Striped Dragons come in a dazzling array of colors complemented by an intricate pattern of stripes. These bright colors and patterns help attract their favorite food, insects. Because their prey is so tiny, striped dragons must spend a large portion of their day eating. The color of the offspring is usually determined by the dragon’s mate.

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.

Topaz Azure, or Topaz for short, is a young Blue Striped dragon. Like Amber Tinsel, he spends a lot of his time in the nearby village, Drakeville, where he works at the local gem shop. At the gem shop, he carefully checks each and every jewel by hand for even the smallest imperfection. He is a huge perfectionist, and hates for anything to be out of place or have any flaws. Because of this, he is slightly insane, as nothing around him is as perfect as he wants it to be. When he's not at the gem shop, he's usually in his cave, arranging jewels into perfect patterns ritualistically and ranting about how imperfect the world is and how he's "going to have to fix it again". This creeps the other dragons out a little, but he hates most of them anyway for not being perfect. He has no mate at the moment, for none of the females are as perfect as he wants them to be.