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.

GootShadowWalker is a rather silly Shadow Walker Dragon. He likes to eat waterfowl, and he has learned to make sounds just like a duck or goose in order to call them in. That is where his name comes from, it is just like what his goose-call sounds like. GootShadowWalker practices his calls all the time, but birds usually won't fly near his cave with all those dragons in one place. The sounds only work on or near the water, where the water birds are to begin with. So everyone gets a kick out of hearing him make such funny sounding bird calls.