Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Apathy probably had a name, once. If Milcah and Daniel gave him a nick-name in his childhood then he soon shrugged it off. He couldn't care less about affection, happiness, those sorts of things. It isn't that he is depressed, either. Nothing ever seems to take his fancy. Onlookers might call him heartless, but the case is more likely that he just could never be bothered to use it.

He keeps to himself, producing only the occasional sigh. He never eats much, just occasional nibbles throughout the day. Sometimes he looks at the water and wonders if it would be interesting to drown himself. But then he just sighs and moves on; it's probably not worth the effort.