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.

Bejelf grew up among the gemshard knots

Where her father Pikshh fit in with ease

And hunted ants while he sought apricots,

A happy wyrmling, easy to appease.

A firegem approached the drove one day

and every gemshard hid from him in fear

But he explored as if he meant to stay.

Unwary, Bejelf asked what brought him here.

"I have a message," Murcurial began,

"For Pikshh, from Ovjun--"

-- Bejelf shot away

To fetch her father from their hiding clan.

He came, afraid of what she had to say.

Ovjun was Bejelf's mother and she wrote

Apologies for having flown away

While Bejelf never got to read the note,

It marked a change. Ovjun came to play,

But never with the shards. She would not stay.

Years later, Bejelf met a nebula

Whose name at first she struggled to pronounce

Grounded by a broken scapula.

What happened next, there are no clear accounts,

But soon she'd helped him climb high up a tree

To watch the stars above the canopy.