Striped Dragons come in a dazzling array of colors complemented by an intricate pattern of stripes. These bright colors and patterns help attract their favorite food, insects. Because their prey is so tiny, striped dragons must spend a large portion of their day eating. The color of the offspring is usually determined by the dragon’s mate.

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.

An avid gardener, after all, no one but no one uncovered more bugs to eat than good gardeners do, Bzip spends all day in the sun and often falls asleep among the rose bushes around sundown.  Like his father and brothers, Bzip is fascinated by unknown objects, which he digs up often while weeding, but regretfully has no time to puzzle out their secrets himself and usually gives them all to his father Lzip.  The secrets of how vines creep, which bugs are good and which invasive, and why the rosebushes sometimes tremble when he walks by take up far too much of his time to waste it on some rusty old axe or bit of carved wood found under the sycamore tree.

He has no idea that he is being spied on.