Perhaps people had misunderstood creatures like beholders, even believing they belonged to the same kind as chaotic demons.
But the truth was precisely the opposite. Nearly all beholders were born Lawful Evil or Neutral Evil.
Though in Li Wei's eyes, most beholders were probably born with terminal chuunibyou.
They generally believed that only they themselves were the wisest and strongest, while all other creatures were inferior. This attitude, coupled with their formidable abilities, meant that beholders' ultimate goal was conquest and rule.
Some powerful beholders favored attack and invasion. Beholders weaker in recruitment and command would conquer through armed force alongside slaves of other races, while others cooperated with evil organizations like the Zhentarim or formed alliances with others, gaining power through control of trade and the occasional military action.
Still others came to major cities like Water-Drawing City, joined evil organizations similar to the Shadow Thieves, then gradually infiltrated these networks of spies, assassins, slave traders, and thieves, eventually ruling this vast underground kingdom.
But clearly, the beholder Jike Darkrage was not among them.
The course of his life as a beholder had been somewhat more tortuous.
To borrow a stock plot from certain biographical novels, Jike was a typical case of congenital "defect." There was something wrong with his eyes.
He had been born with double pupils.
Mm, a beholder born with twin pupils sounded pretty damn awesome.
But in reality, that was not the case at all.
Unlike the records in Blue Star's ancient mythology, where people with double pupils were generally sages, modern medicine explained that this condition was a pupillary adhesion deformity—the pupil changed from an O shape into an ∞ shape, though it did not affect the entry of light. It was also called paired pupils, and modern medicine considered it an early symptom