftian abomination that predates the gods themselves.
CR: 10.
I don't know whether to be disappointed with the Aboleth or even more scared of stronger monsters.
Power scaling in DnD is all over the place. Though, I don't see an aboleth being able to take down a tarrasqe or something
Well, they predate the gods as a community, as a race. For example, a common human not trained in any style of combat might have a very low cr, maybe 1, that would be compared to a cr 10 not trained aboleth, maybe their soldiers or assassins are more powerful
@@AraujoEnrique I'd rather put a cr 1/6 for a random human without training
Think of it like the classic superman VS batman.
Sure, if you put an aboleth naked up against a tarrasque with no preparation it will lose.
But an aboleth in the wild, who knows the tarrasque is coming? The tarrasque should stand no chance at all.
In a straight up fight. Easy to deal with. In it's lair, and with a DM who understands the Aboleth, may as well be dealing with an angry god.
The best Aboleth encounters mean that you never actually come face to face with the Aboleth.
I'm so happy you're doing DnD content again! I've missed it so much! Now we just need that pastor music and the unmatched positivity
Just happened across this channel and have been enjoying ur content. But I watched the mind flayer vids and was like," where's the one on the elder mind??" I'd love to see that vid, hope u make it.
This year I DMed a one-shot which involved Aboleths. Basicaly, the adventurers frustrated one of the Aboleth's plans to conquer the North, then the creature captured a friend of them, after that he designed a whole dungeon underwater and baited the players to rescue their friend. They just made it out alive because the cleric used mass healing word during the escape. Fun fact is he did not had it prepared, but I, innocently, assumed he had.
If this all happened only 30,000 years from the current date and the Aboleths have been around for tens of millions of years, then really the Aboleths would see the races and the gods as just temporary things.
they ruled longer than most races existed, this'd likely still feel like a sudden and abrupt crash to their seemingly endless empire
"This whole religion thing is just a fad, they'll get over it eventually."
"Everything was better before the gods hit the reset button again. This is the fifth time!"
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"For all of their might they never expected that which actually defeated them.......RELIGION"
Religion is a great cancer on our world too.
@@Welther47 nothing wrong with religion. The problem is extremists.
@@dalethompson6853 You can't have a little bit of it without extremes. And there is plenty wrong with religion
@@dalethompson6853 Religion is arrogant enough to claim the answer to everything. It's naíve and misleading
This makes me want to RP a firbolg who's clan drinks aboleth blood and retains the memory of hundreds of generations of my firbolg ancestors: i would love and miss people i'd never met, and carry grudges eons of years old
Seems very Lovecraft esque, interesting.
That's something interesting to think about; The fact that the Lovecrafian gods and horrors that we know and love are not only existent in the D&D universe, but they even left their mark in multiple ways (the far realm, aboleths, ect.).
Most top level lore for all of the greatest fantasy settings reaches for Lovecraft. Even settings like Game of Thrones; everything that's on the edges of what is known goes straight to lovecraft in that fiction.
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You have really interesting content! This is really useful for any DM to add depth to their campaigns, homebrew or not.
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I feel like everything time I think I know what D&D's most ancient creature is another bigger *fish* takes the spot.
There's always a bigger fish lol
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I adore Aboleths from a lore perspective. Shame it was just such an underwhelming fight for my party, even in its lair, protected by its Sahuagin slaves. If you're smart enough to stay away from the water and have a couple of rangers/casters, the fight becomes fairly trivial.
it's like, you're fucking fantasy man, it's not a real challenge in the first place
Sounds more like an unskilled DM then anything else
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I'm very late to the party, but I love the clips from Darkest Dungeon that you sprinkled in there!
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Yes, at last! Great to see the return of the D&D videos as they were my favourite videos of yours, despite being a very long-time viewer. Does this mean that the long-awaited sequel to the mind flayer video will happen? You said you planned a video on the elder brain, but it never happened. I'm still waiting 😂
EDIT: I made this comment before watching it to the end. Seems like you planned it out all along. I'll be looking forward to seeing the next video!
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This makes me want to RP a firbolg who's clan drinks aboleth blood and
retains the memory of hundreds of generations of my firbolg ancestors: i
would love and miss people i'd never met, and carry grudges eons of
years old
Firbolethg
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I've watched your D&D lore videos multiple times already and I am glad, that you are back at makingg them. I've never played D&D myself (aside from Baldur's Gate) but I find the lore of the world absolutly fascinating! :D
I do ask myself though, whether the first of the Aboleths is still alive, since he sounded like a beeing even the gods wouldn't be able to defeat... but maybe that's one of the things, you'll talk about in the second part, so I'm looking forward to it! :)
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The 5E MM doesn't say how you can fully kill an aboleth unless the "kill it on its 'native plane'" (the Elemental Plane of Water?) thing applies. Now, 5:03 gives us a regular time for reproduction of 5 years for an adult aboleth. Aboleth say they predate the gods, so they've been around for a long time. But if you put all that together, doesn't that mean we should be overrun by aboleths by now?
Unless the gods traveled to the EPoW or did some other crazy powerful stuff, the aboleths the gods killed when they overthrew them from ruling the Prime Material Plane should have just come back without their population truly decreasing. The depths and oceans of Abeir-Toril and other D&D Prime worlds must be teeming with aboleths to the point that it's odd that they're able to hide at all. Otherwise, something is just not adding up.
How long does it take for an aboleth to mature to adulthood? How long does it take for a slain aboleth to be reborn on the EPoW? How long before it can return to the PMP? How long did the aboleth rule before the gods came?
That's assuming all of them stay on the Prime Material Plane, and at least in 3.5e the Aboleths weren't actually sea dwelling, but dwelt in lightless lakes beneath the earth
Unless they have a set number of aboleth souls. Elves are sometimes run like this. Where its literally impossible for them to overpopulat as thier are inky so many elven souls.
I love any eldrich lore this included.
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I think a very important lore and story point was missed. According to the Abolethic Sovereignty books, the Prime Aboleth somehow infested realmspace stars and celestial bodies with Far Realm entities and incited them to act against the Material Plane. Later on this entity would try to use the Key of Stars to open a gateway to the Far Realm itself using these star spawn Elder Evils in order to bring about the end of the world.
So, the Aboleth's empire was basically underwater ancient Egypt.
Good Stuff man thx.
Also, don't they get reborn in the plane of water if they die?
This is the detail that gets me. Why are they reborn in the Elemental Plane of Water when they are aberrations from the Far Realm?
@@javierpatag3609 Someone elsewhere in the comments suggested that they're either lying or mistaken, and were really created by a water primordial or something.
Maybe they choose the plane of water. As it supposedly a heaven for sea creatures, and the Aboleths are aquatic
@@shockerhaven07 Chose might be a strong word since such abilities are usually reserved to creatures Native to such a realm.
Out of curiosity, do you do still intend to do a video on the elder brains of the mind flayers?
As a terrible DM, aboleths are one of my favorite creatures, and im fond of their way of dominance; mind control. I often catch myself actually wishing Illithids were more like them, to better explain their own dominance, when their mins powers to do that are limited, and even the Elder Brains' ranges are only a handful of miles, when the world is huge, but the I prefer a happy world, where things like Aboleths, and Illithids, don't rule everything, so maybe its for the best? Beyond that, I sort of think it would be amusing for an Aboleth to sort of trick/provoke a deity, through its followers, to do things that would strengthen their aquatic positions, like surge the oceans up over more lands; a kind of permanent "high tide" flood, or to freeze the oceans, and replicate a space like what the Blue Age was before.
I do sometimes struggle with their motivations, though. They could hang deep, breed up, and then conquer a ton, but they don't, and 5e basically leaves us with only the "simplest" of these aberrations. I wonder what they are like on the Elemental Plane of Water, or where their deepest domains still exist, and what they might do to sieze more control?
Well made video :D
"the largest empire this world will ever see." *laughs in illithid.*
Even funnier, the Aboleths fear Illithids because they don’t show up in their racial memory which freaks them out since they remember everything else.
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Am aboleth episode from webdm AND mrrhexx!? God damn I love you guys
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The Elder Evils of the Far Realm always make me think of Lovecraft's universe and also the Eldrazi from Magic the Gathering. An Aboleth is in many respects similar to an Eldrazi scion.
Aboleths are the embodiment of "never forgive, never forget"?
I missed your d&d videos
To quote a certain space marine .
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So... aboleths are the ultimate enemy for a campaign then never truly ends. Their infinite plots can allow them to rival any adventurers, however powerful they may be.
Yaaaaaa! D&D
I love the ancient Lovecraftian horror monsters that the Mythos includes.
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I saw that Grim Dawn... well played.