They said the eyes were the windows to the soul, the path to the heart.
In practice, that wasn't far from the truth. Of all the ways Sylas could exert his Will upon the world, his gaze remained one of the most direct. When he looked at something with intent, there was far less distance between thought and influence, between the Will within him and the reality outside.
The problem was that his eyes were also one of the weakest links in that chain. They were fragile, far more fragile than the sort of pressure Sylas increasingly wanted to push through them. There was a reason his Charisma only reached its true expression when he entered his Demonic Form.
In that state, his entire body became countless times more durable, and his eyes strengthened alongside everything else.
