Dungeons & Dragons/Monsters/Alhoon

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the alhoon (illithilich) is a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter.

Publication history
The alhoon (illithilich) first appeared in the second edition for the Forgotten Realms setting in the Menzoberranzan boxed set, in the booklet "Book One: The City" (1992), and reprinted in Monstrous Compendium Annual Volume Three (1996). The creature was further detailed in the Illithiad (1998).

The alhoon (illithilich) appeared in third edition in Monsters of Faerûn (2001) and Lords of Madness (2005).

Description
An alhoon is essentially an illithid that chooses to focus on developing arcane abilities in addition to its psionic ones, eventually becoming both undead and a mage. In illithid society, illithids who choose to develop arcane abilities become outcasts and they may eventually transform themselves into powerful undead creatures with formidable psionic and arcane abilities.