The Great Mother, sometimes specified as the Great Beholder Mother, was the eldritch matron deity of the beholders. Her title simply referred to her role as their progenitor rather than as an indicator of her questionable gender. Beholders themselves lacked a name for her and felt no need to give her one.
Description:
The Great Mother's avatar appeared as a gargantuan beholder, 18 ft (5.5 m) in diameter, that slowly and silently drifted through the air. Her bloated body was coated in a layer of random debris, including small stones and shells, encrusted gems, armor scraps, damaged weapons, skeletons, dragon's teeth and other refuse. It was thought that the features of the Great Mother's form were in a state of constant flux as a result of her utter complexity. Despite her ever-changing form, her presence was always enchanting to beholders since their own distorted minds remembered her as having their traits.
Personality:
Those that studied the Great Mother typically concluded that she was completely insane, lacking in the ruthless logic possessed by mortal beholders. In truth, she was not only intelligent but dangerously so, the method behind her madness simply being beyond the ability of most beings to understand. Ironically, her mind wasn't even divided into two halves, like most beholders. Still, while not crazy or mindless, the Great Mother was a creature of utter chaos and capricious whimsy, acting primarily on instinct and impulse.
Following:
Beholder clerics were incredibly rare, not simply because their antimagic eye normally neutralized any attempts to utilize divine magic, but because their minds normally lacked both the will and ability to conceive of being dedicated to higher powers. As such, the Great Mother lacked an official priesthood to conduct rituals and celebrations or lead the devoted, nor did the Great Mother grant spells to her spawn, given the plethora of magical powers they already inherited. What beholder priests did exist received powers only for use in times of conflict, whether between each other or with other threats.
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