Deep Sea Dragons, as their name suggests, spend most of their time in the darkest depths of the sea. They have a bioluminescent dorsal spine that serves to attract prey and communicate with their own kind. As with many deep sea animals, they generally eat whatever they can manage to bait. They rarely leave the ocean floor, surfacing only during breeding season. When they do choose to travel to the shallower depths, they avoid bright lights and will only come up far away from shore.

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.

Palnar et Oshida, a Deep sea dragon, has never laid eyes on land. The only home she has ever known is the dark and boundless abyss of the ocean. Even the sky, seen briefly as a hatchling, is but a murky memory in her mind, for she has never surfaced since.

Some say her heart is as black as the waters she lives in; those who don't say it, think it. Other sea creatures, and even other dragons, avoid her like the plague -- for she is rumored to be cursed, an omen of misfortune, and all who behold her are destined to die alone, their bones wasting away beneath the crushing weight of the deep.

Of course, rumors are rumors; and it is doubtful the truth will ever be known, when none are daring enough to approach and ask Palnar herself.