Towards the Hoard of a Hundred Horrors: Cockatrices

The first words were "Let there be light" - and so the eye is a tool of worship, a jelly-filled rosary bead. The first to see by light was also first among the angels. When he fell he fell the hardest, and profaned the eye the furthest.

 

The eye of the Accuser sees evil in everything - and wherever there is evil, the Accuser is there watching. It's a bit of a chicken and egg thing, which is funny because that's where these guys come from - from the devil fucking a chicken. Or any oviparous animal really. When some great evil calls him, he has his way with such beasts in the vicinity, and leaves his spawn to scourge the earth further. Such abominations are a fixture of the Black Masses of the witches.

They have their father's eye, swollen baleful and cyclopean on their face, and the spade-tip of his tail upon their snood. Between specimens little else can be found in common, the features of their mother overwhelmed by chimerical unwholesomeness. They are poisonous princes one and all whose domains become wasteland under their withering glare.

They are

Cockatrices

HD: 4 AC: 14 ATK: 1d6 peck + Petrification, Witness True Horror SAV: 9 MOV: Run as terror bird, fly as chicken INT: Evil yet animalistic ML: 7
No. Appearing: 1d6

Petrification: Those touched by a cockatrice must save or be turned to stone. Wearing heavy clothing or armour with full coverage grants advantage on this save.

The tears of a cockatrice undo this petrification - the creatures weep with joy when they are about to feed. After a cockatrice has been killed, a successful roll with a relevant skill (e.g. butchery, anatomy, hunting, medicine, etc.) can extract 1d3 doses of tears from its eye.

Witness True Horror: Those who meet the gaze of a cockatrice will receive a revelation of the true depth of sin - they must save or be overcome with fear for 1d6 rounds. Reflective surfaces can reflect this gaze back on the cockatrice. They have a habit of befouling still water within their domains. Only the hardiest and most toxic of weeds can withstand a cockatrice looking upon them - all other plants shrivel and die. Roll 1d4 for the affected's fear response:
1. Fight - Mindlessly attack
2. Flight - Flee in terror
3. Freeze - Become paralyzed
4. Fawn - Become charmed by the cockatrice