Ridgewing Dragons live just below the snow level on the upper slopes of mountains. They are a friendly, playful breed and enjoy dancing in wind currents near their homes or plummeting down into valleys from great heights. Their wings, by far their most striking feature, grow in fin-like ridges along their backs. While their bodies lack markings to blend better with their surroundings, a ridgewing’s wings have bright markings in the colors of the flowers that grow in their mountain habitat. Occasionally different-colored individuals can be found, but they are rare because their striking coloring offers little protection.

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.

While pale-colored Ridgewings are unusual, they are still a far cry from being unheard of... except in one small and reclusive clan of Ridgewings. A tan member of their breed had not been seen in centuries, and as the last one had brought great ruin upon the clan, the birth of another was not well-appreciated. Accordingly, this young female was bullied, harassed, and scorned from the day of her birth, constantly decried as a worthless beast that would bring nothing but disaster to those around her. Hearing these words for so long that she slowly began to believe them, she now lives her adult life alone, a wandering vagrant of the mountains who supposes things would be better if she simply died, and who dreams constantly of a life in which she was the same color as her kin.