Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

Spiritalmandaiex may say that he likes to look through gardening books, but the truth is, he is obsessed with botanical romance. When he suspects others of looking at the same soil-filled novels he prefers, he gets overzealous about questioning their moral character, as if what one reads in the privacy of their own weyr somehow corrupts them in all aspects of life. After getting involved in a financial scam that went to court, escalated, and eventually led to an attempted murder, he decided his best option was to move halfway across the planet, where he ended up buying a flat in Nworset's Love Song district, where he now works as a chimney sweep—being intangible, he can simply reach through the masonry to clear the soot from inside. He still thinks about his old home on occasion, especially the parties they threw there. There weren't any individuals in particular he liked, but the refreshments were always superb. He still misses the punch.