Canopy Dragons love to soar above the tropical jungles and other densely forested areas. Their billowing, layered wings create generous lift that allows them to ascend effortlessly over the warm jungle. While their unique wings do not make them the fastest flyers, they are champion gliders. To further this end, dexterity, maneuverability, and grace are all judged by the females when selecting their mates from the males that can accurately complete the exhausting and elaborate courtship dance between the close growing branches of the upper canopy.

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.

Tree Girl doesn't live in a forest, but the clearing where she and her friends make their home is beside one. Whenever there was danger, she retreated to the safety of a tree's branches. The rest of her group, unable to fly, were forced to run or hide, and they usually didn't survive whatever went after them. She was ashamed of her cowardice and vowed to never use her wings again. During times when flying up to a tree's branches would've been helpful, like picking its fruits, she would refuse. A journey and an epiphany later, Tree Girl taught her remaining brethren to climb instead, deciding that it is not shameful to hide in a tree; she survived so she could help others survive.