Copper Dragons are masters of stealth, slipping silently and swiftly through the forests and jungles where they live. Often hunting in groups, their prey rarely know they are being stalked until the dragon’s at their throat. In the air they are agile and skilled. Copper Dragons prize family groups, spending large amounts of time teaching their young skills. So great is their love of life and family that they will sometimes adopt orphaned dragons of other breeds to raise.

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.

Esquivalience is a ghost editor of a wide variety of published material, mostly humans'. She does this in secret and only during a small time window during the day, since her friends and family would just ask prodding questions about it, which she'd rather not deal with. She has an esoteric role in each document's development: her job is to insert bits of fake information into whatever it is, as protection. If that piece of fakery is found elsewhere, then the writers would know their work has been plagiarized. Esquivalience keeps bundles of scrolls in her cave to keep track of her made-up entries. If any human is curious (and stupid) enough to traverse a jungle just to find her, she'll share the information on her scrolls. It's probably not knowledge the human will ever use.