Tyrannœil

A tyrannœil , sometimes called spectator or eye tyrant , is a fantastic Créature created for the Roleplay Donjons and dragons . It is one of the oldest monsters, most traditional and most known of the play.

It appears for the first time in 1975 in Greyhawk , the first supplement of Keeps and dragons, and appears on the cover. The tyrannœil was most detailed in supplements of the second edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the years 1990, inter alia in supplements of the decoration of countryside Spelljammer.

Origins

Contrary to the majority of the monsters of D&D which are drawn from various mythologies (like the dragons) or of novels of Fantasy (like the orcs), the tyrannœil was created for D&D. It was imagined by Terry Kuntz, the brother of Rob Kuntz, and its characteristics for the play were detailed by Gary Gygax.

The tyrannœil was then modified by the illustrator Keith Parkinson, who gave him armor-plated scales and ocular stalks similar to those of a Arthropode. Jeff Grubb was based on the illustrations of Parkinson to create the semiones of Spelljammer.

Physical description

The tyrannœil is presented in the form of a Sphère floating in the air, with for only external bodies a large mouth full with teeth, a large eye just above the mouth, and ten small eyes assembled on stalks, on the top of the sphere.

Each eye of the creature has a magic capacity: the central eye emits a cone of antimagie, and the ten small eyes can each one launch a different ray. All these rays are dangerous with the combat, and some of these eyes have particularly destroying capacities, like the Désintégration or the Pétrification.

There exist many creatures connected with the tyrannœils, or semi-tyrannœils, described in many supplements of Keeps and dragons.

Among these subspecies, one finds:

To kiss Death: also called Slaughterer , or Eye of Terror , this beholder has tentacles nozzles of blood in the place of stalks. They drive out with the sense of smell and their central eye does not have any magic capacity other but the infravision. They are paranoiac and xenophobe.
Eye the Depths
Eye-ball
Gauth
Spectator
Mother of hive
Directing Astereatre
Inspector
Foreman
Man-lens

Company

The tyrannœils are extremely xenophobic and violent one, and live in undergrounds like Ombreterre. Their underground communities are often in wild war with their neighbors.

They venerate an insane and dominating goddess, the Large Mother, who is being the 6th layer of the Abysses itself and is also called the Monde to the million eyes . Their only another known divinity is the rebel Gzemnid, god of gases, the fogs, and the fraud.

The tyrannœil in the decorations of countryside

Eberron

In Eberron , the tyrannœils are rare. They are originating in Khyber, the underground world, and were created by the Daelkir S like mobile artillery platforms.

forgotten Kingdoms

The tyrannœils appear in the decoration of countryside of the forgotten Royaumes . They try to control many sectors of the company there. In particular, of many tyrannœils belong to the Zhentarim, some work with the Red Sorciers of Thay and a particularly powerful tyrannœil, called Xanathar, controls the guild of robbers of Port-Cranium, the underground city below Eauprofonde. The tyrannœils also fight to dominate the Outreterre, from where the majority are originating. They have in Outreterre a large city, Ooltul.

Spelljammer

In Spelljammer , the tyrannœils are one of the major races to travel of planet planet. They however deliver a civil war to purify their race. Indeed, in addition to hating the other races, the tyrannœils drive out the least variations of appearance among the others tyrannœils. Each nation tyrannœil sees the others as wretched copies to be destroyed costs which costs.

Solitary tyrannœils appear by far in far, often solitary refugees. Most famous of them the Large one is Luigi, which works as tenant of the Rock'n'roll of Bral.

The vessels tyrannœils carry sometimes a large ram, or are not armed, apart from the rays of the transported tyrannœils. The vessels are directed and propelled by special tyrannœils, the " orbii" (orbus in the singular), of the squat and albino creatures.

References

Aaron Allston. I, Tyrant (TSR, 1996).

Eric Cagle. " Worshipers off the Forbidden." Dragon #296 (Paizo Publishing, 2002).

Andy Hakes, Bruce R. Cordell, and Thomas Mr. Reid. Guide of the legendary characters (Wizards off the Coast, 2002).

Zeb Cook, and Al monstrous Bestiary (TSR, 1989).

Assembles Cook, Jonathan Tweet, and Skip Williams. monstrous Bestiary (Wizards off the Coast, 2000).

Demokopoliss, Dougal " Ecology off the Spectator, The" Dragon #139 (TSR, 1988).

ED Greenwood and Roger E Moore. " The Ecology off the Beholder." Dragon #76 (TSR, 1983).

Gary Gygax and Robert Kuntz. Supplement I: Greyhawk (TSR, 1975).

Mearls, Michael. " Eye Wares: Potent Powers off the Beholders." Dragon #313 (Paizo Publishing, 2003).

Doug Stewart. monstrous Bestiary (TSR, 1994).

James Wyatt, and Rob Heinsoo. Monsters of Faerûn (Wizards off the Coast, 2001).

Richard Baker, James Jacobs, Steve Winter, Masters of the madness

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