Lumina Dragons received their names from their highly reflective scales, which—at times—seem to glow. They are vain, always strutting about and preening incessantly; if one of their scales has so much as a scratch or a defect, they’ll remove it. Luckily, their scales grow back quickly, and each new growth is more beautiful than the last. These narcissistic dragons live in small groups and prefer to surround themselves with beauty. The females guard their territory and eggs while the males search for vegetation to eat.

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.

Noi is the exception to the rule: a Lumina caring more about individuality and inner beauty than so called perfection. He secretly admired Pekeia and her little imperfections for a long time and was gathering his courage to ask her to be his mate, when one day she disappeared for about a week, only to come back a changed dragon. Noi was extremely disappointed in her new looks and even more so in her decision to be perfect rather than interesting, and he was ready to give up on her. But now he sees how she strives to become her old self, how she learned something, he knew all along: that she was beautiful because of her imperfections. Noi has decided to stand with her no matter if she is successful or not.