After several feedings, a brain ooze divides into two nearly identical brains, each retaining only a portion of "Oozing and surging up out of that yawning trap-door in the Cyclopean crypt I had glimpsed such an unbelievable behemothic monstrosity that I could not doubt the power of its original to kill with its mere sight Even now I cannot begin to suggest it with any words at my command I might call it gigantic—tentacled—proboscidian— octopus-eyed—semi-amorphous— plastic—partly squamous and partly rugose—ugh! But nothing I could say could even adumbrate the loathsome, unholy, non-human, extra-galactic horror and hatefulness and unutterable evil of that forbidden spawn of black chaos and illimitable night As I write these words the associated mental image causes me to lean back faint and nauseated." —H.P Lovecraft & Hazel Heald, Out Of the Aeons 424 the knowledge and experiences of the parent The similarities between intellect devourers and brain oozes have not gone unnoticed, but the two species appear to have little in common beyond appearance Some theorize that brain oozes are actually the result of an ancient race’s failed attempt to achieve immortality by preserving their minds via alien technology or magic