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.

Ioben is just about the only dragon to live outside the mountains surrounding Highrock Weyr, along with his mate Balnay and exiles Suril and Calsuray.  Like Balnay, he's careful to stay out of Olinbar's way, not wanting to be forced to live in Highrock and leave his pond behind.  Ioben is less comfortable around people than Balnay is, but tolerates them as long as they don't throw rocks at him, or anything like that.