Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Aboleths Revealed

My nerdiest video so far! In here we go super in-depth and explore the way Aboleths behave and how they do the things that they do. We get to explore how their brains function as well as how they breathe, communicate, and grow as they get older.

The vast majority of the content in this video comes from "The Lords of Madness: The book of Aberrations" which is a 3.5 lore book. I highly recommend reading it as it provides much more information, i only managed to cover a part of it. If you want to read about the Aboleth's culture, their cities, and what kind of entities they would "pray" to then please go and give it a read.

I narrated 3 quotes directly from the book: The first one was the prologue to the video. The second one was the reasons why the aboleths make alliances with the illithid, and lastly the last sentence of the video. I really liked the way the book described those particular thoughts and i wanted to share them but i don't want to take them as my own. Once again I highly recommend reading the book, it is quite fascinating.
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[nintendocaprimoon]

Mr: "sorry for the nerdiness at the end"
Everyone: that's... Why we're here

[LifeLikeSage]

I have a newfound respect for these two and the seagulls that were flying by the aboleth in that picture, they truly have massive balls...

[giuliopoletti]

our master put against us an aboleth during an underwater adventure like it was a common fish just chilling on the seabed and at the time i didn't knew their lore, just wait until i show him this video he's gonna facepalm so hard!

[snowflake]

Aboleth: "I fear no god or man, but that thing..."
Illithid:
Aboleth: "That thing scares me"

[gabrielecalabrese]

Before i watch the video i want to say: "Thank you". Then, when i'll finish watching it i'll say again because you're a wonderful narrator man, i mean it.

[RyllenKriel]

Aboleths: "You are our slaves."
Illithids: "No, you are our slaves!"
Aboleths: "No! You...Wait, at least we agree on some things."
Illithids: "Minds are a terrible thing to waste?"
Aboleths: "Memories are tasty!"

[gavinsaylor]

Boi, I know that these episodes take a lot more to script, but I think it's well worth it. Your tone and atmosphere truly fits this idea of forgotten or hidden lore, and being a DM, makes my brain chug along. Thankyou for making this and please continue

[XX-sptt]

"Hey Illithids, it's time for the universe to be reborn into a new one."
"New things scare us! Let's live in the past!"

[leregon]

Finally more DND lores.I've missed them dammit. Continue making em

[maximumeffort]

This brings up an interesting scenerio. Every Aboleth has their parents memories, that means that parents are basically giving birth to their own grandparents, themselves, and their great grandparents all at once.

[faddishbigfoot]

Its a shame this series doesn't get as much views as your other ones because I love your D&D videos and was sad to see them gone.

[CaIIumscorner]

Not even into dnd but I find this stuff fascinating

[sarcasticsloth]

Pretty sure this was in my recommended feed because I watched Puffin Forest.

[javierpatag]

14:20: "... the Aboleths and the Illithids are like cosmic bookends. Two similar races with similar goals, one from the the ancient past, one from the doomed future."
Just got to quote that 'coz that is some serious poetry there. Terrific writing.

[HavikXIII]

My dad played DND when I was a kid, I still have his big brown player handbook. I always thought it was interested, so Im really happy Ive stumbled acorss your videos. Not only do I love lore, but its on a subject pretty much completely new to me

[piffhebert]

I love this series. Especially how it's not what I would expect - ex. lore on Sphinxes, the Modron... I cannot wait to see what you speak on next, love your intonation. Don't change :)

[lucianocastrogiovanni]

The relationship of the illithid and the aboleth, I did not know, just makes me love them even more.

[elredfox]

Don't get me wrong, I like your Fallout and Skyrim. But your DND videos are just great I don't know what they have but I feel they have more passion. Anyhow thank you very much for the video and keep up with he good work!

[ZrinNZ]

ANOTHER Aboleth video? Thank you so much! I am using one as the BBEG for my current campaign and your videos have been extremely useful in setting the tone!

[SonySteals]

Awesome. I love your videos, mate. I have never played dnd, never had friends who would play so I’m just listenning to your lore content as if these were tales from an unknown world that existed somewhere else some other time.