Canopy Dragons love to soar above the tropical jungles and other densely forested areas. Their billowing, layered wings create generous lift that allows them to ascend effortlessly over the warm jungle. While their unique wings do not make them the fastest flyers, they are champion gliders. To further this end, dexterity, maneuverability, and grace are all judged by the females when selecting their mates from the males that can accurately complete the exhausting and elaborate courtship dance between the close growing branches of the upper canopy.

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.

Metagaos makes his home in an area that is as much swamp as jungle, bordering on Szoreny's twisted forest. Like most Canopy dragons, he loves to flit and soar among his trees, testing his layered wings in acrobatic flight. He is chaotic in nature, as his name implies, and it's said he never performs the same trick twice. He's also learned a trick most Canopies never master: he can swim. He flies almost as well through water as he does through the sky, using his wings to power his motion and his tail to steer, and delighting in splashing any visitors to his realm with mucky swamp water.