Catoblepae in The Forgotten Realms
In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, catoblepae are sometimes kept by powerful, evil mages, kings from Zakhara, and other such people.
In a Forgotten Realms product from the 1990s "Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue," Marco Volo described "death cheese" made from the milk of catoblepas dwelling in the Vast Swamp at Cormyr's border. In the 3.5th edition Dungeons & Dragons game the catoblepas is described in Monster Manual II as:
a bizarre, loathesome creature that inhabits dismal swamps and marshes...(it) is a meandering grazer...but once a month, usually under the light of a full moon, it hunts for meat to round out its diet of reeds and grasses.
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