D&D Lore: Monster Lab - Aboleth (Ancient Aliens of the Deep)

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Riches and Liches

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@duanebradway1627
@duanebradway1627 9 ай бұрын
I love this video and this topic. I enjoy using Aboleth, not always as the big bad, because of their innate abilities. As for the returning to the plain of water concept. I have just chosen to incorporate that as a pocket within the plain that houses empty Aboleth carcasses. These empty shells serve as backup bodies for the oldest of Aboleth consciousness to inhabit once their current bodies are beyond repair. I have also used Aboleth as reoccurring encounters in some long running campaigns.
@usafbgartin
@usafbgartin 3 ай бұрын
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@WesleyMcLain-kj5if
@WesleyMcLain-kj5if Ай бұрын
Aboleth empire called Pepperidge Farms: “Do you remember the time before the gods? Pepperidge Farms remembers.”
@tinglycheese0410
@tinglycheese0410 5 ай бұрын
This couldn’t have come at a better time. I am starting a home brew long form campaign with aboleths as the central plot point. Thankyou for this incredibly comprehensive video, I have so many ideas to write down now! It’s as if they… knew to show me this
@normknapp4404
@normknapp4404 9 ай бұрын
We had an Aboleth who had converted the local clergy into worship of one of then”older things”! Bent the sorcerer into becoming a great old one Warlock , and finally the local lore master into reading a bit too much into a few lost tombs! The party was having the lore master research his own patron without even knowing all the while the GOO warlock was being fed collaborated information from the local Aboleths “parent”! The entire party ended up going insane in epic proportions!
@AGS363
@AGS363 9 ай бұрын
Hot take: D&D needs far less Mind Flayers and far more Aboleths!
@afrigidnightmare4868
@afrigidnightmare4868 7 ай бұрын
I agree, especially when one looks at the monsters associated with them. There is far less monsters associated or made by Aboleths compared to those from Illithid.
@spaceninja1252
@spaceninja1252 7 ай бұрын
More like a tepid take but I agree
@MultiCommissar
@MultiCommissar 8 ай бұрын
I always found it cool that Aboleths are actually afraid of Illithids, because they have no idea where or *when* they came from.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 8 ай бұрын
Absolutely. I left that out due to the video already breaking an hour, but it will be in the Mind Flayer video. Great comment!
@HexaCubeDice
@HexaCubeDice 9 ай бұрын
For what it is worth, the most direct inspiration for the aboleths is the 1964 short story The Inhabitant of the Lake, by Ramsey Campbell. If you like exteneded Cthulhu Mythos, it is a pretty good read. The story details a foul, alien, powerfully psychic being called Glaaki. It enslaves people who eventually become aquatic undead. The absurd 1st ed D&D art was an attempt to make a legally distinct version of a creature that was originally a spiky egg-frog. Check out early (3rd and below) edition art for Call of Cthulhu. I think a good look for an aboleth accentuates this mostly sedentary aspect. While giant lanternfish does not work, I also don't like leviathanesque eels or snakes. Playing off of Glaaki, I think a proper aboleth should be primarily sea urchin with aspects of starfish and soft corals.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
Excellent comments and i will check out that book!
@matthewbennett1972
@matthewbennett1972 9 ай бұрын
Never thought about that before.
@Hakaze
@Hakaze 6 ай бұрын
I get strong Dagon vibes from them
@OlympusPublicAffairs
@OlympusPublicAffairs 7 ай бұрын
The abole5h going into stasis is interesting for me. I'm building a desert campaign and love the idea of some ancient aboleth existing deep beneath the sands of some long-dried seabed. Could have some interesting consequences.
@B00Radl33
@B00Radl33 7 ай бұрын
Just for anyones amusement. I have an Aboleth that shows up in all of my games. She feeds off of ambient emotions, specificly favoring Romance, Lust, and Love. So she has been writing cheap romance novels under the name Sertsa Loo'bove.
@yossiharr
@yossiharr 9 ай бұрын
The lords of madness states that the illithids and the aboloth have what amounts to a mutual respect for one another but wouldn't the aboleth brain be highly sought after by the illithids?
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
That is an excellent question and one that I have added to my research notes for the Mindflayer video that is on the roadmap.
@johntheherbalistg8756
@johntheherbalistg8756 9 ай бұрын
Without a doubt, they'd love to, but that might be a bucket of worms they don't want to kick over. Aboleths might actually win that one. Might be fun to play out, with a party in the middle, though
@KS-PNW
@KS-PNW 9 ай бұрын
I always liked the analogy Lords of Madness used, that they're basically the bookends of history.
@yossiharr
@yossiharr 9 ай бұрын
@@KS-PNW yes I loved that too
@thomasoglesby-sn7py
@thomasoglesby-sn7py 9 ай бұрын
I forget which edition but at one point the aboleths lore included animosity toward illithids because they are the one race of being whose origins remain unknown to the aboleths
@bluebird3281
@bluebird3281 4 ай бұрын
Aboleths are from the far realm, but with their big brains they eventually figured out a way to reform in a part the plane of water they corrupted as to more easily return to the material plane. It took them a great amount of time and effort to return from the far realm.
@Johnsmith-hx6lq
@Johnsmith-hx6lq 8 ай бұрын
I think it’s honestly more intriguing when the aboleth are the true inheritors of the material plane. Not made by the hands of any god, but shaped by primordial forces older than any god and utterly alien to both them and their creations. It makes even the material plane more intriguing by speaking to its original nature prior to the arrival of the gods and makes the Aboleths’ enmity towards gods and mortals much more earned
@wumper2676
@wumper2676 9 ай бұрын
Hey Rich, I just discovered your channel maybe a week ago, while I was searching for inspiration for my big bad in the campaign I'm running. I've watched a few of the videos now and I absolutely love the way you execute them, how you tell a narrative to start and then get into it. Well done man, and I look forward to what else you have in store for us.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
Lots more coming, I am closing in on completing the next video, which is the Crown Wars. Thanks for the kind words and comment!
@trckstr2888
@trckstr2888 6 ай бұрын
What are the odds this comes up on my feed as I’m prepping for Level 4 of Dungeon of the Mad Mage 😂😂 incredible watch, thank you
@mickmcgrath8099
@mickmcgrath8099 Ай бұрын
Love this... in process of developing a homebrew campaign, loosely using the Cinderspires series as a starting point and filling in a lot of unanswered/unfinished stuff (so far anyway) with D&D lore. In the series there are these flying whale/leviathan/kraken type things that attack the airships. Been toying with the idea of a homebrew flying aboleth to hopefully kinda fill that role. These lore videos are awesome for getting a baseline I can build up from and lots of potential ideas to mess around with. Thanks!
@elkaj.3265
@elkaj.3265 3 ай бұрын
I know this comment might be late... But I started a campaign involving aboleths just yesterday as an halloween "gift" for my friends... It's my second time being a DM and I only used the 5th edition books so far... You really opened my mind talking about the older editions and I'm already imagining more scenarios and lore to feed my friends, thank you so much!
@edwardleonard7545
@edwardleonard7545 9 ай бұрын
Great detail. I once used a Morkoth being framed by a greater Aboleth to take the fall when the adventurers finally came for it.
@damonatnot4565
@damonatnot4565 3 ай бұрын
As always - excellent video. Rolling an Aboleth into my Saltmarsh campaign now!
@JonnySaysHi413
@JonnySaysHi413 7 ай бұрын
Always happy for more Aboleth content and hope you do a follow up with homebrew mechanics etc!
@mr.sharpie2206
@mr.sharpie2206 9 ай бұрын
I'm with you on this, everything I recall from 1st through 4th edition tied them to arriving with the Obyriths, and coming from the far realm.
@KS-PNW
@KS-PNW 9 ай бұрын
You really did a nice job on this one man. Really impressed with the level of detail you included. I think this just might be my favorite video of yours, thanks 👍👍
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
So glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for taking the time to watch and leave such a motivating comment! Really means a lot... /bow
@Walmsal
@Walmsal 9 ай бұрын
It's the channel that just keeps on giving! Absolutely sterling work, Mr ;)
@Captnjared
@Captnjared 9 ай бұрын
I love the idea that aboleth are native to the prime material plane and they are just horror from before the rule of the gods
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
I think the Aboleth are waaay under represented! I hope my video moved the needle just a fraction towards fixing that! :) Thank you for the watch and words!
@WesleyMcLain-kj5if
@WesleyMcLain-kj5if 9 ай бұрын
Hour long video!? Yes please!
@Zeyga
@Zeyga 6 ай бұрын
Excellent video! As a Chicagoan in classical music, I approve of your use of the Chicago Symphony.
@DnD_Guru
@DnD_Guru 9 ай бұрын
Your timing was perfect. I am throwing my group against an Aboleth very soon and was just thinking of looking for a vid like this when bam! Here you are
@BrendanKOD
@BrendanKOD 6 ай бұрын
The simplest way to square the circles of the Aboleths changing lore from edition to edition is to just look at each edition shift as a big event where divine battles that extended backward in time rewrote the fundamental nature of reality again and again, and the aboleth posses the knowledge and power to take advantage of each of these shifts. Thus when reality was changed over to 5E, the Aboleth took the opportunity to route their transition through the elemental plane of water to grant themselves immortality.
@sebastianroundtree1550
@sebastianroundtree1550 7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the lore drop! I’m going to go against the grain and use the aboleth as an alien in a single session of a Spelljammer campaign - I’ve always loved this monster though. Definitely have to make a psychically enslaved town/city-state sometime in a future campaign
@martinrobert6709
@martinrobert6709 9 ай бұрын
Loved the aboleth since I first read the Ecology of the Aboleth in Dragon 131, including the savant.
@MrMCSmores
@MrMCSmores 9 ай бұрын
Great timing! Im prepping to run a Ghosts of Saltmarsh fame soon and i was gonna use the Aboleth as the maig bg and some extra content from Yawning Portal to have the game go to 15/16. Im 1000% gonna make a lair aboleth if you don't. Thanks a bunch!
@SaltyShaun
@SaltyShaun 9 ай бұрын
Your videos are amazing. Keep em coming please ❤
@Nonzerotonin
@Nonzerotonin 6 ай бұрын
Ah, the majestic SploogeFish (as our table has taken to calling them). In our pirate themed campaign, our DM loves thowing us at these things.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 6 ай бұрын
LOl I love the nickname!
@dadzwag
@dadzwag 9 ай бұрын
Thank you!!!!!!!!! This was the ep I have been waiting for
@dmcookieman9008
@dmcookieman9008 9 ай бұрын
So excited for this video! Love your content!
@carsonshields4205
@carsonshields4205 9 ай бұрын
I really like all the artwork you have in the video. I remember the Night Below campaign as having a number of aboleth and it would be fun to have different art for each.
@Buzzregog
@Buzzregog 9 ай бұрын
Love Aboleth as a big baddy. My current campaign is progressing through a series of adventures leading up to one. Thanks for the timely video :)
@czcrossman
@czcrossman 8 ай бұрын
Loving your stuff! Aboleths are so freaking interesting, I first learned about them from AJ Pickett!!
@B00Radl33
@B00Radl33 7 ай бұрын
The idea of Aboleths being ancient, psionic, lawful, and anti magic gives me some interesting ideas. Some MCDM lore has a race of LN beings who deal with major paradoxes and reality warping caused by magic. These beings seek to limit magic. The idea of Magic coming from chaos, these Inexoriables being allied with Aboleths, and maybe even Illithids in limiting and possibly trying to seal away magic seems really cool to me. After reading that MCDM book I have been using bottles of Chaos to give extra oomph when casting spells. It seemed fitting.
@lyudmilapavlichenko7551
@lyudmilapavlichenko7551 8 ай бұрын
My players still whisper in hushed tones about their battle with the "nightmare catfish". I had them shaking at the table way before a single die was rolled.
@SasamiTM
@SasamiTM 9 ай бұрын
I was wondering if you’ve seen the Dungeons of Drakkenheim unique version known as The Dutchess who goes from a “common” aboleth to a gargantuan psychic leviathan by exposure to a sort of eldrich radiation of meteor fragments Something I find very interesting is while she does enslave thralls and mutates them, she genuinely thinks she’s benevolently saving her subjects from the awful dry surface world like some lovecraftian reverse little mermaid
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
HAHA I love that perspective. I am not familiar with the dudes homebrew, but it sounds interesting!
@tomsimpkins1211
@tomsimpkins1211 6 ай бұрын
Me, looking at my holy-inclined monk who knows Deep Speech because I didn't know what it was:
@rasbaindechain7863
@rasbaindechain7863 7 ай бұрын
Personal headcannon as far as all of the origins of the aboleth is that they are not too dissimilar to demons, more specifically the original ones who came into the universe from another. (Cant remember the specific species rn) But the aboleth make sense as an invading species who probably dropped into the elemntal plane of water either first or was their preferred domain once they saw it; basically no different than the demons with the abyss. Blends both the far realm theory and the elemental plane, and makes sense for a hyper intelligent 'fish' monster.
@shadow15kryans23
@shadow15kryans23 9 ай бұрын
I think i know the reason 5e mentioned this plane of water stuff.... Explanation: In the plane of water there is the "Sea of Timelessness" realm, Indicating there is close ties between the Demiplane of time and Plane of Water. We can actually directly tie them with the base default campaign setting throughout the 1980-1990's which is Mystara. This is the source of where being like Ulgurshek (mentioned in Fiendish codex hordes of the abyss and etc...) comes from, He is a Draeden in the 92nd layer of the abyss who IS the demonweb pits as a single entity. Back in these days, God's didn't require beliefs and were called "Immortals" and used 5 general spheres of power throughout the Astral Sea (which actually still exists to this very day seemingly). And during the "Dungeons and Dragons Players Guide to Immortals", Time itself is DIRECTLY labeled to be tied to the Element of water (or at least most closely tied to water)! I think this is why 5e mentioned Abeloths soul going to the plane of water. Because Abeloth exists beyond the standard Material Planes time. Soooo~ In order to materialize in the material plane from the far realms, They need to use an element. And it just turns out they're most compatible with water via being outside the material planes time. It all checks out, The 2 are compatible. 😁👍
@crakkbone
@crakkbone 7 ай бұрын
If you say so haha
@mcgoo721
@mcgoo721 5 ай бұрын
That 3e rendition goes dumb with it i absolutely love him
@joshuasolano9253
@joshuasolano9253 9 ай бұрын
I wonder if the Illithid are a distant relative of the Aboleth or maybe a subspecies. Maybe an Elder Brain is an Aboleth transformation that happens when they are in their Deep slumber...
@KS-PNW
@KS-PNW 9 ай бұрын
Lords of Madness hints that they might be a distant ancestor of the flayers.
@herdsman7440
@herdsman7440 8 ай бұрын
I had an Aboloth as a BBEG in a campaign that didn't work out. It was using the under dark to get around and it was enslaving many creatures. A Slaver aboloth got ahold of a bunch of goblins and were using them to kidnap humans for better slaves. The goblins almost worshipped it, calling it Wide Maw. The partt thought it was stupid and mocked me for it.
@Avigorus
@Avigorus 7 ай бұрын
I think someone needs to go through all D&D lore from all books (from the earliest to the latest, or at least through 3.5) and write wiki articles that describes the evolutions and retcons as if one was recounting the history of what in-universe scholars have claimed, to make it easier for DMs to read through and pick and choose what they want to consider to be canon. As for Aboleth origins, I headcanon the Wheel formed _from_ a chunk of Far Realms, and the Aboleths were the natives when this happened who didn't get booted, destroyed, or driven insane, and perhaps the elemental plane of water was what was formed around them as the Wheel settled.
@SeeKay2099
@SeeKay2099 9 ай бұрын
Very good, thanks for your work :)
@TehGnomeh
@TehGnomeh 3 ай бұрын
New BG3 Ending: "Now that the hero has seized control of the Big Bad Brain they plan to-" "OH WATCH OUT WATCH OUT~!" "IT'S AN ABOLETH WITH A STEEL CHAIR FROM THE TOP ROPE!!!" *Psychic Screeching*
@virtualcircle285
@virtualcircle285 9 ай бұрын
So glad you made this. Far realm is the most interesting IMO can you do the Obyriths?
@pxydtz2643
@pxydtz2643 8 ай бұрын
One of my first thoughts while listening to this was the "Source of All Living Matter" from Attack on Titan as a miniature parasitic variant of aboleth that dominates & propagates through "royal" hosts until it matures and re-collectivizes into it's ultimate colossal form
@Hurricayne92
@Hurricayne92 7 ай бұрын
A possible explaination for the 5e sentence is that in creating the Aboleth there spirits are derived from the Elemental Plane of Water but were created in the Far realm. Although that does raise further questions.
@ashtonfox2264
@ashtonfox2264 9 ай бұрын
So all my townspeople are acting funny. Polishing already clean tables, overfilling drinks, so on. What my players dont know is the entire town is mind controlled. The barbarian just went off with two little kids who are playing hide and seek with him in some caves... with an underground stream....
@B.V.Luminous
@B.V.Luminous 2 ай бұрын
Don't be gentle!
@youngimperialistmkii
@youngimperialistmkii 9 ай бұрын
I agree on the official art for Aboleth. Aberrations really need to be nightmare fuel. 🦑
@glenoneil7770
@glenoneil7770 9 ай бұрын
Awesome stuff, if possible would love a deep dive into the Sibriex
@Comrade2261
@Comrade2261 9 ай бұрын
Amazing, in-depth vid!
@nos2342
@nos2342 9 ай бұрын
Illithid video please. The interaction of these to species is something else.
@lunamaria1048
@lunamaria1048 8 ай бұрын
Were these the monsters that were once the "higher power", before the gods time? They hate the gods and plot to get back power over humanoids, or something? I have a vague memory of reading about these, somewhere. Ahhh yes you confirmed it. Nice! I love these videos! Thanks!
@MySerpentine
@MySerpentine 9 ай бұрын
Savants did have a sidebar explaining how to make them psionic, and very much said you ought to do so if you had the books for it.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
I saw that in my research, but my script was already over an hour so I could not elaborate... great comment and insight!
@theodorebear6714
@theodorebear6714 5 ай бұрын
Evil magic eel of deep underwater castles 😱
@rezonpokemon3854
@rezonpokemon3854 9 ай бұрын
I can think of a reasonable explanation why an aboleth would partake in magic while still maintaining the phychic supremacy. We see a similar thing with the Ilithids. Magic is considered a taboo. Looked down upon. But just because its thought poorly doesn't mean there won't be those who wish to partake in them. Aboleth outcasts seem like fitting creatures for curiosity and mastery of magic. Many say to destroy an enemy, and you must use their own tactics against them to succeed. And abolith with a desire to succeed in any cost and to partake in taboos in their societies to do it seem like a very fitting reason of a few stragglers. Especially if said stragglers are also deemed to be of the lowest class of aboleth. With nothing left to lose, what's a good few arcane experiments. They gotbplent of ofbtest subjects after all.
@Michael-du2fv
@Michael-du2fv 9 ай бұрын
Magic is an external power taken from the Weave, borrowed from the world at the privilege allowed by a God. An Abeloths power us psionic it's from within, their own power not given to them by another. Their infallible belief that they are the greatest living entities and even the Gods are flawed and lesser means that to use magic would to acknowledge their own limitations and the authority of a God over them. Which wouldn't happen, their ego and arrogance in the own supremecy would never allow them to put another being above themselves.
@Astraea4
@Astraea4 7 ай бұрын
I actually really have a soft spot for 3.5 aboleth design as though on a surface level it just kinda looks like a fish it's got so many things that make it wrong. The tower-like head with the multiple seemingly redundant eyes on a tower-like skull, many extra tentacle like fins, what seems to be a complete lack of a mouth, weird orifices all over it's body with an unknown purpose. It's very lovecraftian in more of Dagon/Deep One type way. The 3.5 iteration of the Skum are also just straight up Deep Ones lmao.
@mrmackie-qp6lr
@mrmackie-qp6lr 7 ай бұрын
I went on black rabbit in Channel and I actually started listening to the sovereignty books on there the first one anyways the first book was pretty good I've got to admit but one problem that D&D really has I've noticed is that they like to jam love triangles into their books so I'll give the second one a listen and if it has love triangles I'll just drop it like the rest
@dcyphermanplays8233
@dcyphermanplays8233 9 ай бұрын
Awesome video!... I have an Aboleth in my campaign that the party think they have defeated permanently... Mu hahahahaha
@RiotKurhein
@RiotKurhein 8 ай бұрын
Junji Ito's "The Thing On the Shore" makes for an amazing introduction for any players not aware of the Aboleth.
@noctusdoesthings
@noctusdoesthings 8 ай бұрын
"This Wizards writer has no clue what they're doing or anything about this monster" First time?
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 8 ай бұрын
LOL you said it, not me! :)
@majinsole8554
@majinsole8554 9 ай бұрын
I agree- these horrifying behemoth’s are not given their due in 5e! Despite this, they remain terrifying. Truly, aboleth is more. ~_~
@adrianatkins10
@adrianatkins10 6 ай бұрын
Great vid! Ty
@afrigidnightmare4868
@afrigidnightmare4868 7 ай бұрын
I actually really love the Aboleth and wish DND would give them more to work with, I’m currently making a domain of dread where its hallmarks are black seas and Aboleths.
@heathharris2545
@heathharris2545 9 ай бұрын
I have never heard of the aerial variant. I think I'll make then exiles from the main aboleth community. Maybe they started worshipping a god or practicing magic.
@uzunaruMelonness
@uzunaruMelonness 9 ай бұрын
A stein lowers as the cloaked figure shifts in her seat. "Wait, twenty-one... strength and... nine dexterity." She sighs. "And a thick, aquatic mucus. This isn't... a Gulper." Her blue eyes narrow. "Ugh!" Her body shudders. She cringes. "The snotty... texture. Even the Razor Fins (shark)... wouldn't eat it." Bass gags at the thought...
@jesserivera2890
@jesserivera2890 7 ай бұрын
Hey can you go over the aboleth in Pathfinder? They play a huge roll in development too but they have a variant above aboleth called veiled masters
@permeus2nd
@permeus2nd 7 ай бұрын
8:04 it’s been my experience that the vast majority of D&Der tend to run 3.5 or a version of it some use 4th but most find that 3.5 offers the most freedom and allows more creativity.
@Grimmance
@Grimmance 9 ай бұрын
I always played Aboleth in 2-3.5 as phasing into the plane of water on hitting 0 unless you plane locked them.
@sigmar4564
@sigmar4564 9 ай бұрын
Great Video
@123thebigdog
@123thebigdog 8 ай бұрын
So I’m working on creating history of my world. I have it that a lone aboloth (not sure on what size or version) was the creature that first caused “law” to exist. As they corrupted IO’s spell to first create this world. Those creating the tween dragons Ahriman and Jazirian.
@aaronrowell6943
@aaronrowell6943 6 ай бұрын
As much as I like them in concept I just don't see how you can reasonably challenge much less defeat or even reason with these guys. Unlike dragons/beholders, the deep boys seem almost unbeatable
@eb7183
@eb7183 6 ай бұрын
Yes. I feel like it has to be a long, difficult run with Aboleths. For instance, the first hard won victory is simply breaking an Aboleth’s plan. The second victory might be convincing the creature to back off or lay low for a while. I wouldn’t enable an actual confrontation until at least the third major act of a campaign. And even then, this Aboleth is merely a grasping tentacle emerging from the greater Aboleth society.
@user95395
@user95395 6 ай бұрын
@@eb7183maybe one on land that is close to dreaming
@cvbecelaere
@cvbecelaere 9 ай бұрын
Well... time to add a new possible BBEG and underlings to my world. There goes another 12 hours 😀
@tobiaspause1775
@tobiaspause1775 9 ай бұрын
I assume they came from the Far realm, but they are banished (there souls are bound to) the elemental plane of Water by the gods.
@mammonclarke
@mammonclarke 9 ай бұрын
Is their mouth a gaping maw filled with sword length fangs? Is it multiple disks of razor blades like a lamp ray. Is the aboleth's skin smooth grey and spongy, or is it rough and covered with spikes? The answer to these and many more questions regarding the aboleth's physical description is "Yes". They are all of these and many more all at once. Their physical bodies are anything and everything. Their features are formed from the fears and nightmares of those material beings that have the unfortunate fate of coming into contact with these oldest of all horrors. Every creature sees the aboleth differently depending on that creature's deepest darkest fears. This however is no illusion. This is how the aboleth truly looks. Many different forms all at once. They have been alive long before the material plane came into existence henece they are not bound by its rules of physics.
@matthewbennett1972
@matthewbennett1972 9 ай бұрын
The closet comparison you can make is a Hag fish. With the mucous it makes sense
@ashb8036
@ashb8036 9 ай бұрын
I think the reason why the art takes away from the horror of the Aboleth is that they have been shown in full light and light backgrounds. Nothing about their physical form is left unknown. They are almost like a child’s story, simplified for ease of communication by people that have never experienced the mind bending wrongness that they represent. Making it “known” removes the imaginative strangeness and the unknown. The unknown is where cosmic horror draws its power. It’s like a spotlight that removes the shapelessness and presents a specific image. If I had an Aboleth to present to my players, they’d be well aware that the pictures in the books are a poor representation of what someone who heard a legend, that was passed down over generations, might believe. It that truly minimizes and tries to make sense of something that is truly beyond our visual comprehension.
@johntheherbalistg8756
@johntheherbalistg8756 9 ай бұрын
I'm getting together a campaign right now that is going to be, at least at first, all about the Far Realm. I can't wait until I get to run these things. Mindflayers will be fun, but aboleths 😘👌
@Morghast
@Morghast 8 ай бұрын
Here for the footnotes and commentary, stay for the Younligns
@Mystic_Librarian
@Mystic_Librarian 9 ай бұрын
Wow munchies and drink ready, doggo and kitty minions next to me ready, lights out music up. WOOT WE ARE READY!!!
@ashvandal5697
@ashvandal5697 9 ай бұрын
I’ve always liked aboleth ever since 2e Night Below campaign. However I think I’ve always just had a love of that campaign, rather than the aboleth specifically.
@TheOneandPrime
@TheOneandPrime 2 ай бұрын
Aboleth in the long dreaming is how Dune Sandworms are born lol
@t2av159
@t2av159 7 ай бұрын
oh psychic catfish, tell me your wisdom
@m3w
@m3w 9 ай бұрын
Visual empowerment achieved!
@massimorolli4414
@massimorolli4414 8 ай бұрын
Unknown to most there is a small minority of Aboleth that refuses to enslave others. They are called Abolethionists! 😀
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 8 ай бұрын
Well played sir... well played INDEED!
@setelliott9683
@setelliott9683 9 ай бұрын
Always wondered why a being who eats nightmares; in a world where monsters make, cause, and are nightmares, and nightmares are form of monsters; was considered evil. Maybe people just call anything-not-a-so-called-god evil, despite the habits and behavior of said gods calling much into question.
@setelliott9683
@setelliott9683 9 ай бұрын
Huh...I wonder if Ruidys is a trapped Aboleth.
@setelliott9683
@setelliott9683 9 ай бұрын
PSA: don't type anything while completely exhausted (also a note to self)
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 9 ай бұрын
Been there my friend :)
@setelliott9683
@setelliott9683 9 ай бұрын
@@RichesandLiches thank you
@BuboStabbins
@BuboStabbins 9 ай бұрын
Aboleth lore/concept: 200/10 Aboleth offical art: 3/10
@kennethmilam2894
@kennethmilam2894 3 ай бұрын
Amazing details ❤❤
@citizen_grub4171
@citizen_grub4171 8 ай бұрын
Deep Speech is older than the Aboleths. It's the language of the Far Realms.
@gmradio2436
@gmradio2436 2 ай бұрын
I don't know why, but one running some twisted biolab seems like an interesting plot. Bio engineered infiltrators and bio weapons. Think 1 part UAC, 1 part Weylend-Yutani, and 2 parts Umbrella.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 2 ай бұрын
I love this!
@bombyouup62
@bombyouup62 9 ай бұрын
They are a playable race in Dominions game.Well for one era lol.
@KS-PNW
@KS-PNW 9 ай бұрын
Dominions game?
@drain_001
@drain_001 3 ай бұрын
This week on MotorWeek, we test drive the Aboleth!
@dakotacowan8676
@dakotacowan8676 8 ай бұрын
Is there any way to get links to the artwork for all the villages and things from this video? Would love to use some as references at my table.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 8 ай бұрын
I just recently added the art for the various volumes to my patreon site as a perk for my supporters (link below). However I always feel bad asking people for support, so if there is a particular few images you would like, just shoot me an email and I will send you what you need. Email: richesandliches@gmail.com Patreon Shop: www.patreon.com/richesandliches/shop
@dakotacowan8676
@dakotacowan8676 8 ай бұрын
@@RichesandLiches I was on the fence about the patreon and that sells me, you deserve something for such quality work.
@RichesandLiches
@RichesandLiches 8 ай бұрын
That is super kind and generous, thank you. The truth is I love creating the content... so much so that I aspire to do it full time so that I can continue to get better and do more. So again thank you for the assist in that goal... :) As for the art packs, I think I have the last 5 volumes up plus some specialty art packs. As time allows I am also going back to older volumes and adding their packs as well but its a slow process. However moving forward, all new packs since I think the Blood War are up and all new videos have a volume up a few days after the videos release. Do let me know if you have any questions. Rich
@Jimmy-p9n
@Jimmy-p9n 9 ай бұрын
Wow, i have only ever seen basic knowledge. Aberrations are scary f@#$$
@sammatthews5175
@sammatthews5175 5 ай бұрын
Where did you find most of the art for the video?
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