Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

Not all Dragonhaven Island residents have some sad story behind their arrival. Yuxak's parents used the community for hatchling-sitters while they fished, so she made enough friends over the years that she decided to stay. Almost everyone likes Yuxak, except for the resident crab warriors (leftovers from some magi's experiment many years ago). She (unsuccessfully) hunted them so often as a hatchling that they finally took to bringing her offerings of shiny rocks and pretty shells so that she would leave them alone. Yuxak can no longer bring herself to hunt such heroic creatures, but she does use their offerings to decorate the sand castles she builds for the hatchlings.