Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling’s wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.

Akyuu is a calm, friendly dragon. Though for official recording purposes Akyuu is supposedly male, the truth is that this Shimmerscale is a female who has been purposely hiding her gender in order to seem more important, since many of the dragon breeds she encounters are rather patriarchal. To maintain the charade, her clan's Magi dragons made a spell for her that allows her to breed with other females- she prefers females anyways, so she's happy to use it. She is in charge of recording all of the dragon breeds in existence, though she will let their rumors flavor her writing. As a result, some species' danger levels or abilities are exaggerated. When not going around to meet other dragons in order to add their entries to the Dragon Cave Chronicle, she spends her time with her best friend Kosuzu, a bronze Shimmerscale.