Feisty and energetic, Whiptail Dragons pride themselves on their speed and agility. It is not unusual to see several whiptails racing each other. Though fragile, they can easily evade attacks with their superior speed, and often use their long tails as a weapon, giving rise to their name.

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.

Sudhin is the second L-listed daughter in a large, business-oriented family. The wealthy and shrewd elder adults have plans for every eventuality, so survival is no issue for the clan. Sudhin and her siblings oversee small and medium-sized dealings but otherwise have a lot of time to do other things, and everyone has a job and set of interests. She's gone into accounting, specifically auditing, and because it would be suspicious is she audited her own family's enterprises, she works with a group of humans who travel to various businesses in the region. The number of years Sudhin's been in the group is twice the age of the oldest human currently there, and only she can say she knew its founder personally, so nobody bats an eyelash at a whiptail accountant. Newer members might ask why she doesn't have a "running-related job", to which she asks why they don't have a "hair-related job", because they have hair.