Deep Sea Dragons, as their name suggests, spend most of their time in the darkest depths of the sea. They have a bioluminescent dorsal spine that serves to attract prey and communicate with their own kind. As with many deep sea animals, they generally eat whatever they can manage to bait. They rarely leave the ocean floor, surfacing only during breeding season. When they do choose to travel to the shallower depths, they avoid bright lights and will only come up far away from shore.

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.

Otharkel Hesjing was once a ruthless dragon. She killed just for 'fun' and was feared by her kind. They kept their distance, which was just how Otharkel Hesjing liked it. But, something stirred inside her. When she badly injured one of her own kind and watched their body sink slowly to the bottom, she realized that what she did was wrong. She swam under the body and headed for the surface with it on her back as fast as she could. Then she roared and screeched for help, flopping madly about, panicking, until a small white dot in the sky gave her hope. She roared louder than she ever had before, and suddenly a beautiful white dragon was hovering above the oceans surface. Otharkel pushed the body of her fellow deep sea dragon closer to it. The white dragon healed the dragon with its magic, then flew off. Otharkel turned to her fellow deep sea dragon with tears in her eyes, then turned and swam off, apologizing to everyone she met along the way.