The Astral Plane—a realm of thought and dreams.
Within its vast, boundless silver sea, soft gray clouds drifted slowly in the distance, while ribbons of gray and white light endlessly rolled like faraway stars.
Yet a mature and powerful civilization still existed here: the Gith.
After breaking free from the shackles of the Mind Flayers' interstellar civilization and gaining freedom, some among them whose minds had become too twisted split off and became the most notorious pirates in the entire Coriel universe—
The Githyanki!
At this moment, within this prosperous and bustling dockyard starport, countless Githyanki were conducting a grand and solemn execution ceremony.
At the center of the broad harbor platform, beneath the gaze of the masses, a Mind Flayer bound alongside his Tribe Members to a row of crosses looked up impassively at the lofty Githyanki, who were endlessly reading aloud the various vile deeds and crimes their kind had committed during their distant imperial age.
He was the one who had once crossed paths with Li Wei aboard the Netheril Magic Ship.
Carlos, mockingly nicknamed Epilepsy by his own kind.
A Mind Flayer whose host had been the younger brother of Savivian, the Black Dragon Queen. Because his unusual size had prevented a perfect transformation, he retained an abundance of emotion.
Eighty-four years ago, aboard the Netheril Magic Ship, he had used the vessel's mental shielding against the Mind Flayer Elder Brain. Though he had failed to seize the Mythallar, he had successfully broken free from the Elder Brain's psychic restraints, escaping that sealed-away, decaying Mind Flayer community.
Having gained his freedom, Carlos spent a full ten years traveling through the various Mind Flayer communal city-states of the Underdark, searching for and rescuing a group of Mind Flayer individuals like himself—those who still retained the emotional side