| Notes |
Choosing to place a gazing guardian within your home is not something that can be done without great forethought on the part of a tenant. Only by constructing a building with the demands of such a creature in mind or by making significant alterations to an existing structure, can one be effectively employed. The body of a gazing guardian is a slimy, pulpy mass of tissue. Extending from this fleshy sack is a mass of slender, prehensile stalks, each ending in a bulbous, lidless eye. These eyes never close, and a gazing guardian is said never to sleep. By extending its stalks out along a series of narrow tunnels burrowed through the walls of a building, the guardian is able to watch every room at once. All that is usually visible is a discreet opening in a ceiling or wall, through which peers an unblinking eye. A gazing guardian may be trained to recognise people who are allowed inside a particular building. When it detects the presence of an intruder, it can use one of its eyestalks to pull on an alarm cord, alerting the owner and any guards who are present. Note that a gazing guardian is unable to go and fetch help – it is barely able to move at all. Gazing guardians are extremely difficult to breed and must be fed on exotic fruit, which can only be grown in hot climates. Often this food must be specially imported, making it very expensive to keep a guardian.
Source: Signs & Portents 60 |
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