Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

A falling out between this dragon's parents and their own led to a weakening of the ancestral line, but she's never much let that trouble her. At once both highly independent and highly loyal, politics and feuds are of no consequence to her, the dragon abiding by only two very simple rules as she lives her life: that she must protect those she loves, and that she must punish those who would dare do them harm. It's this philosophy that often sees her appearing as if by miracle whenever trouble threatens her kin, storming down from the mountains in a gale of fang and fire to wreak havoc upon her family's foes.