Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

Tobeth is a strange one: she makes friends with local sea-birds, and occasionally shares her catch with them, mimicking their chirps and wails until her weyrmates swear she's half gull. The birds, for their part, cluster round her and make their nests close to her usual haunts. Still, they know better than to get too near the other dragons, and when the young ones stray too close, Tobeth rolls a white eye at them and herds them carefully back to their native rocks.