Ridgewing Dragons live just below the snow level on the upper slopes of mountains. They are a friendly, playful breed and enjoy dancing in wind currents near their homes or plummeting down into valleys from great heights. Their wings, by far their most striking feature, grow in fin-like ridges along their backs. While their bodies lack markings to blend better with their surroundings, a ridgewing’s wings have bright markings in the colors of the flowers that grow in their mountain habitat. Occasionally different-colored individuals can be found, but they are rare because their striking coloring offers little protection.

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.

When not wandering around her home mountain, Crown is collecting flowers and comparing them to her wings. She loves to stick the blossoms to her head and tries to form a crown. All Ridgewing females try to make the crowns for themselves thinking it's very beautiful and the males think that this is a waste of flowers. But Crown has a plan: she is a wanted mate, but she will only be with the one that says the crown is beautiful, of course she must be beautiful to him as well. Otherwise she will battle the insulting dragons that showed the wish to breed with her, saying the crown isn't beautiful.