Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

Zeccara, like her mate Keswir, doesn't restrict herself to building mere piles of sand.  She constructs elaborate sand castles that she then decorates, often searching for hours for just the right piece of flotsam.  What takes Zeccara hours to build can be kicked apart by Nawto and Gisava in a matter of seconds, and so she's taken to draping her sand castles with anything spiky or prickly she can find, in hopes of at least slowing down the destructive flamingo dragons.  Zeccara has tried to enlist the help of Dragonhaven Island's guardian dragons, but Kalazor feels that protecting sand castles is beneath him, while Harumah is willing, but too small to do much good.