Cloudplume Dragons are as warm and friendly as they look. Living in groups of ten to twenty, these dragons make their home in snowy mountains, where their white feathers fit right in with the environment. During their waking hours, they spread out to fly all over the mountains and nearby plains and forests, collecting mana, exploring, and greeting whoever they happen to meet. When they need to rest, they return to the snowy slopes and curl up together. While a single Cloudplume can blast an air breath at attackers to make their escape, a group of Cloudplumes will stick close, feathers puffed up and the large feathers on their backs raised high and quivering, becoming one giant, bristling mass to intimidate the attacker away from their home. Smaller creatures—and some not so small—often get in between the resting dragons for warmth and protection, and the Cloudplumes welcome such guests. During summertime, these dragons fly higher up to the mountaintops where the air stays cool, mingling with the clouds.

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.

When a strange, feathery blob turned up in Nworset after a big New Year's party, nobody was quite sure what to make of it. Psican and Infacras adopted it even before they determined that it was in fact a baby dragon, still too young to speak. Cloudplumes are still rare around the city, but Megaphrama mymaripenne has never felt out of place in the bustling city. He still lives close to his adoptive fathers, and works for the postal service sorting outgoing mail. He is always goofing around puffing envelopes into their appropriate piles to be sent off, and even has a few tubes he can use to launch non-fragile packages at remarkable speeds. He has been known to 'race' Tktaka by trying to sort an entire stack of mail before she can complete her next foray to deliver mail and bring back outgoing postage, to Azure Wendigo's chagrin. He has high accuracy even when sorting at speed, so dragons can feel confident sharing information via the cloudplume.