Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Poise Venia is quiet, always observing the hatchlings for reasons unknown. He neither attacks nor plays with them, simply watching from the larger lily-pads in the lake. The only time he ever truly acts aggressive is when Laughing Niveus dares to fly over his lake. He snarls and leaps from lily-pad to lily-pad, biting at her wings. He's the oldest of his owner's dragons.