Ice Dragons are fierce predators who hunt using their extremely cold breath. The breath of an ice dragon can freeze its prey solid in seconds. The body of an ice dragon is so cold that icicles will form along its skin no matter the outside temperature.

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.

The myth of Shiva the Goddess of Ice was created by an online homeschooled student named Matthew.  Shiva is the sister of the fire god, Hephaestus, and no one is sure how she was born. One version is her brother Hephaestus, the jealous God of Fire, set her on the top of the Himalayan Mountains, and left her to die. At that time, the tops of the mountains only got cold at night, and creatures roamed all over.

Shiva was raised by and lived among the wolves, growing to be a tall beautiful woman. Hephaestus, her fire-controlling brother, was crossing the same mountains he had placed the baby Shiva on. When he saw her among the pack of wolves, alive and well, he grew angry and created a huge forest fire that burned down Shiva's home. She fled, along with her wolf friends, to the barren mountaintop where her brother's fire could not reach her. There, though a strange dream, she was told who she was. She woke the next morning to find the first snowflakes falling on the world.