Alhoon

Alhoons are illithid liches. They are pretty cool guys and don't afraid of anything, anything being a motherbrain and it's horde of illithid underlings, drow under-underlings, and 20th level psionics in a metaphorical spitting rage. Becoming an alhoon is essentially the ultimate rejection of the illithid community, a path of immortality separate from consumption by the motherbrain. Kind of like saying, "I always wanted to be a woman, Mom, so I'll just move to Australia now. kthnxbye." 
Alhoons lose the ability to metabolize brains, but do not lose the hunger for them, so they always yearn for something they cannot successfully consume. (They can still pull it out and eat it, it just won't do them any good.) But hey, phenomenal cosmic powers.
An ascendent alhoon is an elderbrain who becomes a lich. Casters of Snowstorm Prime often do this after their ascension to godhood, because they will never be consumed by a motherbrain anyway and have shiny rocks to calm them down. It doesn't save them from their inevitable death in the following age, but Xenteroth recommends it anyway. 
=Notable alhoons=
*Xenteroth (ascendent)
*Talos (ascendent) 
Category:Species