Beholder

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The beholder, also known as a "sphere of many eyes" or an "eye tyrant," is the stuff of nightmares. Its eyestalks can fire beams of energy to disable or destroy its opponents. In a blink of an eye, the large central orb can disable all the magical effects of an adventurer, rendering him easy pickings.

[edit] Physical description

A Beholder is an aberration comprised of a floating spheroid body with a large fanged mouth and single eye on the front and many flexible eyestalks on the top; it was once described as "a big eye with a bunch of little eyes that eats adventurers for breakfast."

A beholder's eyes each possess a different magical ability; the main eye projects an anti-magical cone, and the other eyes use different spell-like abilities (disintegrate objects, transmute flesh to stone, cause sleep, slow motion of objects, charm animals or humanoids, cause death, induce fear, levitate objects, and cause serious wounds). Many variant beholder species exist, such as "observers", "spectators", "eyes of the deep", "elder orbs", "hive mothers", and "death tyrants"