FREQUENCY: Very rare
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Dungeon Level VII])
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: 2
MOVE: 9"
HIT DICE: 12
% IN LAIR: Nil
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: [SB]
DAMAGE/ATTACK: [SB]
SPECIAL ATTACKS: [SB]
SPECIAL DEFENSES: [SB]
MAGIC RESISTANCE: [SB]
INTELLIGENCE: High
ALIGNMENT: Chaotic evil
SIZE: M
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: VII | 2,850 + 16

The eye of fear and flame is a hooded man-sized figure;
the face is always invisible,
the interior of the hood being seen as an opaque black screen.
It constantly stalks the underworld seeking lawful or lawful/neutral parties or individuals.
It will command an individual,
or a member of a party,
to perform evil deeds (speaking in the alignment tongue appro. to the individual addressed since it has permanent know alignment power and can speak all alignment languages).
The nature of the deeds will vary but they will be uniformly evil.
If the eye is attacked, or its commands are not obeyed, it will CAST back the hood to reveal a bare skull with a red jewel in one eye-socket and black jewel in the other.

The red gem unleashes a 12-dice fireball once every three melee rounds,
while the black gem acts as a fear wand every melee round.
The gems are worth 1,000-2,000 gp each,
though they lose their properties when removed from the skull or when the creature is killed.

If melee is going against the creature it has the power to transfer to the Ethereal Plane,
taking two melee rounds to do so,
where it will try to make its escape.
It has no means of fighting hand-to-hand.

If the spells blindness or power word: blind are CAST on the eye,
they will be reflected back to the caster with no loss of power.

It is said that the eyes of fear and flame were either created by the CE gods for the destruction of lawfuls,
or by the lawful/neutral gods for their testing.
The truth is hidden.
It is rumoured that only about twenty of these creatures exist.

<Don Turnbull notes that these are not undead.>
 

       by Hugh Kernohan