Black Capped Teimarr are a small and sociable breed of dragon with an appetite for seafood. They can commonly be seen flitting around sand dunes and tidal marshes, searching for crabs and other aquatic invertebrates, or cavorting in tidal pools in hopes of finding landlocked fish. Because of their large wing-to-body size, they are excellent long distance fliers and are known to migrate hundreds of miles along coastlines, or even across open sea to outlying islands in search of seasonal delicacies such as bird eggs, fledglings and schooling bait fish. The males are easily distinguished by their large jousting horns and their extendable neck frill, which they show off to the females through enthusiastic head bobbing.

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 Kroovar Inbar was a small hatchling, he wandered away from his brothers and sisters when they were taken out on their first trip outside the nest. By accident, he was caught in a fisherman's net and wound up inside the trawler's cargo hold, where he was discovered by the fisherman's small son. Knowing his father might try to kill the baby dragon if he was found, the boy kept Kroovar's presence a secret. This ultimately proved to be beneficial, for a fierce storm broke that very evening, and the boat capsized and sank. While the fisherman was never found, his son managed to cling to a piece of driftwood, which Kroovar helped pull towards shore. As a result, the pair became inseparable friends, and when the fisherman's son reached adulthood and became captain of his own ship, he made sure to keep Kroovar on board, trusting that the Teimarr would always help him guide the ship and its crew back home again, particularly when they were in peril, just like he did when they were young.