Wouldn’t this backstory make more sense for a ranger?

Sound more like a cleric kind of thing.

Also, dnd 2024 calls their dice roll a d20 Test.

When the military unit gets a small task to proove, they are ready for the main quest.

• scroll snapping
• unit tests
• vulnerability
• fastboot
• root access
• abstraction level
• unity framework

Mindflayers are definitly evil (from humanoid perstective) because of their species. They eat and bread brains. And they are interesting.

Clerics don’t need to choose.

Horny Bard: “I do the Lobster”

Zealot Barbarian: “I die”