Glaucus Drakes have curious personalities. They spend more of their time sunbathing and idly floating in the water than exploring. Because they move very little as they float, Glaucus Drakes can ambush prey relatively easily. They can dive to surprisingly deep depths, and eat a variety of fish and marine plants. Most of them live in tight-knit family groups.

Though it may appear at first that dragons and drakes have much in common, the two are completely separate species. Drakes are smaller and less intelligent than their cousin species, though both dragons and drakes sit comfortably near the top of the food chain. They are always found bearing antlers and leathery wings. Drakes share many of the same habitats that dragons do, and typically hunt in packs.

Heiba lives with her sister, Tolep, in the coast near where a sprawling dragon clan resides. For a long while, the sisters feared for their lives whenever they ventured into the fertile waters for food, in case they met a dragon who was not repulsed at 'eating their cousins.' Drakes can be seen as prey to many dragons, due to their intellect and size.

This changed when several dragons appealed to the Pillow Monarch's council, the group of dragons who run the clan and passed a rule to not eat drakes. This was as much as a political move to please 'drake emphasizers', as it was to prevent the destruction of nesting sites by vengeful packs who remember where their murderers live.

This allowed sea-drakes like Heiba to live near the coastal area of the clan without worry of getting eaten. They use the dragons as protection, to scare off dangerous predators and humans. One of these dragons goes by the name, Esmeraldae.