Talk:Bayonetta 2/@comment-95.122.180.14-20141017213708/@comment-1661895-20141020004935

The Eyes allow whoever posesses one to oversee history, literally witness the events of time in a manner similar to how Loptr and Loki use the Remembrances of Time. This is partially proven when Loptr makes Bayonetta see the vision of the past at the real Gates of Hell. He tells her to "...see the truth. See with the Left Eye of Darkness", basically saying that the vision she saw was only able to be seen because she posesses the Left Eye. Both Witches and Sages used the Eyes to do just this, oversee history and ensure it passed without incident, at least until their destruction.

The flash in both Bayonetta and Balder's eyes when they use certain powers isn't the Eyes' powers allowing them to use those powers, they're just visual ways of communicating that they each have an Eye. The true power when a person has one of the Eyes is to oversee history, just as the clans did. It's also implied in Rosa's dialogue in 2 and journal entries in the original game that they are inherited down through the ages within the clans.