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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 1929041" data-attributes="member: 2238">My initial thought when I read the question was that they were bags of devouring that had matured. The other thought that I had was that they fed off of fear and negative emotions.  The mouth is just there to invoke fear.But here is the best I can come up with:What if a beholder was not necessarily evil as per a DMs whim?  I figured that a good way to go about this if they were evil or not was that they live off of seeing beauty.  Thus they try to reach out in the world and gather as many beautiful things as they can and keep them in their lairs, and just gaze at them.  From maidens, to art, to views, they do things to gather beauty unto themselves, and when they see it, they grow in power and strength.  They study the beauty and live under the illusion that because they have so much beauty they themselves must be beautiful.  When somthing is broken, injured, aged, or otherwise if the beauty leaves it, the beholder destroys it.  If it finds a flaw in somthing, the beholder destroys it.  Basicly they are the worst of art critics and beauty pagent judges.  Though I could see them being artists with tempers too.  This angle offers the most role playing potential for the monster that I have found.Aaron.</blockquote>