Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Water Whirls is a friendly Waterwalker, who is one of the most common victims to The GreyHearts of the Skies, who deeply fears that he would not accept him as a friend. However, Water Whirls is open is any new friends. Since childhood, he has almost been as popular as Selena, who has one more friend, The Angel of Snow and Mountains , than Water Whirls. Childlike in behavior, he thinks it is unlikely he would mate, unless it's with Donna, of course, who is a Waterwalker, too. He can bond with almost everyone he sees, but has a fear of vampires, and hopes that Pendmxc's cave will never have any vampires. So far, she doesn't, lucky guy.