Monarch Dragons feed on large waterfowl, supplementing with a diet of eggs and fish as needed. Driven by the arrival of cold weather and the need to follow their prey, Monarchs are themselves migratory, leaving the forests in early fall and heading to the warmer climates of deserts and jungles. These migrations are a sight to see, as along the way smaller groups join with one another to form a single large group that can blot out the sunlight as they fly over. Until they reach their destination, they only land for short periods of time to rest. Monarchs spread out across the land at the end of their journey, breaking up once more into their small family groups until the time comes to return to the forest.

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.

Ling lost her family during a migr ation. The crash left her a poor flier, and she never met another monarch dragon since. Humans raised her like a human, teach ing her lang uage and pre paring her for a job. Ling now helps run a wood work stall. Due to the col lision or simply because she learned human ways rather late, she has some bad writing habits that many find irksome, most notably her anti pathy toward long words. If any word on any doc ument has more than about seven char acters, Ling adds a space in it because its length "just looks wrong". She can't even bear to write her full name correctly: "Has No Ling Uistic". Her human family already spent a long time teach ing her that written text makes no sense when it's alle qual lysp aced or if it's writtenwithnospacesatall, so what she cur rently does is cons idered a great impro vement. One fix that could be done is to just have Ling always write in short words, which may look odd at times but would avoid the issue fully.