Mind flayers are geniuses not one of them ever saw through this? It definitely plays into the 2e directive that evil should be self-sabotaging, but it just makes one of the coolest monsters in D&D seem like rubes. The elder brain specifically was said to be lying to all other illithids about how their personalities would remain intact inside of them forever.
As I’ve previously said, I do not like the 2e innovations that made both beholders and mind flayers eusocial species, because it strips them of their main attributes (independence and xenophobia for beholders, extreme intelligence for mind flayers) and makes them into pawns, slaves and dupes. [In writing up the mind flayers, my goal has been to make a version of the elder brain that I actually like and would use. Image © Wizards of the Coast, by Daarken.
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