[Necromancy] Item - Dead Eye

Voidseers obey the balance between life and unlife, their moderate necromantic and divination magic free to share with those willing to sacrifice. "An eye for many eyes," as their saying goes.

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Dead Eye
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement)

As part of the attunement process to this eye, you must place it in your empty eye socket. Once attuned, the eye functions identically to a normal eye and cannot be removed against your will. If you don't already have darkvision, this eye grants you darkvision out to 30 feet.

This eye has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dusk. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to gain one of the following benefits for 1 minute:

• Detect Undeath. You open your senses to the presence of undeath. For the duration, you see a shadowy aura emanate from any undead creature within 60 feet of you that is not behind total cover, as well as any locations desecrated by undead.
• Sight Beyond. You connect to the eyes of death. For the duration, you can see through the eyes of every corpse or undead creature within 500 feet of you simultaneously, regardless of whether they still have intact eyes. If you see through the eyes of a corpse, your field of perception is limited to the natural turn of its eyeball from when it was still alive. You gain the visual senses of your targets, including those from when the corpse was alive.

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DESIGN COMMENTARY

The eye, though not flashy, is meant to be some unique utility. It's inspired by the undead-looking greek Fates who pass a single eye around, who form a neutral faction of the necromancers. From a power perspective, it sits right between uncommon and rare - the ability to see out to 500 feet with no restrictions is quite strong (kinda like an arcane eye spell), but rare with attunement is a big opportunity cost, especially if the eye may get later replaced with stronger items. Just to be safe, I stuck with rare.

Drawing this thing was an interesting challenge too. I'm not experienced with drawing eyes, so this was good practice, but I also ran out of ways to make eyes interesting. I like the black orb (demon eye) aesthetic, but didn't know how to make it cool beyond "black orb." Luckily the red looks kinda cool and I decorated it with my favorite star field.