Lael takes a sip of the water, and says, "I got the impression from the plane that it was constantly being made and destoryed, at the same time. Time was not linear, as it is here, but was best defined in terms of 'now', 'not now but has happened', and 'not now and might happen'. The proto-illithid was formed from a human that got trapped on the plane, and adapted into an illithid to better survive. The monstrosities seemed to be whatever my worst fear was, and then some extra thrown in for good measure. And the entire plane was worse than what I remember, but my mind is deliberately shying away from examining it too closely, lest I remember too much and lose my grasp on sanity."<br/><br/>She looks down at her feet, trying to remember a certain mage she had too kill a while back, who summoned things that seemed so similiar yet so different from the abomination that attacked her, and said, "I think it might have been one of the outer planes, based on my experience with the chaos mage about 15 years back. But I must admit, it was definitely one adventure for the history books. But that hole the illithid made to go back in time so that illithids have 'always' existed, could explain beholders, displacer beasts, gibbering mouthers, and choas beasts, along with a full legion of things that look impossible, but still exist. They may have formed on that plane, and then blundered into the hole, crossing over, and merging with our world."