Arsani Dragons place a heavy emphasis on community. They are born with the innate ability to sense the emotions of others in their own species, and therefore take great care to ensure the happiness of their brethren. It’s not uncommon for them to give gifts and affection to those around them without warning. This good-natured giving extends far beyond the reaches of their own kind. Anyone who gains the friendship of a Arsani Dragon is likely to receive food, pretty rocks, and occasionally even flowers at regular intervals. The shared connection of the Arsani Dragons also allows them to draw on each other’s strength when performing feats of magic, making them some of the strongest spell casters yet discovered.

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.

Khifk lives with her mother and father in the Thalunderground and sometimes feels that she's the one being the parent around here. Mother is very timid and speaks little but has a big goal of turning their community's waterlogged tunnel networks into a palace, and Father, a water-dwelling dragon without hands, wishes to be a historian and recorder of important events for some reason. Khifk isn't much of a strategist or writer, but she's good at reading and interpreting texts of different kinds, so she's taken on the task of cataloguing her parents' books and other documents and taking action on Mother's smaller goals.