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.

Pelican's Wharf is a coastal waverunner dragon. He is very active and noisy, and he finds it hard to stay still. Rarely seen around the cave that is the home and gathering point for most of his owner's dragons, Pelican's Wharf has his own spacious cave, carved into the side of a cliff by the sea. He shares his home with Seagull's Rook, his fellow waverunner and close friend. Whenever new dragons or mysterious objects are seen in the sky near the sea, Pelican's Wharf and Seagull's Rook are the first to report it to their fellow dragons. In a sense, they are their clan's 'seaside lookouts', and they routinely patrol the water near their home.