In increasing order of importance, these roles are: slave gathering, slave maintenance, scientific research and experimentation, and ruling. There are four major roles in the aboleth society.
In this society, each aboleth has a specific duty which it performs with the utmost skill. Over their many years of existence, the aboleth have developed a society which far exceeds that of humans in efficiency.
They are believed to live for thousands of years, but exact information is difficult to gain. All are extremely intelligent - some even more so than the most ancient of elven mages. “In general, all aboleth are cruel, emotionless, and logical. Late in the ’80s, Dragon Magazine #131 did a special feature on the aboleth, describing them as follows:
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If they’re obsessed as I was with the game, which they clearly are, they would have obtained that manual in ’83 when it was hot off the press. So they’re not an anachronism Dustin would know about the aboleth, unless these kids never got around to buying the second Monster Manual, which I rather doubt. The aboleth first appeared in an adventure module called Dwellers of the Forbidden City (1981) and then were officially categorized in the Monster Manual II (1983), both of which predate the 1984 setting of Stranger Things 2.
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So that’s a 14-year anachronism in the TV show. The hive mind (elder brain) feature of the mind flayers would not be introduced into the game until 1998. There’s no contest.ĭustin reads the information on the mind flayer in the D&D Monster Manual (1977), but there is actually no mention of a hive mind in this manual. The aboleth are gigantic (anywhere from 20-40 feet long) like the TV creature mind flayers are the size of people. Aside from their octopus-like heads, they bear little resemblance to the shadow monster of Stranger Things. The mind flayers are humanoid in appearance (see right). The aboleth despise all forms of magic and rejected it long ago in favor of science, which aligns with the sci-fic premise of Stranger Things. Significant is their positive view of magic. Mind Flayers have similar traits, as I mentioned, but their differences stand out. In season 1 of Stranger Things the Demogorgon reproduced by tentacle implantation (down Will’s throat), not egg, so the eggs we saw in season 1 were probably eggs for shadow monsters (aboleth) rather than more demogorgons.Īn aboleth fits the description of the shadow monster almost to a tee, and it’s hard to see why Dustin associated it with a mind flayer instead. They are hermaphrodites and reproduce by egg. (An aboleth also assimilates the memories of consumed victims.) Aboleths enjoy spending time lost in the grand memories of their ancestors, and (time permitting) enjoy reliving entire portions of their ancestors’ lives. In addition to being part of a hive mind, they are born with a racial memory, each one inheriting the memories of its ancestors.
The aboleth are an ancient life form and extremely intelligent, and they view all other races as inferior upstarts who stole what is rightfully theirs. They excrete a mucus-substance which they need to breathe - the gooey substance from the Upside Down calls this to mind. Like mind flayers they have strong psionic abilities and use their mind control to make slaves. The aboleth are huge floating tentacled monsters (see left) that are also ruled by a hive mind.
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