Canopy Dragons love to soar above the tropical jungles and other densely forested areas. Their billowing, layered wings create generous lift that allows them to ascend effortlessly over the warm jungle. While their unique wings do not make them the fastest flyers, they are champion gliders. To further this end, dexterity, maneuverability, and grace are all judged by the females when selecting their mates from the males that can accurately complete the exhausting and elaborate courtship dance between the close growing branches of the upper canopy.

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.

The author of a column called

"Stories to be Read for Pleasure"

Spooked a wyrm who thought her treasure

Was threatened by the canopy she saw, and promptly mauled.

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Ever since, he has been scared

Of meeting others, going out at night

And sudden movements—he's impaired

By flashbacks of the injuries he suffered from that flight.

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His sister helps him feel okay

And that ridgewing named for verse

But strangers make him hide away

He knows he needs a therapist to make his fears disperse.

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Until he finds one, he's unknown,

His well-read column goes unsigned.

For now, he wants to be alone

To meet a therapist takes courage that right now he cannot find.