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Kython's Unblinking Witness

The eye gathers a sliver of silver radiance, then pours it through the mind rather than the flesh. Victims experience their most precious memories twisted into scenes of betrayal and pain. Velstracs use the device to erode resistance, while bored Kythons sometimes turn its beam on one another for sport.

Hazards
Simple · Divine · Level 12

Kython's Unblinking Witness

The eye gathers a sliver of silver radiance, then pours it through the mind rather than the flesh.
Spot
32
Disable
32
AC
32

At a glance

Level
12
Simple
Spot DC
32

Defences

AC
32
Fort
+22
Ref
+22
Will
+25
Hardness
20
HP
80
BT
40

Disable Expert in Occultism

Initiative +22

The hazard

The eye gathers a sliver of silver radiance, then pours it through the mind rather than the flesh. Victims experience their most precious memories twisted into scenes of betrayal and pain. Velstracs use the device to erode resistance, while bored Kythons sometimes turn its beam on one another for sport.

  • Divine
  • Magical
  • Mental
  • Planar
  • Trap
Stealth
(expert) to notice the eye before it activates; the hazard is usually concealed among hooks, chains, or other torture equipment.
Trigger
A creature enters the eye's 60-foot line of sight. The eye fires its beam at the first creature that triggers it.
Disable
Expert in Occultism, , to Disable; or dispel magic, which can counteract the eye as a 6th-rank effect. A creature must be adjacent to the eye to attempt either method.
Initiative
+22
Routine
The eye has no routine. When triggered, it fires its beam once, then becomes inactive until it resets.
Reset
The eye resets after 1 minute, regaining its beam and readying to trigger again.

Damage

Immunities

mental, object immunities

Weaknesses

cold iron 10

Effects

1

  • Memory-Splintering Beam

    DC 32

    The eye casts a 60-foot beam in a 10-foot-wide line. Each creature in the line must attempt a Will save. Critical Success: The creature is unaffected. Success: The creature takes half damage. Failure: The creature takes mental damage and is stupefied 2 for 1 minute. Critical Failure: The creature takes double damage, is confused for 1 round, and is stupefied 2 for 1 minute.

Special rules

Light That Sees Within.The eye's beam is a mental effect. Opaque cover blocks the beam, but darkness, fog, and invisibility do not.

Spotting it

Discovery

A creature that succeeds at a Perception check notices the eye's faint ticking, the hairline cracks in nearby mirrors, or the way shadows bend toward its pupil before entering its line of sight.

Perception

+22

Stop it

Signs of dangerNearby victims describe vivid memories that contradict one another. · The shadows in the room stretch toward a blank wall, even when the light source is elsewhere. · Small mirrors and polished metal show an open eye that cannot be seen directly.

Countermeasures

In short

Avoid the beam's line of sight, block the eye, or disable it with expert Occultism or dispel magic.

Its story

What it looks like

A wet, lidless eye the size of a wagon wheel, suspended in a cage of black iron hooks.

Why it is here

To torment captives, break their will, and provide grim amusement for the Kythons who oversee the torture.

Who made it

Velstrac torturers of the Shadow Plane, who fashioned it to break prisoners and amuse the Kythons during long stretches of grim routine.

Lore

Velstracs claim the eye was made to reveal the pain hidden in a victim's memories.

Where it is found

The Shadow Plane and other planar sites used by velstracs, especially torture chambers, galleries, and prison corridors.

Variants

A gallery version has several eyes that activate in sequence, each aiming at a different part of the room.
A memory-sifting version deals less damage but grants its creator a fleeting impression of the target's strongest emotional memory.
A Kython's plaything may fire only when a creature speaks, laughs, or attempts to reassure another captive.

Plot hooks

A prisoner who endured the beam now insists that one of the party members betrayed them in a memory that never happened.
A bored Kyton has left the eye active in a corridor leading to the cell of a prisoner the party needs alive.
The eye's visions reveal a real secret from a victim's past, making it unclear whether the device merely distorts memories or can also expose them.

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