Beholder

Description Edit

An evil aberration, a beholders' bodies consist of a hovering skull with a wide and toothy maw, an enormous central eye, and ten independently moving eyes at the end of their own eyestalks.

Abilities Edit

• Immunities:  The "prone" condition.
• Senses:  Darkvision.
• Languages:  Deep Speech; Undercommon.
• Attacks
  • Antimagic Cone:  The beholder can negate magic within a 150-ft cone in front of its central eye.
    • Also negates the effects of its own eye rays within that area.
  • Bite:  The beholder can bite at a target with its giant, toothy maw.
  • Eye Rays:  A beholder has ten different eyes attached to its head, each of which can emit a different magical ray at separately selected targets.

• Legendary Action:  A beholder can use one of its eye rays at the end of another character's turn.

Known Beholders Edit

• K'Varn came to the Material Plane through a rift between dimensions, bringing a Horn of Orcus with him.
• Unknown beholder (possibly called Yar'Voss^[spelling?] based on what its servant said as it died^{[citation needed]}) in "The Sunken Tomb" (1x44).

Trivia Edit

• Due to Beholders being Product Identity of Wizards of the Coast under the Open Game Licence, they are replaced with unspecified extraplanar aberrations in the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Guide.

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