Kirukeskai

Kirukeskai, also called the Eye, was an elder orb who was the first beholder to hold The Xanathar as a title instead of a name.

Description
Kirukeskai was an elder orb whose body advanced to the limit of a beholder and was therefore very big for its race. It was an elder orb of very advanced age and was wrinkled specimen of its species.

Personality
Beholders in general were paranoid creatures. Kirukeskai's case was noteworthy even by that standard. Beholders generally did not step out of their homes and worked generally through intermediaries, or that it was not the first one to rule their criminal organization. Another group that knew of the former fact were the eleven eyes of Xanathar, though it was not clear whether they knew of the latter fact. Beholders in general were megalomaniac creature and Kirukeskai was no exception. Beholders in general believed themselves to be intelligent. The Eye was intelligent and a competent businessman. Kirukeskai was an cruel parent who cahrmed its offspring into subservience and turned them later into death tyrants. Elder orbs were beholders who were immortal and could not die due to natural causes. Their aging stopped after a long period of age-induced physical deterioration. It was not clear whether the Eye did not know about the properties of an elder orb or whether it was not aware that it was one but fact was it feared death from old age. It drank potions of longevity and ordered the kidnapping of mighty clerics to cast heal or regenerate on it. The former was a completely needless operation due to its immortality but the latter allowed it to temporarily offset parts of its aging effects.

Physical Abilities
Kirukeskai was an old elder orb. This meant that it was not as agile as other beholders and while it was big, it was not much physically stronger than other beholders because its advanced age deteriorated its physical capacities.

Magical Abilities
Kirukeskai was old and as mentioned above, his body underwent deterioration. Two of his eyestalks, the ones which allowed him the casting of disintegrate and flesh to stone, completely stopped working and needed magical care as administered by aforementioned kidnapped priests to work. A third eyestalk, the one allowing the Eye to cast charm person, worked only half of the time.

Every elder orb had sorcerous powers. The Eye's were strong even by that race's standards. It could additionally cast death fog, demand, dimension door, ESP, fly, spell turning, wall of fog, and wall of force once per day.

Tactics
As a general rule, the Eye did not kill its enemies outright. Instead it tried to keep enemies alive for interrogation purposes.

Possessions
The Eye wore a ring of proof against detection and location on one of its eyestalks and used beads of force, a cloak of arachnida, oil of timelessness, a ring of feather falling, a staff of curing, and a wand of lightning. It also carried with it a bag of holding of the maximum size. Its most unique item was one that worked on one end like a vorpal longsword and on the other end a gauntlet that worked with the missile storing property, which it could use like a hand.