Note the lack of nostrils, as well as the proliferation of teeth.Ī beholder's mouth was relatively similar to a humanoid's, but on a larger scale, containing soft palates, a muscular tongue and a row of upper and lower teeth (averaging 56 teeth in total) lining a hinged jaw. Ī clear depiction of a beholder from the front. Not all beholders possessed nostrils, those who did could breathe like humanoids, those that didn't could only breathe through their mouths. Their eyestalks were usually flexible tentacles, but varied among individuals and could instead be jointed stalks covered in rigid chitin or segmented stalks similar to the bodies of earthworms. Upon death, a beholder's skeletal structure would become brittle. īeholder 'bones' were incredibly porous and lightweight leather-like cartilage that was visually indistinguishable from their skin, but comparatively weaker, almost having the strength and durability of iron.
BEHOLDER 2 LITTLE GIRL SKIN
Upon death, the skin would harden further into a stone-like consistency.
The skin of a beholder appeared to be made out of a stony substance, as strong and durable as steel, and just as inflexible. As such, a large amount of information was available on beholder anatomy. Biology īeholders were omnivorous, genderless aliens, and a subject of great fascination for sages who studied biology and the hunters who attempted to kill them. The effects of this flight resembled those of the wizard spell levitation. īeholders were also capable of flight, in spite of their lack of wings or similar physical features, simply hovering above ground effortlessly. Although beholders lacked the capacity to see color, they had the ability to perceive even in the most darkened environment, under conditions in which a human or similar creature would be rendered blind. īecause their entire body was covered in eyes, beholders had the capacity to see in all directions at once, making it nearly impossible to ambush them while also giving them an unusually high degree of perceptive ability. Most of Toril's beholders had nostrils and jointed, articulated eyestalks. The majority of beholders living on Faerûn had skin colored in cool colors - purples and blues - on the top of their bodies that graduated into earth tones further down. īeholders of the Realms tended to be slightly larger than beholders found on other worlds, growing up to six feet in diameter where on other worlds they would average five feet wide. Because of these features, beholders were occasionally known as "spheres of many eyes" or "eye tyrants," although the latter also referred to a specific type of beholder. Other than this, the main feature of a beholder's anatomy was its massive, gaping maw. Beholders were immediately identifiable, being essentially a floating head with one single, cyclops-like eye surrounded by ten smaller eye stalks.
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