Waste liquid, devoid of nourishment and oxygen, would then drain back into the mouth to be expelled, or more likely dribbled out steadily. The beholder's diaphragm pumped the digested food, combined with air from the lungs around the body through a system of fine arteries to nourish the organs.
įood was liquefied in the beholder's two stomachs and pumped through a intestine-like system up to the lung where these intestines thinned out to a hair's breadth and mixed the food with air.
A beholder could store at least 600 pounds (270 kilograms) of food in its stomachs at any time. For example, if a beholder ate 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of food, only 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) of that would go towards its daily intake needs, and the rest would be digested over the course of the next five days without it needing to eat anything else. Additionally, a beholder's digestive system was capable of storing excess consumed food to process as needed at a rate of 20 pounds (9.1 kilograms) per day. While they required, on average, about 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms) of food and 2 gallons (7.6 liters) of fluid per day, an otherwise healthy individual could typically survive over twenty days without food or drink before dying of starvation or thirst. It had been observed that older beholder's brains gained ridges. The brain and nervous system was where magical energies were stored, amplified, and directed to the eyestalks. Its two lobes (known as "dweomerlobes") descended downwards to the left and right from the center like horns and had a complicated central nervous system surrounding it. The beholder brain was similar in appearance to that of a humanoid's, but wider, capable of reaching a diameter of up to 4 feet (1.2 meters). Unlike a humanoid heart that pumps blood around the body constantly, beholders had a central 'blood sac' that, in conjunction with a powerfully muscled diaphragm, pushed blood into the beholder's blood vessels, then pulled the blood back into the sac. īeholders had one lung, and two stomachs. Said teeth are long and thin however, designed for ripping and tearing rather than for chewing. Note the lack of nostrils, as well as the proliferation of teeth.Ī beholder's mouth was relatively similar to a humanoid's, but on a larger scale, containing soft palates, a muscular tongue and a row of upper and lower teeth (averaging 56 teeth in total) lining a hinged jaw. Ī clear depiction of a beholder from the front. Not all beholders possessed nostrils, those who did could breathe like humanoids, those that didn't could only breathe through their mouths. Their eyestalks were usually flexible tentacles, but varied among individuals and could instead be jointed stalks covered in rigid chitin or segmented stalks similar to the bodies of earthworms. Upon death, a beholder's skeletal structure would become brittle. īeholder 'bones' were incredibly porous and lightweight leather-like cartilage that was visually indistinguishable from their skin, but comparatively weaker, almost having the strength and durability of iron.
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Upon death, the skin would harden further into a stone-like consistency. The skin of a beholder appeared to be made out of a stony substance, as strong and durable as steel, and just as inflexible. As such, a large amount of information was available on beholder anatomy. Biology īeholders were omnivorous, genderless aliens, and a subject of great fascination for sages who studied biology and the hunters who attempted to kill them. The effects of this flight resembled those of the wizard spell levitation. īeholders were also capable of flight, in spite of their lack of wings or similar physical features, simply hovering above ground effortlessly. Although beholders lacked the capacity to see color, they had the ability to perceive even in the most darkened environment, under conditions in which a human or similar creature would be rendered blind. īecause their entire body was covered in eyes, beholders had the capacity to see in all directions at once, making it nearly impossible to ambush them while also giving them an unusually high degree of perceptive ability. Most of Toril's beholders had nostrils and jointed, articulated eyestalks. The majority of beholders living on Faerûn had skin colored in cool colors - purples and blues - on the top of their bodies that graduated into earth tones further down. īeholders of the Realms tended to be slightly larger than beholders found on other worlds, growing up to six feet in diameter where on other worlds they would average five feet wide. Because of these features, beholders were occasionally known as "spheres of many eyes" or "eye tyrants," although the latter also referred to a specific type of beholder. Other than this, the main feature of a beholder's anatomy was its massive, gaping maw. Beholders were immediately identifiable, being essentially a floating head with one single, cyclops-like eye surrounded by ten smaller eye stalks.
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