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.

Nivalis is often considered to be one of the Spirits of Winter but is not technically related to the five siblings. Merely, her egg was laid but then stolen by humans hoping to sell it for a hefty profit. No one wished to buy a dragon egg, however, and she was thrown into a valley while the humans left to find something else to sell. This valley happened to be the home of the Spirits. Her egg was quite cold at the time; she was nearly dead within it. The five siblings raised her from egg to adult and then allowed her to assist Aurum in the work of Winter. She is nearly the opposite of Aurum, playful and talkative. However, she also has a kind side—willing to listen to the problems of other dragons without merely gossiping of it when those dragons are gone. She enjoys making little hideouts from plants so that people may hide in them when they need alone time.