Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

Osoroshi Tamashi is a particularly frightening Shadow Walker. He appears just before a great disaster happens and trouble always appears in his wake. It is unknown if he is the cause of such things or if it is just coincidence. Perhaps he is the one that makes these things happen as he sees himself as the dragon of death. A morbid outlook on his life, but it is how he wishes to live and see himself. No dragon, nor human, can tell him otherwise.

His name means Frightening Soul.