If you are using the Spelljammer concepts of beholders, I would simply classify those as beholders that have managed to use such technology to successfully colonize the surface of other worlds, away from competing races. A beholder that somehow successfully integrates itself in top side society will do its best to keep its position secure (it knows how rare this is).Top side beholders want to return to the underdark, where potential mates are, and will seek ways to gain the power necessary to accomplish this.Top side beholders are intent at keeping their presence unknown and will attempt to kill or dominate anyone that discovers them. Beholders that fail at this are forced towards the surface to survive.Beholder's main motivator is to secure safe and plentiful resources deep in the earth to propagate their own particular race (they are xenophobic).So, beholder's could work something like this: Then they could attract mates and have offspring. securing and holding on to sources of sustenance. This would be the primary motivator for any creature there. Beholders, and really any underdark creature, would be faced with extreme environmental challenges to obtain air, food, and water. Most underdark races have very limited populations and simply can't compete with billions of humans that would love to kill them. The only reason creatures would want to be in the underdark is that the surface world is too dangerous. Very few people wake up and think "I got to do stuff today to balance the forces of law and chaos." Well, what is the motivation of any creature?Ĭreatures without intelligence tend to just fill an ecological niche (or exploit them) intelligent creatures suffer the curse of needing purpose in life.Īlignment is (and I know I'll get flack for this) a very poor and unrealistic motivation.
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