Shallow Water Dragons are found in tropical regions where the water is warm. They use their magic to hunt, using bubbles to capture small fish and animals. Their large, webbed feet make them excellent swimmers and they are able to move at very high speeds. Due to their bright color, these dragons are easily spotted in the lagoons where they live.

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.

Ghoti loves language and every aspect of it, especially grammar and pronunciation. She will spend hours curled up with a good book, a quill and inkwell not far away; grammatical errors make her go cross-eyed. (Or so she says. She does have a tendency to exaggerate.) Ghoti finds the "Laws of Language" to be quite enthralling, and will tell them to anyone who is unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Most dragons call her Ghoti the Dull, but she doesn't seem to take offense to it, instead correcting others on the pronunciation of her name, that it's "Fish," although no one really knows how she got the word Fish out of the name Ghoti.