Vaxall

Vaxall is a beholder and a member of Twisted Rune. When Gorion's Ward and party accidently enter the Twisted Rune Hideout, they will be acknowledged by the lich Shangalar. After a brief declaration, the lich will call forth Vaxall and other available members to dispose of you - the intruders.
Vaxall has several potentially disabling, damaging and deadly beholder blast attacks, delivered as projectile rays from the many eye stalks protruding from the creature. The most notable of which is the beholder Anti-Magic Ray. See the Info Box for the variety of beholder Rays, fired rapidly at a target, sometimes more than once per round.
Its central eye is the key to the portal which will allow you to leave the hideout and return to Athkatla.
==See also==
*Layene
*Revanek
*Shangalar
*Shyressa
==Mod content==
===Mods:===
Installation of Sword Coast Stratagems mod revises the creature, and the most apparent changes occur if you have installed the "Smarter Beholders" component. Obviously, the Beholder will be more intelligent, recognize threats and look for party vulnerabilities. It is actually an Elder Orb now, with spell casting abilities and fully functional eye stalk powers. It will pursue party members and try to move out of gas clouds. Please go to the Beholder article where the mod's revisions are detailed. The creature has all the immunities of the unmodded creature, plus listed below are Vaxall specific changes made by SCS:
*20 Hit Dice
*Smarter Beholder AI
*25% Magic resistance
*Immune to its own eye beams (in case they are reflected)
*Permanent Alacrity (Aura Cleansing), allowing multiple Beholder Eye Rays to attack a target each round
*Spell casting (at level 20) with 17 memorized arcane spells, from level 1 through 9 - some examples: Stoneskin, Remove Magic, Confusion, Power Word, Silence, True Sight, Protection From The Elements, Ruby Ray of Reversal, Maze, Power Word, Blind, Absolute Immunity and Bigby's Crushing Hand
*Minor Sequencer loaded with double Web spell
*Spell Sequencer loaded with Web, double Spider Spawn
*Spell Trigger loaded with Protection From Magical Weapons, Spell Deflection and Spell Shield
*Has the beholder Telekinesis Eye Ray, to steal the Shield of Balduran for example. It will also apply a Wing buffet effect and deal crushing damage.
*Depending on game difficulty settings, Vaxall has access to all beholder eye beams, and possibly the feared Disintegrate ray.
With SCS Vaxall may open hostilities with a Shadow Door and Stoneskin - then fire off a contingency with a triple conjuring including a Summon Efreeti, Summon Djinni and Summon Hakeashar, directed at the closest opponent in detection range. This will not break its invisibility.
With the Spell Revisions mod, Vaxall's arcane magic will be the SR versions.
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