Eye of Chaos

Eye of Chaos

Size: Variable (Usually around 3' diameter)

Weight: Variable (Usually around 70 lbs)

Strength: Poor

Agility: Very poor

Health: Average

Intelligence: Very poor

Willpower: Average

Skills: None known

Very mysterious. There are intelligent beings dwelling in the chaotic realms, but by their account, these creatures are not natives of their world. It's as though rather than crossing over through dimensional rifts, these...creatures are actually generated by the rift itself!

-Elric Hartson, monster researcher

Outside of understood dimensional space lies a realm of raw matter and energy, the unrefined building blocks of reality as we know it. Poorly understood and seldom studied, these “chaotic realms” are studied only by the most ambitious scholars and adventurers.

Under natural circumstances, the chaotic realms have no noticeable influence on the world as a whole, but in areas where the fabric of reality is damaged by strong space-bending magics, sometimes...things can bleed into our reality. Such “chaos spawn” take a near infinite variety of shapes, but seem to gravitate towards certain forms. One of the most common of these are the roughly spherical eyes of chaos.

As with most chaos spawn, eyes come in a near infinite variety of forms. Some are large, some are small, some are covered in spikes. The defining features are a roughly spherical shape, with colored rings on the “front,” giving the appearance of an eye. They float about via a presumably magic power, and their bodies have a hard but waxy consistency. They do not seem to bleed or feel pain, but disintegrates into nothingness upon sustaining heavy physical damage.

All attempts to communicate with them have failed, and they behave in an extremely single-minded manner. They show no signs of fear, mercy, or self-preservation. Upon detecting an intelligent creature, they with move directly towards it, and once within roughly sixty feet of their target, focus their gaze upon them.

This focused gaze only seems to affect one being at a time, and has two generally harmful effects. The first of these is a disruption of magical energies within the target, briefly preventing them from casting spells, and possibly disrupting spells in effect upon them. The second effect varies, depending on the eye. Each eye of chaos has one of the following effects, which typically take eight to fifteen seconds to have their full effect on a victim. After this time, the effects are irreversible, but victims will naturally recover if removed from the eye's gaze before then, typically taking one to three hours of recovery time per second of exposure.

01-20	The target's body shrinks and weakens. At full effect, the target is transformed into a small figurine, roughly a tenth their original size, made of a fragile, gelatinous substance. This substance is extremely fragile, and may break if even picked up roughly. If it breaks, the target's consciousness enters the creature or object it broke against. This can result in split personalities or sentient objects.
21-40	The target becomes increasingly disoriented. At full effect, their body disintegrates as they become a being of pure mental energy, sustained by the thoughts of those around them. They can only be seen and heard by those of exceptional psychic sensitivity. They cannot directly interact with physical matter, but retain any magical or psychic ability they had.
41-60	The target weakens and tires. At full effect they die. If their body is left intact, they will rise again as an undead creature within one to eight hours. Their mind remains intact, but their body will rot if they do not feed on the life force of others.
61-80	The target's body begins to stretch and distort. At full effect, their body becomes thin and lanky. Their limbs, neck, and torso are two to three times their original length, but no thicker.
81-100	The target's body softens and loses definition. At full effect, they become an amorphous fleshy blob. They can crawl, slowly absorb organic matter and sense vibrations in the air and ground, but speaking and fine manipulation are very difficult.