Named after their cloudy, ashen scales, Ash Dragons are large, gentle beasts, although their faces can give unaccustomed folk a fright. Their tough scales and sheer size make them infrequent attack targets, traits that explain why pygmy dragons and other small dragon breeds can often be seen riding on their backs, hiding amongst their large spiked scales. Though they tend to be mostly quiet, Ash dragons have a low, deep roar that is typically only used to threaten or call to others of their kind.

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.

Mashter is an architect, designing fancy buildings with all manner of statuary and carvings worked into their facades. Unfortunately for him, he is most renowned for having designed the building that houses Yellow Fin. He worked every fish HaSoX's restaurant serves into the stonework and enchanted the whole thing so that the carvings of whatever fish are available at any given time glow yellow. Piscivores and marine biologists drool over his exquisite representation of one freshwater fish in particular, which he has done a masterful job of rendering. Mashter doesn't like fish that much, so he gets fed up when all anyone seems to know about his work is his bass relief.