The eye of the deep can shoot both of its magical eye rays at a spot of its choice that it can see within 120 feet of it, creating a twisting pattern of colors that weaves through the air. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage.Ĭreate Illusion (Recharge 5-6). Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. The eye of the deep can makes three attacks: one with its bite and two with its pincers.īite. The eye of the deep can breathe only underwater. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. At the start of each of its turns, the eye of the deep decided which way the cone faces and whether the cone is active.Īny creature that starts their turn in the cone must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be stunned and blinded for 1 minute. The eye of the deep's central eye creates a 30-foot cone of blinding light. Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 17īlinding Eye.Many have developed ways of ignoring the other beholder-kin's disfigurations, some close their eyes, others refuse to look directly at the other, and a few even choose to hum a song loudly as a distraction. This relationship is tenuous at best and if a hive mother is killed, beholders and beholder-kin will immediately begin destroying each other even if there are other threats present.ĭespite the beholder-kins knowledge that they alone are perfect, sometimes beholder-kin of similar form can work with another. This puts forth a huge problem in beholders and beholder-kins in working together, though some beholders, like hive mothers, are so powerful that they can force beholder and beholder-kin to not see their differences and work together. No matter what form a beholder-kin takes, it knows that it is the perfect form while all others are horrifyingly disfigured only suited for slaughter. When a new type of beholder-kin is formed, it takes the natural world around it and pushes it into the bizarre and horrifying. Its a realm of horrifying reality that takes our preconceptions and destroys them and our minds. Some say this is because they are from the Far Realm, a world outside of the mundane and magical. Whereas a crab would only have mundane pincers, a beholder-kin may have a mouth forming on the inside of a pincer or instead of teeth would have hundreds of tiny pincers in its mouth.īeholder-kin take things that are natural and corrupt it.

No matter what new form they take from the beholder, these beholder-kin take nature and put a horrifying spin on it. Some beholder-kin have strange crustacean-like pincers, others have no eyestalks, and others have adapted to riding insects as mounts. Beholders develop new abilities, appendages, and appearances based on where they find themselves in the world. Because there are so many different kinds of beholder-kin, only a few people know anything about them and even less are prepared to fight one.Ĭorruption of Nature. Almost every beholder-kin takes on the horrifying form of a beholder, a spherical body with a cluster of eyestalks, a central eye capable of horrifying magic, and a toothy, gaping maw that never stops hungering for food.īeholder-kin are just as horrifying as the normal beholder, and sometimes even more so. The otherworldly nature of beholders carries over into what many researchers can only call their cousins.

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