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.

Petria Blau, Petri as she is called, is an odd dragon. Most dragons in the cave avoid her, calling her names such as "crazy" and "loony". The reason why she is treated as such is because she thinks she is a vampire dragon. The only dragons that get along with Petri are the vampires, and even then its more casual friendships then relationships with more depth. What Petri doesn't know is that the other dragons beseeched the vampires to take control of Petri. Before the vampires stepped in to stop her she was always trying to bite the eggs in an attempt to sire a vampire hatchling for herself. The other dragons hope and pray that one day Petri will realize that she is in fact a Waverunner dragon and not a vampire.