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.

"Yanma," she says, "Y-A-N-M-A. My name is Yanma!" Yet, everyone she knows insists on calling her Yn4mA. There is something wrong with her name. It all started when she took a holiday to tour the Madder River and drifted through that magical purple cloud. At first she thought it was simply due to the Wonderlandish tendencies of Madder Jungle inhabitants, but since she went home to the coastal marshes just north of Stouseath, even her friends from before the trip mess up her name.

Yn4mA loves dragonflies. There is something about green ones with red stripes on their wings especially that she is drawn to. She stares at them for long periods of time, mesmerised by the way they seem to dance as they hunt smaller insects.