Occulauer, Lord of Eyes

Many entities exist beyond the veil of reality in those nameless spaces beyond the stars, plotting in darkness. Occulauer, the Lord of Eyes, is one of these entities, a god-like power with a great interest in eyes.

Occulauer, Lord of Eyes

Unlike many creatures of its type, Occulauer possesses a fixed form and can be considered conventionally sentient, though its mind is wholly alien to humanoids. It appears as an 8-foot-wide white eyeball with tendrils of red veins sprawled over its back half. It has no iris, and the pupil is the pure black of the night sky.

Occulauer is known by scholars for its peculiar interest in eyes. Many shrines to Occulauer dot the world, built in an age long past by unknown architects. These shrines resemble giant, skyward-facing eyeballs made of granite, with a bowl-like indentation where the pupil would be. If a fresh eyeball - no longer than a week old, unless otherwise preserved - is placed within the bowl, it disappears in a puff of smoke, presumably to Occulauer's domain.

A creature who makes repeated offerings to Occulauer is always rewarded. Instead of disappearing, an eye offered to Occulauer may begin to glow; if it is pressed into the disciple's forehead, it sinks into the skin and bone to become a third, fully-functional eye. As just a taste of what Occulauer has to offer, the creature can then cast detect magic at will. Further offerings of eyes grant additional powers, as shown in the following table. Intelligence is the creature's spellcasting ability for these powers.

Eyes Ability 10 ray of frost 30 true strike 60 ray of sickness 1/day 100 magic missile 1/day 150 see invisibility at will 210 ray of enfeeblement 1/day 280 darkvision (self only) at will 360 scorching ray 1/day 450 detect thoughts at will 550 clairvoyance 3/day 670 lightning bolt 1/day 800 locate creature 3/day 940 scrying 3/day 1,090 telekinesis 3/day 1,250 eyebite 1/day 1,420 flesh to stone 1/day 1,600 true seeing 1/day 1,790 disintegrate 1/day 1,990 finger of death 1/day

Occulauer especially prizes the eyes of creatures with eye-based attacks, such as Beholders and Medusae. Despite their general similarity in appearance and ability, Occulauer has no known relation to the Beholders, not does it hold them in any particular esteem. Regardless, many Beholders serve Occulauer as priests, gathering the eyes of creatures from wide and far to sacrifice to their god.

These are known as Occulytes, and show their devotion to Occulauer by slaying another Beholder and putting out their own eye before grafting the other Beholder's eye into their own now-empty socket. The new eye's Antimagic Cone no longer functions, but the Occulyte can freely cast spells, using its new central eye for the spells granted by its sacrifices to Occulaur. Occulauer also grants them the ability to choose which of their eye rays to use in combat.

A few rare non-Beholders also serve Occulauer, mostly Humans but also occasionally Medusae, Nothics, and Kuo-Toa. Occulauer cares nothing for its followers, though its shrines have a basic sentience and defend creatures who it believes will bring more eyes.