Most of Toril's beholders had nostrils and jointed, articulated eyestalks. The majority of beholders living on Faerûn had skin colored in cool colors - purples and blues - on the top of their bodies that graduated into earth tones further down.
īeholders of the Realms tended to be slightly larger than beholders found on other worlds, growing up to six feet in diameter where on other worlds they would average five feet wide. Because of these features, beholders were occasionally known as 'spheres of many eyes' or 'eye tyrants,' although the latter also referred to a specific type of beholder. Other than this, the main feature of a beholder's anatomy was its massive, gaping maw. Beholders were immediately identifiable, being essentially a floating head with one single, cyclops-like eye surrounded by ten smaller eye stalks.
