Canopy Dragons love to soar above the tropical jungles and other densely forested areas. Their billowing, layered wings create generous lift that allows them to ascend effortlessly over the warm jungle. While their unique wings do not make them the fastest flyers, they are champion gliders. To further this end, dexterity, maneuverability, and grace are all judged by the females when selecting their mates from the males that can accurately complete the exhausting and elaborate courtship dance between the close growing branches of the upper canopy.

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.

Alberto is a free spirit. He would be perfectly happy if the whole world was his alone. He has no particular interest in breeding, though is resigned to the fact that sooner or later someone may choose him—and he is nice enough to realise that as he won't have to look after the egg (he is also something of a chauvinist) it would be churlish to refuse someone else the benefit of his genes. However, on the whole he is far too busy gliding from tree to tree and threading intricate paths between the leafy branches. Occasionally he stops for a berry or a nut, but he seems to need very little in the way of food.

He also loves to sing. Unfortunately, not well. Luckily, he flies so high that few of the other dragons have to hear his croaky tenor.