![]() Indeed, the Great Mother was a jealous and egotistical intellectual that refused to acknowledge even the notion that she could be mistaken. Some scholars speculated that the Great Mother was not unable to convey her knowledge, but simply wouldn't provide it to lower-lifeforms. She was said to be omniscient according to beholders and did, in truth, possess exclusive hidden lore, but seemed to be so knowledgeable that she was incapable of sharing it with any but the most intelligent entities, much less inferior beings. Often times, the Great Mother philosophized to herself about the nature of chaos and evil and was rumored to be the greatest sage on the subjects. Still, while not crazy or mindless, the Great Mother was a creature of utter chaos, capricious whimsy, and incoherent thought patterns, acting primarily on instinct and impulse. Ironically, her mind wasn't even divided into two halves, like most beholders. In truth, she was not only intelligent but dangerously so, the method behind her madness simply being beyond the ability of most beings to understand. Those that studied the Great Mother typically concluded that she was completely insane, lacking in the ruthless logic possessed by mortal beholders. ![]() Despite her ever-changing form, her presence was always enchanting to beholders since their own distorted minds remembered her as having their traits. It was thought that the features of the Great Mother's form were in a state of constant flux as a result of her utter complexity. Her bloated body was coated in a layer of random debris, including small stones and shells, encrusted gems, armor scraps, damaged weapons, skeletons, dragon's teeth and other refuse. The Great Mother's avatar appeared as a gargantuan beholder, 18 ft (5.5 m) in diameter, that slowly and silently drifted through the air. Along with their positive-energy equivalent, Death Dragons are the pinnacle of the Carnal Dragons, dragons attuned to aspects of the flesh, representing half of the conflict from which the lesser Carnal Dragons are born.The Great Mother's symbol, an egg with a central eye Universally feared, but rarely seen outside of the Outer Planes, Death Dragons feed on the vital essence of all living things often times, this hunger leads then to ravage the planes of outsiders born from mortal souls, absorbing the life-force of angels, demons, devils, and more with equal zeal. They turn this absorbed essence into a weapon against those who oppose them, releasing a phantasmal gyre of souls it has consumed, or devouring the souls of its opponents itself, adding them to the vortex. Death dragons, though vicious and unquestionably evil, are not cruel beings, facing adversaries with a cold, detached attitude, treating any opponent with equal apathy, whether a Celestial General or a human child. Crits are very hard to optimize (because they don't stack, and require a confirmation roll, and because so many enemies are immune). ![]() Ultimately, the activity of Death Dragons is vital to maintaining interplanar balance despite the local or even planar devastation they may cause. And enemies that are immune to crits are immune to Sneak Attack. Pathfinder classes are, on average, slightly stronger than their 3.5e equivalents, so MAYBE drop a beholders CR by 1 But youd be using the updated versions of spells for the beholders SLAs, so theyd probably be the same CR. They are mostly given free rein by deities or other powers that monitor their actions some, however, overstep their bounds and have to be destroyed. ago Iirc it’s ac is really low for a boss monster. Despite lacking wings, they are fully capable of flight.
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