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.

She was supposed to be happy. She loved to try new things, so when someone offered to take her on a dangerous journey, she wholeheartedly agreed. Which, of course, turned out to be a bad decision. A very bad one. She was abandoned at the most dangerous point, a raging cliff face which fell steeply to a raging sea. Since Kat had not yet mastered the power of flight, she was hopeless. She resigned to curl up in a small ball, and live the last few minutes of her life. And that's what she did--but only she wasn't allowed to die. Instead, her body gave way, allowing her soul to run free in the form of a Shadow Walker, able to move through planes of reality.But this wasn't really what she wanted either. She was never cared for much in her old clan, she was shunned by those who saw her. She didn't really want anything but to feel accepted, and to be loved. That would come, however, in a way she didn't expect--it came in a Radiant Angel dragon called Quinn.