Quote Originally Posted by The Glyphstone View Post
Jokes aside, if they do have an Illithid companion I'd expect a 'enemy of my enemy' archetype rather than Tentacle Drizzt. Still evil to the core and perfectly happy to snack on brains, but whatever huge plot is at hand is being orchestrated by an internal political rival, so it needs to fail even if the species as a whole would benefit.
Bending the tropes like that is out of Larian's ball park I assume. Or at least I very much hope so. But you can bet your precious behinds that we will get Dak'kon 2.0, with all the fanboying around Gith. I assume (s)he will be a DLC thing , but there is no way you have a story about Mindflayers without the Gith empire involved.

How about the opposite. An illithid turned into a human?
The zanyness of Baldur's Gate could even mean you get a benign illithid larva to insert into your choice of custom follower. Have the voice lines by the larva, but customize the follower being whatever you like and/or need.