Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

He chased after the clouds as if he knew them, racing through the heavens with all the passion of a lover at long last reunited. Those who watched him assumed it was the energy and foolishness of youth, but those who had met his eyes knew better. They were old, old, old, ancient as the sky and full of a primordial longing, a desire to return to somewhere better than this. Whether he was a mad old beast or some wind-child mistakenly dropped from the heavens none ever knew, but to watch him dance through the sky was to know sorrow.