Beldileck

Abhômaipeth Mothership - made from Beldileck

Beldileck was a primordial aberration that fought in the Dawn War. His body was a contorted orb atop eleven crab-like legs. It was dotted with many eyes and mouths and looked like a cross between a gibbering mouther and a beholder. All of his attacks and defenses were powered by the arcane, drawing power from the Web of Magic.

After being promoted to primordial lord, he was assigned control over a moon that was then simply called Orb 398. With limited Powers of Creation, he created the beholder race as a security force that would be mobile, highly alert, and unhindered by the rugged conditions of the mini-world assigned to him. Beldileck was assigned to this moon because he had been tainted with Law from an encounter with the then archangel Athena. As such, he was not completely trusted on the battlefield because his plans often forced too much Order on armies dominated by those of chaotic tendencies. When he created the beholders, they ended up having even more Law in them than their creator. After a thousand years of servitude to Beldileck, they began to rebel. A century of fighting between those loyal to him and the rebels ended when Beldileck's great mass was petrified by scores of beholders working in unison.

In the Second Epoch, Abhômaipeth military scientists began un-petrifying parts of Beldileck. They dried these parts and then used them to make the hulls of their largest void ships - the Abhômaipeth Motherships.