Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

Born from a mistake and hatched on the first of April, 'The Fool of April' became a dragon despised by almost all his kin and even by his very own father. Sad as it seems, the fool of April never got to receive a proper name despite his mother's protests. Every shimmer-scale dragon of his clan looked down on him with mirth and disgust. He grew up desolate and kept to himself in a cove that his mother made for him by chipping away at the coastal rocks with her weak claws. One fateful day, a certain adventurous shimmer-scale by the name of Kheifer slithered to his cove and tried every possible way to get him out of there and re-introduce him to the clan that abandoned him. Long story made short, his father still did not acknowledge him as a true shimmer-scale of Pinoy's lineage and he was still denied a place in the clan. But everyone knows that true love cannot be stopped. Kheifer became his life-time mate and they established their own clan in the cove called 'Lover's Last Gift'.