Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

Angel from my Nightmare was never blessed with a birth-given name. At the time she hatched, she grew into a beautiful shadow walker on her own, roaming the cave amongst the evening shadows and sleeping during the bright days. From the time she was a hatchling, she had fallen in love with another dragon in the cave named Hexcaster. She would visit him during the day, but never allow a meeting. By instinct, she'd keep to the shadows, and Hexcaster, seeing the beautiful dragon, would believe her to only be an apparition in a dream. The ghostly dragon haunts the lonely Hexcaster, and so he has given her the appropriate nickname of the Angel from my Nightmare. Perhaps one day Angel and Hexcaster will realize their love for each other and be together as mates.