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.

Wer Nurdiangarh is a monstrous creature, known best for terrorizing innocent people and making their lives miserable. She hides in the shadows and sleeps during the day, and at night she materializes to creep through silent villages for her favorite sports of terrorizing young humans and dragons and murdering farmers' livestock. When the sun rises, Wer Nurdiangarh slips between panes of reality to hide and sleep until night falls again, and she begins her reign of terror anew. The poor farmers and villagers under Wer Nurdiangarh's reign of terror have tried many times to do something, but they quickly find that Wer Nurdiangarh isn't a dragon to be trifled with, and pay for their mistake of fighting back with their lives.