![]() ![]() For instance, where a prideful, confident human might be cowed by a serious threat, the arrogance of a beholder knows no such bounds: it believes that it is superior to every other creature, even including other beholders. Some of the behaviors and motivations that beholders exhibit are analogous to those of humans and other intelligent creatures. Inside the comfortable confines of its subterranean lair, a beholder is nearly unassailable thanks to the combination of its peerless intellect and the brutal effects of its eye rays. ![]() These bizarre creatures are possessed of alien intelligence, inhuman forms of perception, and the ability to shape reality through force of will-or even by their mere presence. ![]() To those who would seek to conquer beholders or merely understand them, nearly everything about their quarry is unfathomable. Qrr'zarq, a mind flayer who worked in Xanathar's Thieves' Guild in the late 15 th century DR, had plans to turn the Xanathar into a mindwitness.Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures Normally dwelling underground, mindwitnesses could be encountered as solitary creatures, in pairs, or in groups as large as six. They were known to ally with flumphs and other telepathic beings such as demons. As part of the ceremorphosis process, mindwitnesses were imprinted with absolute devotion and submission to commands, so if separated from its mind flayer masters, a mindwitness would seek out other creatures to serve. The main purpose of mindwitnesses within illithid colonies was to improve and accelerate telepathic communication, since mindwitnesses were capable of maintaining a telepathic link with up to seven other creatures simultaneously. Īfter stunning or otherwise befuddling its target, a mindwitness would then attempt to attach all its tentacles to its opponent's head so as to extract its brain, instantly killing it (barring creatures with multiple heads, such as ettins and hydras). If forced into melee combat, a mindwitness was able to resort to attacking physically with its tentacles. ![]() In addition to the abilities granted it by its eyes, a mindwitness was also able to use the following psionic spells: charm monster, detect thoughts, levitate, and suggestion. Like a normal beholder, each eye had a different power, namely: charm monster, charm person, disintegrate, fear, finger of death, flesh to stone, inflict moderate wounds, sleep, slow, and telekinesis. Ī mindwitness would typically begin by unleashing a mind blast on its opponent, then follow up with eye rays from its ten stalked eyes. In combat, a mindwitness behaved, unsurprisingly, much like a combination of mind flayer and beholder using both the flight and eye rays of a beholder, and the illithid's fearsome psionic and brain extraction abilities. Ī mindwitness was able to communicate telepathically with any creature that had a language, and was itself able to speak both its own language and Common. Mindwitnesses also had an innate resistance to spells and were able to project an antimagic field in a cone in front of them. Its many eyes granted it 360 degree vision, preventing it from being flanked and making it generally very difficult to avoid being spotted by one. Ī mindwitness's body was, like that of a beholder, naturally buoyant, allowing it to fly and granting it effects much like that of a feather fall spell. However, a mindwitness's mind flayer influence made an already horrifying creature arguably even more so its fanged mouth was replaced with one more akin to that of a lamprey, and this maw was surrounded by four large octopus-like tentacles. A mindwitness greatly resembled its beholder "parent" an orb-shaped being 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, with a large central eye on its body, and ten smaller eyes on stalks emerging from the top. ![]()
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