Talk:Basilisk/@comment-1687225-20120719100010/@comment-71.23.225.154-20141127083916

Not so. It's their eyes that kill you. (They don't emit the death-breath unless they see you first... try falling down either of the 2 "waterfall holes" in the depths for "easy mode" to sneak up behind multiple Basilisks, and they won't react at all.  Even if you walk up directly behind them, and continuously walk into them over and over and over.)

They also drop Eyes of Death.

And the icon for the ring has and Eye on it, and upon killing your opponents you gain health (as if through demonic necromancy and vampirism) upon their Death.

You also gain a small Eye icon under your stamina meter to indicate the Eye of Death eye eye death death death ability is in effect.

(Subliminal message:  eye eye death death eye death death death death death eye eye death).

As you can see, they are all extraordinarily and infinitely related.