Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

No one knows where A'ssahra came from. She's been in the cave ever since anyone can remember, always slinking from the shadows like a guilt-ridden criminal and rarely speaking. Many of her owner's dragons would swear A'ssahra is a ghost, especially because of her tendency to always been in the right place at the right time. But she is no ghost, no matter what the others say. A'ssahra hates the way they look at her, like she's just another undead demon, just like Zorgon. Only the little hatchlings have seen her true self, and she will spend hours playing with them when no one is looking.