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  • Illithids do not have an afterlife though. When they die their brains are eaten by the elder brain, not uploaded into the Matrix. And in BG3 internal canon, the relevant one for the Emperor, Jergal straight up says they don’t have souls and there’s no greater authority on that particular matter. The Emperor is only an illithid that happens to have some of his host’s memories intact.



  • It’s a bit of a wash because while he says being a mind flayer is better than being human, but he spent decades as a thrall and relies on enslaving a dude to immunize himself from falling back into thrall. Also the record keeper god of death straight up says that mind flayers don’t have souls, which objectively exist in the setting. So he may have some memories of his human life, and bases his personality on those memories, but the original human is dead and gone, subsumed by the parasite that killed him and retains his memories.