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.

Silent and quick, it is no wonder that Yvonal scared the rest of the hatchlings when she was one, moving without a sound and always turning up unexpectedly. Covering their fear with cruelty, they mocked her for her abilities and jeered and catcalled whenever she was passing by them, evicting her deep, mournful eyes whenever she raised her head to meet their glare, as if asking "Why" The glance would terrify them anew and they kept at it, calling her a ghost or witch trying to curse them, as she sunk deeper and deeper into the shadows, the only place she ever felt truly safe. Though it was long ago and the dragons responsible finally realized the hurt of their actions and apologized, the wound is still there in her heart, having faded away but never truly left.