Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

Misty Sea Spray is a coastal waverunner dragon. She is generally calm, but being a coastal waverunner, she can sometimes get unbearably noisy and hyper. Misty Sea Spray lives with Pelican's Wharf and Seagull's Rook in a cave by the sea. Many dragons of her clan think that Pelican's Wharf and she are mates, but they are more like brother and sister, cooperating on their daily tasks. Since she is the calm one of the three, she often helps keep things under control, and offers compromises whenever Pelican's Wharf and Seagull's Rook have a disagreement. When she has free time, she spends it quietly flying over the ocean, catching whatever fish she can find on the surface.