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　Eyes of death are giant, floating, bloodshot eyeballs, just over 3’ across. They fly by some form of levitation, steady and whisper-silent. On encountering a living thing, they attempt to kill it with their deadly gaze; they particularly like to slay mages, who often have trouble dealing with the combination of a ranged attack and resistance to magic. They’ve been observed engaging in an inscrutable pattern of movement or dance, but to what end is unknown. They seem to have no other interests; notably, they neither hoard nor covet treasure. As they never negotiate or communicate, their motivations are likely to remain mysterious.

What isn’t a mystery is that the eyes of death are bitter rivals of the spheres of madness (p. 28); the two attack each other on sight. Sages speculate that both hail from the same plane, but the truth is unknown and neither eyes nor spheres seem inclined to elucidate! It’s also known that reckless wizards sometimes summon eyes of death into this world. The conjurer rarely survives the summoning, as the eyes don’t discriminate between friend and foe – only living and not-living.

ST: 5 HP: 5 Speed: 6.00
DX: 13 Will: 12 Move: 6 (Air)
IQ: 10 Per: 12
HT: 11 FP: 11 SM: 0
Dodge: 12 Parry: N/A DR: 0


Death Gaze (Resisted by HT-5): 1d toxic. This damage is Cosmic and ignores all DR! Range 20.

Traits: Acute Vision 5; Combat Reflexes; Dark Vision (Color Vision); Doesn’t Breathe; Doesn’t Eat or Drink; Doesn’t Sleep; Enhanced Dodge 2; Hyperspectral Vision; Immunity to Metabolic Hazards; Indomitable; Injury Tolerance (No Brain, No Neck, No Vitals); Magic Resistance 10; No Manipulators; See Invisible; Silence 5; Unfazeable; Vibration
Sense (Air).

Skills: Aerobatics-15; Flight-15; Stealth-14 (19 vs. Hearing if moving, 24 if motionless).

Class: Elder Thing.

Notes: The focusing lens of an eye of death can be sliced off carefully and reduced to a liquid useful for alchemical mixtures. Make an Alchemy roll to collect the lens before it dries, at -1 per minute after death; success nets a lens worth
$1d×100. Unwilling to negotiate. Truly evil.

Death From Above
　Eyes love to attack from above, even straight overhead, lurking in shadowy corners or pitch darkness and projecting their gaze down on victims below. Dark Vision, Hyperspectral Vision, and See Invisible let them see almost everything, while Vibration Sense allows them to line up a good angle of attack against foes they can’t see. Hovering silently in the dark, they’ll use their death rays to kill the opponents most dangerous to them – ranged attackers, like mages and missile weapon users – while remaining at or near maximum range.

　Eyes of death are fragile (DR 0, 5 HP), but they lack vital hit locations and are highly maneuverable. An eye can retreat upward for +4 (not just +3) to Dodge, and/or use Aerobatics for an Acrobatic Dodge (+2); see p. B398. The result is a Dodge of 14 with Aerobatics, 16 with a retreat, or 18 with both! Acute Vision 5 (giving a Vision roll of 17) and numerous special senses make surprising an eye difficult, even with magical aid.
Finally, the eye’s Magic Resistance 10 means that spells are even less likely to work than missile weapons.

Meanwhile, the eye can mow down delvers steadily.
Its death gaze cannot be dodged, blocked, or parried.
The creature simply selects a target and stares at it until it dies, although the eye might change targets first (typically to attack a more dangerous foe).
Against a party with neither good ranged-weapon capacity nor fast flight, an eye of death will live up to its name – in spades.