Stratos Dragons resemble sea dragons, but these massive creatures are far too buoyant to swim in the water. Instead, Stratos Dragons use air mana accumulated in their scales to live high up in the skies from the moment they mature enough to leave the ground, only ever returning to the ground in open spaces or very high elevations to lay their eggs. The underside of a Stratos is covered in reflective scales that slowly shift colors throughout the day to mirror the sky and the clouds above, serving as camouflage. Young Stratos consume anything that will fit in their mouths, and are especially drawn to air mana, but adult Stratos are difficult to observe and not much is known about what they eat or where they continue to gain mana. Corpses of grown Stratos dragons have been found with an incredible amount of crystallized light and air mana embedded in their backs, and it is thought that they fly so high up as they would otherwise be a delicacy to many of the more mana-hungry dragon breeds.

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.

Most stratoses have little to do with water, but Shrimp Tail A loves to swim. The thick, high-pressure atmosphere keeps her away from most bodies of water, but the nearby rising falls bring water high enough that she can get into the lake that forms an amorphous blob of water in the sky. She plows through the surface tension and dives in, though natural buoyancy makes it hard to stay in the water for long, so she squirts out the other side of the lake, dislodging blobs of water that float aimlessly. She likes playing with these water-blobs, too, either sweeping them back into the lake or tossing them around until the antigravity mana disperses and they rain back to the ground. She hopes nothing happens that could force her pod to migrate, as she doesn't know what she would do without a stratospheric body of water to play in.