Moonstone Dragons are named after the orb on their tails, which resembles the gem of the same name. They are nocturnal and gather energy through the absorption of moonlight with their orbs. They seem to glow with a lunar light and are a very gentle breed, feeding off of plants and the moons’ power.

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.

Erwin Scrodinger is a professor at Seven Questions University, working in the mundane department. Although he is best known for his campaign to get umlauts over the 'o' in his name, his work focuses on the well-established relationships between cats and boxes, and he sometimes dabbles in the unanswerable questions of why cats like boxes and how they fit into some of the smaller ones. Normally, however, he works with the mathematical proof that a cat in a box unobserved is both dead and alive. He has found that if the cat is observed while in the box, the cat will become either dead or alive. However, he has developed a magical technique whereby the cat can be removed from the box while in quantum superposition and therefore become stable—that is, the cat will continue to be both dead and alive even if observed. Scrodinger's cats often get out of his lab and can be found all over campus.