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.

A much younger Longshore had planned to get up at sunrise and fly to his home island to visit his parents and seek a mate, but he felt terribly ill. Instead of sleep the day away, though, he hauled himself inland to seek medicinal plants. That evening, a storm battered the coast, flooding the rocky shore and sweeping away everything not firmly attached to the ground. Longshore is certain that had he remained in his beach hollow or flown out, he would've drowned. He considers himself lucky to be alive and often reflects on the difference one little choice made. In fact, he wonders about the could've-beens, the myriad of events that could have happened had he done something slightly differently, so often that his parents and partners have called it an obsession. While Longshore doesn't take any longer to make decisions than he did before, after the fact, he can spend days musing about the possibilities if one of any number of factors (many of which are beyond his control) had changed.