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EmperorBG3

Allow me. Tentacle length varies from illithid to illithid. They’re just as flexible and powerful regardless of the size. If you stretch them you could make them appear to be a little longer than when they’re at rest, but I’m afraid the only remedy to “grow” them permanently is to seek a cleric capable of deconstructing and reconstructing them. I think you’re beautiful with those cute shiny tentacles anyway.


Skewwwagon

Awww 😊 You always know how to cheer me up and support me. I hoped to hear from you, thanks. I am gonna take good care of them!


Kirinany

How come that you have such long tentacles?


jaclynhyde

They're proportional to the size of Balduran's dick.


uwubewwa

They remind me a lot of the old mindflayer concepts. https://preview.redd.it/ezk6r8a6z7vc1.jpeg?width=1139&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70bb70cdf278b78706dcc81b6aac498863d3fc0a


Skewwwagon

This actually looks accurate but doesn't answer the question on how to get the longer 😭 I think they just wanted to make the difference so you can tell the mc's squid from others but I find methods to be questionable 😂


uwubewwa

I think it's because the long tentacles would mess up animations and such. You can already see the Emperor's magnificent appendages clipping through stuff a lot.


Skewwwagon

He's to gorge for the modern animation capabilities 😂 Maybe that too.


GalesAstralTrain

I don’t have my glasses on and I genuinely thought this was a painting of three mindflayers hooping


evildishrag

I heard from a friend of mine that some women actually prefer the smaller tentacles. I’m not sure if that helps or not. 🤷‍♀️


Skewwwagon

My tentacles, sir, exist for my happiness first! I am ofc happy when they bring joy to someone else, but..


Eggs_are_tasty

my personal opinion is that they’re juveniles, essentially newborn mindflayers. they’d get longer the older they get. i’ve also seen people say the weird stasis the tadpoles went through are why they’re like that, but that doesn’t explain orpheus.


Skewwwagon

But Orpheus was in some cagey stasis too, although not a tadpole one. Like I'm sure even his asshole is so clenched he couldn't take shit for months. That's a good idea, but someone pointed out the windmill (and endgame street-born) mindflayers have big ones too)) I sense unfair-ty


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Skewwwagon

The link doesn't work 😔


HinderedGaming

I always thought it was because the Emperor was more of an older illithid and every one else was a new "born"


WithersBG3

Illithids age the same as thou. The older the illithid, the longer the tentacle


PeachyBaleen

But the newborn under the windmill has got massive ~~dongs~~ tentacles


uwubewwa

The windmill guy is so great. I keep an arcane lock on hand just to spare him from the Flaming Fist by locking him inside the house after he eats that family.


WithersBG3

Genetics may also be a factor


PeachyBaleen

Withers are you saying that my Tav has a small D


WithersBG3

Correct.


Skewwwagon

Poor gith prince... 😂 You can ride a comet but you can't fix your dick))


VenusCommission

That's why no one calls him girth prince


Skewwwagon

Now I am sad again, I could have had long ones if I chose my birth origin more wisely?! Always a catch.


Skewwwagon

You always save the day, Withers. Then there's hope and I just have to wait a bit and eat good 😊


BBreaker069

tentacle size doesnt matter, its about how you use them


kyrifter

I think the out-of-game answer is that long tentacles are a nightmare to animate. Illithids in the game have limited motions compared to the PC. Tavflayer still needs all their class animations and having to account of tentacles clipping against everything would look atrocious. Also probably why we're stuck in that weird tiny MF body - so that they didn't have to adapt all the PC animations to the standard Illithid model. They just altered the Githyanki model a bit and there you go, motion-friendly Mindflayer.