Blue-Banded Dragons are found primarily in mountainous regions with lots of precipitation. Although terrestrial, they are most often sighted near running water and feed mostly on fish. Females are very social and form tight-knit family groups, while males are strictly solitary and will fight any other dragons that enter their territory outside of breeding season. For this reason, females tend to drive males away when they are not ready to mate, or when they are caring for hatchlings. The amount of striping varies greatly from individual to individual, with some dragons having only faint dark streaks on their sides and others appearing to be almost entirely dark blue with paler markings.

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.

Stenography doesn't just write like the other dragons—he has a very unusual method of shortening his words and phrases so he writes as little as possible. Others would say he's lazy, but a lazy dragon wouldn't invent and spend months perfecting an entire system of little squiggles to allow him to write faster. Using his dominant hand, he can easily keep up with another speaker or thinker's speech while scratching away on his lined wood slices. While that is an amazing and extremely useful skill for a transcriber to have, what makes others scoff is that he could easily enchant a writing tool to write quickly, without learning a silly bunch of symbols. Why do any work when magic can achieve the same ends. They think Stenography is stupid.