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[AnubisXy]

One thing that always irked me a bit about Bluetspur is that Illithids require large populations of humanoids. Humanoids are a necessity, both for food and to produce more Illithids. If Bluetspur doesn't have any native humanoids, then the Illithids would have to launch frequently raids into other Domains in order to get the humanoids that they require for their basic, night-to-night survival.

[AnubisXy]

If I recall they sort of got into this in 2nd edition. I think there's a mention of it in Die Vecna Die! (which involves Vecna escaping from the Demiplane of Dread) where Ravenloft was created by ancient horrible beings ("The Dark Powers") sealed away in the depths of the Negative Energy Plane. They basically were using Demiplane of Dread as a stepping stone to get back to the Prime Material Plane. They'd pull in little pieces here and there and eventually it would get so expansive that they'd be able to enter the Demiplane and then from there cross over to the Prime Material Plane....

[AnubisXy]

Yeah, that's my takeaway too. Poor editorial oversight, and they weren't clear to the authors about how the setting had changed. Also it felt like in some of the places authors were basically allowed to do whatever they wanted, previous material be damned, and that freedom led to some weird, out-of-place stuff like Richemulot where Jacqueline wears rat slippers....