Editing Beholder (section)

==Similar Monsters==
Beholders are not the only monsters that look like floating orbs with eyes.
* [[Argos]]: Introduced in [[Spelljammer]], and said to come from the same region of Wildspace as beholders. Basically an intelligent [[Gibbering Mouther]] that can shoot beholder-style eye rays. For whatever reason, the MM says it smells like roses.
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* [[Astral Dreadnought]]: A huge predator that lives in the [[Astral Plane]] that has a single eye with anti-magic abilities similar to a beholder's central eye.  Relation to beholders unknown.
* [[Deepspawn]]: An orb with six large tentacles and several retractable eye stalk.  Three of it's tentacles end in mouths, and the other three can wield weapons.  It has the ability to give birth to loyal clones of creatures it has previously eaten, making them useful for villains who want to populate their dungeons with a variety of monsters.  Relation to beholders unknown.
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* [[Feyr]] (also spelled Fihyr in some [[splatbook]]s): A living manifestation of nightmares that forms when a large number of people in an area all have nightmares in one night.  It has a roughly spherical body covered in eyes, mouths, and tentacles.  No relation to beholders.
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* [[Gas Spore]]: Not a true beholder or beholderkin, but a [[fungus]] that resembles a beholder.  May have been created by a beholder mage, or may be a fungus that took on the form of the beholder that it fed on, or maybe it's just mundane evolutionary mimicry. Beholders sometimes cultivate them in their cities for defense.
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* Gibbering Orb: An epic version of the [[Gibbering Mouther]].  An amorphous orb covered in mouths and eyes, which have eye rays similar to a beholder.  Possibly is the common ancestor of beholders and gibbering mouthers, though this would conflict with the belief that the Great Mother created beholders. Fourth edition also introduced the Gibbering Abomination, a middle ground between the mouther and the orb which also has eye rays.
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* [[Lurking strangler]]: These creatures are to beholders what monkeys are to humans.  A tiny aberration that looks like a pair of flying eyeballs connected by a cord of muscle.  It likes to strangling sleeping enemies to death, and it can put enemies to sleep with one of its two eye rays.  Beholders sometimes keep these things as pets.
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* [[Thagar]]: Also known as the Beholdereater, it is a predator that eats beholders.  Is a giant orb covered in eyes with several mouths on the ends of stalks.  It does not have any eye powers, but it is immune to mind affecting magic and highly resistant to it's body being physically affected by magic, so there isn't much a beholder can do against it.
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* [[Tinkerer]]: Not related to [[Tinker Gnome]]s.  These are strange floating balls with six eyes and four arms with three digits each and a large mouth and can move around both by floating and bouncing.  These creatures are obsessed with collecting magic items and improving things, including unwilling living creatures.  They are useful on Spelljamming ships not just for their ability to turn people into cyborgs but also for their ability to remove pollution from the air as they feed mainly on impurities in the air, though they are also capable of eating human food and really enjoy candy.  Relation to beholders is unknown.
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