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.

Herr Kommandant is always scrambling to try to take over a group called the Dragoncons. She refers to herself as Lord Herr Kommandant, trying to force everyone to call her by that name too. She has tried several times, always unsuccessful, to overthrow the leader of the Dragoncons, Lord Megatronus. For some reason, despite her many attempts at treason, Lord Megatronus keeps her around as his second in command. She gets particularly frustrated with a dragon named Buff This, who refuses to call her Lord. Herr Kommandant will always say in reply to him, "It is Lord to you," in an agitated voice. Buff This will just laugh her off and go back to buffing his scales.