The Most Evil Eye

Question: Hi! Let's chat about Balor's Eye! What'd it do? I hear it has some kind of laser power. I'd love to know more about it. Is it a relic? Is it destroyed? Since it's mentioned as his Evil Eye, would it be related to the boon? I hear it's really great if you'd like to make a lake! Thoughts?

Oh, fun questions! Balor's (currently inert) eye has occasionally turned up in our games, but since it's approximately the size of a small house and violently dangerous, the PCs usually just leave it alone. It would certainly be a relic, and while you might rule that it's destroyed thanks to Lugh's stabbings, you could just as easily say that it survived (either as it was or in a diminished capacity) or that it's still attached to its dreadful owner in whichever Titanrealm he inhabits. I doubt it has anything to do with the Evil Eye spell, which is so-named in relation to the ancient concept of witches laying curses on others with the Evil Eye, not anything to do with Balor. Balor's eye, as you noted, shoots lasers, which are significantly different from curses.

Actually, Balor's eye has a writeup of its very own in the Elohim supplement, where it appears as a powerful artifact, currently being held in the Titanrealm Sedeq under the control of Bres the Beautiful. It's available in the supplement along with a lot of other cool stuff, but I'll repost it here to save you some time:

Bres' greatest weapon is the Evil Eye of his grandfather Balor, torn free of his head by the force of Lugh's attack when the fomorian king was slain. Bres rescued it from the battlefield with the aid of the few surviving fomorians, wrapping it in their ruined armor to avoid touching its deadly surface. The Eye is now mounted in the highest tower of Bres' fortress in Sedeq, two fomorians tasked night and day with keeping its monumentally heavy lid (pierced with an iron ring to allow them to touch it safely) propped open so that its baleful gaze burns down on the landscape around it.

With Balor's death and the wounding of the Eye itself, the organ has lost much of its original power but still remains extremely potent. Anyone who comes within three hundred miles of Bres' fortress must succeed in a Dexterity + Stealth roll against a difficulty of 80 to avoid its notice every hour that they are within its range; if they do not, Bres is immediately alerted that there are trespassers in his territory (though he does not gain precise knowledge of where they are). The mere gaze of the Eye can no longer instantly destroy those who fail to avoid it, but it is still a powerful weapon, inflicting 100 dice of lethal damage every five ticks. The only safe haven from the Eye is within the fortress of Bres itself, where the fomorian army remains garrisoned for the moment; the Eye is never closed unless Bres needs to move his troops en masse.

Construction on a very large project is currently underway within the great hall of Bres' castle; those who possess experience in crafts or sciences may discover, upon close examination, that the framework looks disturbingly like a mobile seige tower, precisely the right size for the Eye to be mounted on when it is finished.

So... yeah, duck.