Skixtalq

Skixtalq, also known as Skixtalq the Obscurant was one of the powerful beholders in Faerûn.

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Skixtalq was the Chosen of the beholder god Gzemnid, that was said to send vision to it. For its position Skixtalq was greatly respected in Zokir and the rulers of the city regularly seek its counsel. Skixtalq can be considered a kind of sage being the hive' preeminent acquirer of knowledge. It acquired it moniker because Skixtalq's relentless efforts to cancel knowledge about beholder in the surface; often it charmed agents target libraries or sage, destroying tomes about and silenced arcane scholars that studied about.