Mint colored dragons are the most peaceful of all dragons; they only eat plants unless they scavenge meat from an already dead animal. They also have no ways to attack others or defend themselves. They are much smaller than other forms of dragons since they only double in size when they mature. Mint dragons are unable to use magic and cannot fly since they lack wings. Their looks have given rise to the common insult of calling dragons “large lizards.”

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.

The first dragon to successfully grow to adulthood within the Cloudtouched Thicket, Tenderheart "Mama" Mentha has taken it upon herself to act as a maternal figure to the thicket's dragons. She spends her days tending to the needs of the hatchlings and her nights carefully coiled around a soft nest of her making, containing a colorful assortment of eggs. While she is of a species of dragon that is somewhat small, she has learned that this is to her advantage. Hatchlings feel unintimidated by a dragon closer to their size.

Tenderheart is also the dragon who established the thicket's somewhat unusual naming convention. Due to the extraordinarily varied amount of breeds in the thicket, she found that giving hatchlings a breed identity helped them to feel proud of their heritage. She helps the first hatchling of each breed that grows to adulthood choose a "family name" that represents their breed's finest attributes. The name is then shared with all future dragons of the breed to come.