Eye of Dendallen
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)
While you’re attuned to this item, you can cast the see invisibility spell at will.
Curse. When you attune to the eye of Dendallen, you’re suddenly overcome with the urge to see what it sees. Make a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw. On a success, you resist the curse and are aware of its effects but are no longer attuned to the item. On a failure, you forcefully tear out one of your own eyes, taking 4d10 necrotic damage, and allow the eye of Dendallen to crawl into its now vacant socket. If you’re already missing an eye, you’ simply let the eye crawl into the socket without taking the necrotic damage.
You can see normally through the eye of Dendallen while it’s in your socket. In addition, you have darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If you already had darkvision, the eye increases its range by 30 feet. As a bonus action, you can concentrate on looking through the eye to peer through magical darkness in this way for 1 minute. Once this property of the eye has been used, it can’t be used again until the following dusk.
Dendallen familiar. The eye also doubles as a gruesome familiar. As an action, you can command the eye to crawl out of your eye socket and move independently of you. Use the abilities described in the find familiar spell when commanding the eye of Dendallen. The eye is undead, has 5 hit points, an AC of 12, a walking and climbing speed of 20 feet, does not require air to breathe, has darkvision out to a range of 60 feet, and has a +6 bonus to Dexterity (Stealth) checks. If the eye is slain or you dismiss it, it reappears inside your open eye socket with a sickly sound. The eyeball appears pitch black if it’s slain and loses this feature as well as its benefits to your vision until the following dusk.
Unattuning to the eye or targeting it with the remove curse spell causes it to pull itself out of the socket and try to escape. Slaying the eye while it is unattuned to a creature destroys the item.
The dark eye swiveled, slightly. It was inhuman, to say the least, but its secrets were too vast to discredit.
Comments (5)
If the eye is undead, can a cleric turn it while it's in your head?
One of my players got this item tonight. I had a lot of fun describing the gruesome process of having his eye replaced. My players are big fans of items with a lot of cosmetic appeal. :D
I'll try that! Thank you :)
Hi Mr Griff! Quick inquiry : your. Jpg files are sometimes over 4.5 mb, and therefore exceed the file size of images on dndbeyond (was putting in some of these for my players). Any chance of keeping them 4.5mb or lower in the future? :) ps: I know it says 5mb max, but been having trouble uploading anything above 4.5
Hmm. Part of the problem is that these are bulk exported to make the different formats you see. If you're running into image size issues, let me suggest you run it through www.tinypng.com. Drag/drop the image in it, redownload it, and it'll be much smaller in kb. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!