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Username:

Tenball

Groups:

Registered users

Character:

Tenball

Character Race:

Beholder

Gender:

technically none

Location:

around and about

Character Portrait:

Art Credits:

I made this!

Place of Origin:

Kingdom of Grandhaven, worlds away from Rhydin

Profession:

tutor, bartender

Appearance:

A large spherical creature with one big eye set above a mouth filled with sharp teeth, and ten smaller eyes on stalks atop its body... at first glance, Tenball looks utterly horrific.

However, a second look into any of those deep blue eyes may bring surprises. The truth is that Ten is a kind and friendly soul, always ready to laugh at a good joke. Don't confuse kindness for weakness, however; they stand by those they name as friends, and can be very handy to have in a fight. Ten is also good with children.

Skills:

Holding to only one of the four tenets of beholder life, that knowledge is power, Tenball is an avid learner and a voracious reader; they have a private library which covers a variety of interests, particularly in the lore and intricacies of magic. Not being able to wield it themself, Tenball is fascinated by it and much of their collection centers around it, from scholarly treatises and manuals for novices to ancient tomes of arcane power and spellbooks written by long-dead masters of the craft. The entrance to this library is only accessible to Tenball themself, or those they allow.

Ten spends much of their time assisting the Ilnarens with their charges at Stardreamer Manor, where serving as tutor and minder (and occasionally as extra security). On Saturday evenings the beholder will normally be found tending bar at the Red Dragon Inn, and they also occasionally call for challenges in the various dueling sports.

As a beholder, Tenball can produce various effects from each of their eyes. The large one above their mouth can emit a cone-shaped field that disrupts magic, while the other ten eyes on stalks have various effects.
- disintegration (which Ten hates using because then they have to dust)
- pyrokinesis (heat vision!)
- charming (at least once to the point of making an opponent fall madly in love with them)
- sleep induction (useful when dealing with belligerent customers)
- petrification (never tell them you want to get stoned)
- "bubblevision" (creates a cloud of hallucinogenic bubbles that cover their target)
- three telekinetic eyes (two towards the front, one in back) that function in place of hands
- purple healing ray

For the longest time Tenball never used the last eye, because in most beholders that's a "death ray" and thye don't like to kill. They finally used it intending to deliver a "mercy kill" for a mortally-wounded soldier in agony, as no healers were at hand. Both Ten and the soldier were quite surprised when the man's wounds swiftly healed.

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