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.

Vindixeg will prowl the aether

Intent on Celestial prey:

No fool whom she seeks to endanger

Defied her and made it away.

Indeed, her intangible medley

Xipoid talons and glee

Enables her blows to be deadly

Gainst those who are fazed out like she.

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Not everyone believes there is truth to Vindixeg's ode and many suspect the word 'xiphoid' to be made-up solely for the purpose of the acrostic. However, a few dictionaries seem to define the word as meaning 'sword-like' (in the context of biology), and if it were made up surely the poet would have picked something that matched the meter. Vindixeg has no interest at all in corporeal creatures—except perhaps for a certain blusang—and tends to ignore their attempts to communicate with her. There are rather few celestials along her stretch of coastline, but there could be other explanations for the phenomena.