She sought to replace all life with her children, and in that sense, each beholder was a reflection of her desire to self-replicate and remake reality in her image. The Great Mother's true motivation was fairly simple the primal drive to propagate and fill the multiverse with her spawn. The purpose of her aimless journey wasn't to gather knowledge or magical secrets, since unlike deities such as Ilsensine, she believed that she already knew all that was worth knowing. She inexorably cruised through space deep in thought, always incomprehensibly gibbering in an alien protolanguage while experiencing bizarre visions. Activities Īside from birthing more beholders, the Great Mother's only other activity was drifting enigmatically in solitude throughout reality, particularly in the darker planes. Within her chamber she would spawn more beholders, eating anything that came near or progeny that stayed too long. Only the Great Mother herself knew of the location of her true lair, a massive cavern sub-plane hidden deep underneath the sinkholes and shafts. The most cruel and elderly beholder petitioners acted as the enforcers of the realm since the Great Mother herself had no interest in managing her domain. Įvil beholders and beholderkin of every type were abundant within the realm, especially those of great devotion, and preyed upon each another along with anyone else, demon or otherwise, that stumbled into it.
The walls of the realm were studded with eyes, each an eye of the Great Mother herself, indicating how gigantic she truly was. The Great Mother dwelt in the 6th layer of the Abyss known as the Realm of a Million Eyes, a cave system of innumerable twisting tunnels, many of which were vertical. The Great Mother possessed a cache of magical treasures and lore somewhere in the Outlands. Those eaten by the Great Mother would quickly be dissolved in her stomach acid, although they could still attempt to fight her from the inside. She could radiate an aura of fear, chill, repulsion or hopelessness. Her sheer mass took the brunt of most attacks, with only magical armaments being able to harm her and bludgeoning weapons being only half as effective. The Great Mother's avatar had eye rays that were equivalent to those found on normal beholders, although some were stronger and farther reaching. Befitting the deity of eye tyrants, she was a dictatorial deity said to have her own strange standards for her creations, and would destroy or devour any that she found displeasing. 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. The Great Mother's symbol, an egg with a central eye
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