Eylor

The hills don't have eyes, the hills ARE eyes.

There is a jupiter-sized being the Splugorth call Eylor. Its location is a closely guarded secret by the Splugorth because its eyes are extremely valuable.
To put it as concisely as possible, Eylor is a giant eye, covered in more eyes, which are covered in more eyes in turn.
Unknown to the Splugorth, there was a rift connecting Earth to Eylor, swapping some landscape between them. It was only about a half kilometer across and a couple hundred meters deep, but it was large enough for the portion of the living planet being to maintain itself on Rifts Earth. In fact, it is not just staying alive, it is thriving. And due to the reduced gravity, many of the eyes are growing on stalks and bulging up from the land.

Geography

Hidden among the natural landscape of Earth, between hills and forests, lies an expanse of spherical mounds. One large mound the size of stadium dominates the area near the middle. On and around it are other mounds ranging from the size of a house to the size of a basketball. The smaller they are the more of their spherical surface is exposed, as if they were bulging from the surface, attempting to burst forth. Smaller spheres, down to the size of baseballs look to have bulged completely out of the surface and litter the landscape on stalks and tendrils, some having bent over and resting on the ground.
These spheres are eyes, covered in thick slitted membrane like eyelids. The eyes blink and watch and stare at the world around them. is there any driving intelligence?
Whatever liquid lubricates the eyes drips from the corners of these slits and tends to pool in the dips and folds of the surface, creating rivulets and pools.

Fauna & Flora

The surface is more akin to stony leather than stony soil. In fact, the entire area is a living being to which the eyes belong. The Splugorth called the being Eylor when it was part of its original whole. What name this detached portion calls itself or will be called is unknown.

Plants and animals partaking of the eyes' tears over a long period of time become addicted to them and slowly warp into mana-infused mutations of what they were, simial to Grotesks, but not as deranged. They will not venture from the source and will defend it until they die, leaving behind a corpse of concentrated mana-infused raw materials for the next plant or beast to consume; restarting the process. In this manner the eyes keep a constant and vigilant defense force.

Natural Resources

The pools of lubricating liquid that form on the surface is a salty mix of mana-infused water. It contains a number of compounds giving it a gel-like and eventually crusty consistency as the waters dry up or are absorbed. Among these compounds are suspended proteins and fats, making it somewhat nutritious, but not nutritious enough to sustain life by itself.
The crust that remains is a concentrated form of crystallized mana and can be crushed into a powder with unknown uses.
Animals and plants that eat, drink, or otherwise absorb the liquid, gel and crust over long periods of time can become mana-infused, warped versions of themselves.

The native landscape of Eylor:

Eylor the Planet Being by Michael Gustovich

Alternative Name(s)

Heretofore undiscovered, unknown and unnamed. Will the players give it a name?

Type

Region

Location under

North America

The eyes will watch the world around them, constantly focusing from one thing to the next. If someone enters the field of vision of an eye, it will follow them. until they leave the field of vision or something else gets its attention. In this way, the silent ayes have a tendancy to be quite spooky as they follow creatures, wind-blown leaves, and even the coulds cross through their territory. Are they mindless or are they recording what they see, or is there some other intelligence at work?
The eyes are supernatural in nature and will cast a Greater Protection spell upon themselves if attacked. If the eyes see the attack coming, they can try to cast it before they are hit, otherwise they will do so in reaction to being attacked. Eyes larger than size 6 add the equivalent of a raise for every size larger. The Eyes of Eylor are an extremely valuable arcane resource and the Splugorth use them to power their biowizardry devices.
Each eye inherently has the power of total recall and can cast Greater Protection on itself, even after being separated from the being. However, once separated, they must be charged like any device. Separated eyes are otherwise blank, having no will of their own, and no seeming intelligence. What they lack in inherent powers, however, they make up for in programmable powers. As they are blank, they can be filled with instructions and abilities and will carry out these instructions without a thought or conscience. This is what makes them so valuable.

Outside of the planet-being Eylor, these are the only eyes in existence (that we know of).

If the Splugorth stumble upon the now-dead portion of Rifts Earth on Eylor that took the place of the portion of Eylor that is now on Rifts Earth, they will assuredly know that their monopoly on eyes will be threatened and will do EVERYTHING in their power to find it, harvest it and/or destroy it from getting into anyone else's possession.