List of Animals of The Edge Chronicles - C

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• Caterbird - Possibly the most amazing creatures in the whole of the Edge. Caterbirds are the physical manifestation of the very seeds of life known as glisters. Caterbirds are born when a glister weaves a specially made cocoon in a grove of lullabee trees. Only one caterbird hatches every hundred years, so they are very rare. They resemble Earth hornbills in that they have a long crest-like horn sticking out of the back of their heads. The birds are uniformly black and white. They know everything that every other caterbird (past and present) knows, making them almost omniscient.
• Chookbat - Possibly similar to a type of bat, inhabits the Deepwoods.
• Cloddertrog - Cloddertrogs are large, bulky creatures, with big lumpy noses dominating their faces. Most individuals have large foreheads, small bloodshot eyes and prominent yellow teeth. Cloddertrogs are known for their violent disposition to "outsiders", but are quite loyal to friends and family. Cloddertrogs are happy with simple, heavy-lifting jobs such as loading and unloading at port docks, and are well built for such tasks. Most cloddertrogs are also quite superstitious, tending to believe in spirits and ghosts. They made up a large part of the gatekeepers of Sanctaphrax.
• Cloudeater - A giant beast, drawn in from Open Sky in "The Winter Knights". In this book, it appears as a huge, hauling, white beast with a head bigger than Sanctaphrax rock and a body that could wrap around Undertown three times. If it freezes and becomes trapped to the Edge, which it has done twice, it will suck in warm air and clouds, and then expel them as freezing air and blizzards that can cause eternal winters on the Edge, through openings down its length, trying to force itself away from the rock, only to freeze itself more and more, frozen trapped in the air. Its tail ends up breaking off into several small tails at its tip, and it has six indigo eyes on each side of its huge mouth. By freezing itself in its attempt to escape, it develops a white, oozing, frozen covering, very similar in appearance to a cloud. When the cloudeater is freed by stormphrax entering its body, the shell that formed of ice and pus breaks away, revealing the true form of the cloudeater. It is a beautiful, diaphanous, translucent creature with many wispy tendrils that moves languidly through the sky. It is mentioned that one of its eyes is bigger than the great oval window in the Knights Academy.
• Cray-spinners - Small translucent creatures with diaphanous wings and eyes on the end of swaying stalks. They are frequent prey items of weezits.
• Crystal spider - Creatures living in the Gardens of Light beneath the Deepwoods.