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.

PART OF THE ALL-CAPS likes screaming, sailing, and obnoxious puzzles involving polychromatic orbs. His weyr is locked with a coloured-orb puzzle, his ship's berth is locked with a coloured-orb puzzle, and rumour has it that even his heart is locked with a chromatic-orb puzzle, so the first dragoness who figures out what colours of orb to gift him in which order he will take as a mate. That last one is unconfirmed as yet, but he takes a lot of pride in the chromatic-orb locks because they are enchanted to reset automatically after the door is closed. He has to puzzle his way in and out of his weyr, but at least it's more practical than a lock. Locks can be opened with any key, but then the key breaks so the lock owner has to keep buying new keys all the time. He has been trying to encourage other locals to adopt puzzle locks to no avail. Some puzzle-haters have begin threatening him! Their reactions mist-ify him.