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Clockwork Beholder

Clockwork Beholder
eyestalks retracted.
Pushing themselves to continue building the perfect efficient
Spell-Reflecting Eye. In combat, the clockwork beholder will
guardian, inventive gnomes looked to the beholder for inspiration
typically blast its enemies with its rays. If any foe attempts to
and marveled at the aberration’s simple yet effective biological
target it with a spell or spell attack, the clockwork beholder can
design. After years of planning, acquiring expensive raw materials,
turn its central eye lens toward the caster and reflect the spell
and trial and error, they were able to build the first clockwork
back toward it.
beholder.
Death Burst. As with most gnomish inventions, the clockwork
Mechanical Tyrant. When activated, its spherical body hovers at
beholder is dangerously volatile. If destroyed, its mechanical body
all times, buoyed by steam jets below it. It has a great bulging lens
has a chance to explode, hitting anyone near it with superheated
for an eye, sitting above a large maw that contains rows of razor-
steam and shrapnel.
sharp metallic teeth. Ten retracting segmented metal stalks crown
Constructed Nature. A clockwork doesn’t require air, food, drink,
its body, each ending with a unique type of lens that can project
or sleep.
different types of energy rays. When inert, a clockwork beholder
resembles a large metallic ball with its central eye shut and its
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