Garland Dragons are a welcome sight in the skies during the holiday season. Their slightly luminous scales shine softly at night or catch the day’s sunbeams as they turn loops and spirals in the sky. They will often drape themselves around tall pine trees or along rooflines, adding a festive note to the winter scenery. Occasionally they drop red mana berries from their garland-like mane, which offer a comforting warmth to those that find them.

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.

Garland-Crowned has flowers, rather than berries, in her leafy crest. She raises mute swans in a crystal-clear lake high in the mountains. Her swans all have distinctive collars with a special lock that, when the two corresponding pieces are pressed together, will open both locks. Each pair of locks is on a breeding pair of swans. When winter freezes Garland-Crowned's lake and the swans migrate away, they often get caught. It is said that if someone catches one swan, his or her true love will catch the swan with the matching lock-collar. Then, by unlocking the collars of the swan pair, the swan-catcher couple will be assured true love.