Starwood Strand - Stargaze Cerdae
An excerpt from Palimpsest’s field notes
The cerdae species’ natural sensitivity to magic has resulted in dramatic alterations to the small population living in the Starwood Strand. Herds often graze in the forest’s asteroid-blasted meadows, where their favored diet of star clover grows in abundance, but in doing so absorb shocking doses of Arcane radiation over the course of their long lifetimes. While the cerdae themselves survive the effects of these volatile energies, they grow increasingly dangerous to other organisms as they become progressively more radioactive with age. The thickets in which elder stargaze cerdae live are prone to rampant mutations; for a dragon, even being close enough to see one may impart a fatal dose of radiation.
They are called stargaze cerdae after their habit of watching for asteroids, which gives the appearance that they are gazing at the stars.