Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Shivvr has spent his life fascinated with something he cannot have: the deep sea. He usually glides around near the shoreline of Brenico's lake, singing to his friends. Since he and Levyathon want opposite things from life, they have become good friends, and keep each other entertained with stories of the sun and salt water.

Shivvr got his name because of his nervous gesture, a heavy shudder that runs from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. It first started when he was a young hatchling, after he got caught in the lake ice in the dead of winter. That was when he first met Levyathon.