Yharaskrik Yharaskrik was an illithid . Description . As an illithid , Yharaskrik had a truly horrible appearance . The humanoid creature had a bulbous head that resembled a huge brain , with several tentacles protruding from the part of its face where a nose , mouth , and chin should have been . Like other illithids , the Yharaskrik was a powerful psionic energy user , easily defeating any enemy with stunning blasts of mental energies . The illithid has a bubbling , watery voice that was described by Artemis Entreri as like the sound made by a very old man with too much phlegm in his throat . History . Yharaskrik and Bregan D ' aerthe . Yharaskrik came to Calimport to study the sword Charon ' s Claw . The creature lived in the deep tunnels below Kohrin Soulez ' s throne room in Dallabad Oasis after pretending to be defeated by Kohrin Soulez . After Jarlaxle and Bregan D ' aerthe successfully attacked Dallabad Oasis , Yharaskrik allied himself with Kimmuriel Oblodra . The creature taught Kimmuriel how to prevent Crenshinibon from controlling him , thereby making Kimmuriel an ally of necessity . Yharaskrik provided Kimmuriel with a small square lantern which had one open side and the other three sides shielded . When the candle inside the lantern was lit , the glow of the lantern ( similar to the psionic power Tower of Iron Will ) over Crenshinibon would temporarily diminish the shard ' s power . The lantern was used in a coup by Bregan D ' aerthe ' s lieutenants ( Berg ' inyon Baenre , Rai - guy , and Kimmuriel ) against their leader , Jarlaxle . Yharaskrik used Rai - guy , the current leader of Bregan D ' aerthe , to locate Crenshinibon after Artemis Entreri escaped the Bregan D ' aerthe coup with Crenshinibon and Jarlaxle . Later , in the tunnels close to the [ [ dragon ] [ [ Hephaestus ] ] ' s chamber , Yharaskrik attacked Rai - guy so that Crenshinibon could be destroyed by bringing it before Hephaestus . But the illithid was defeated by Rai - guy . Yharaskrik then surrendered to Rai - guy , but was supposedly killed ( when the creature tried to escape by melting into the stone ) along with Rai - guy ( and the destruction of Crenshinibon ) by the fiery breath of Hephaestus . The Ghost King . When the [ [ Spellplague ] ] began , Yharaskrik was able to come back from death and become a kind of mind - force without a body . He lured Hephaestus into smashing the remains of Crenshinibon into his forehead . The dragon became a [ [ dracolich ] ] and with Crenshinibon and Yharaskrik , the three become the entity known as the Ghost King . The mind of the dragon and that of Yharaskrik united to some degree . While scouting Yharaskrik found and possessed the dwarf [ [ Ivan Bouldershoulder ] ] , then took him to the cave the dracolich had moved to . He did that in order to have his own place to reside and hide his thoughts from the conscience of Hephaestus and the Crystal Shard . After some time , Ivan began to recover and the illithid decided to let him go and see him die facing the dracolich . The dwarf survived , however , and escaped thanks to a slide - like tunnel . Yharaskrik tried to possess him again , but to no avail . Driven by vengeance , the consciousness of Crenshinibon and Hephaestus became a single being . Yharaskrik was expelled from the triumvirate as the new mind formed in the Ghost King didn ' t pay follow logic and was too powerful for the illithid to control . With no place to go , Yharaskrik thought that he was about to fade away , but then realized Kimmuriel Oblodra could possibly help him . Finding the drow in [ [ Luskan ] ] , the illithid , acting out of desperation , made a deal with him . Yharaskrik gave all the information he knew about the Ghost King and in return Kimmuriel opened a " [ [ dimensional door ] ] " to the [ [ Astral Plane ] ] . Yharaskrik then left to the only place where he could exist without having to worry about physical limitations . References . [ [ Category : Mind flayers ] ] [ [ Category : Psionicists ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants of Calimport ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants of Calimshan ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants of the Lands of Intrigue ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants of West Faerûn ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants of Faerûn ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants of Toril ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants of the Astral Plane ] ] [ [ Category : Inhabitants ] ]