Fanalea Dragons are rarely seen. They move gracefully between the trees, and eat mainly fruits and seeds, though they do hunt meat during mating season and are excellent at tracking their prey over long distances. These dragons watch over their territories, and have incredible eyesight that allows them to spot threats from afar. Their unique defensive mechanism consists of the arrowlike barbed quills that grow on their tails, and the symbiotic, highly elastic vines they cultivate on their lower back and between their wingtips. By stretching the vine taut and hooking a single quill’s barb over it, then drawing it back, Fanaleas can shoot their quills like arrows over a considerable distance. The vines typically don’t hamper gliding or slow flight, and if the dragon needs to take off quickly, they can snap the vines and cultivate them back later. While usually secretive and somewhat aloof, Fanalea Dragons cannot stand injustice and suffering, and will venture out of their territory to assist others when they are truly needed. Their friendship and loyalty is hard to earn, but unbreakable.

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.

You Are Not New's vines, quills, and skills are useful for many things, such as reading fine print, pinning things to a wall, and hanging the washing. When she was called to the town of Ipseity to help denizens, she initially believed this was not the injustice she had in mind and intended to leave. It didn't take long to learn of greater ills upon Ipseity: denizens without homes, broken sewage channels in the Smears, the same mayor and cabinet getting elected yearly despite their unpopularity, welfare funds that somehow dry up early in the year... You Are Not New spends her indefinite stay going to hood meetings, aiding in corruption inquiries, and heading a couple of committees herself, all in her quest to rid Ipseity of suffering. Much of her time still involves doing things like turning her vines into mundane tools because while she wants to help effect large changes here, she recognizes a lot of the time, individual denizens often just need small things to get through their day.