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.

When Kamri was still an egg, an evil sorcerer put a curse on her that all Water Walker dragon eggs that Kamri met would be frozen if they didn't gender male when they hatched. This was because a male dragon mate was needed to set back the curse, because of reasons unknown to humans. Kamri was very upset about this when some of the Water Walker hatchies were frozen, because it was her fault. She could do nothing but wait for the right dragon to come.