Black Capped Teimarr are a small and sociable breed of dragon with an appetite for seafood. They can commonly be seen flitting around sand dunes and tidal marshes, searching for crabs and other aquatic invertebrates, or cavorting in tidal pools in hopes of finding landlocked fish. Because of their large wing-to-body size, they are excellent long distance fliers and are known to migrate hundreds of miles along coastlines, or even across open sea to outlying islands in search of seasonal delicacies such as bird eggs, fledglings and schooling bait fish. The males are easily distinguished by their large jousting horns and their extendable neck frill, which they show off to the females through enthusiastic head bobbing.

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.

Ownlife is the Prime Presider of South Papatory, a territory of motley beach communities that are largely self-governing, i.e. largely chaos. There are a lot of loud dragons in his domain who complain about neighbors with overly-pointed horns, compare caves to see whose is uglier, and other rational activities engaged in by well-adjusted individuals. Ownlife is happy that he doesn't have the responsibility of his parents while still keeping a nifty title. Only six times have his mothers or the GoN had to intervene and settle things down, and only one of those was an attempted coup, so he considers his long rule of 68 weeks very successful. Meanwhile, he spends most of his free time writing and playing music for his very loud band. People say that Ownlife's band is the loudest they've ever heard, which is probably a compliment, and that he's a better leader than a musician, which also sounds like a compliment because he's a good leader.