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.

Glacial and her twin sister, Cold, were named because of their attraction to arctic and antarctic waters. Unlike most of their kind, they hunted best in near freezing water. Glacial was named mainly because she had flown all the way to the arctic as a dare from one of the other hatchlings, like her sister.

What made Glacial Sea unique was the fact that she was able to dive straight down into the water, and was using SONAR to detect her prey. She returned to the homeland every winter to see her family again.

She was diving under the sea one day and found something interesting. A large transparent blue stone. It was small enough for her to lift so she bought it back to the surface and put it in the cave that she lived in and she had fashioned herself. It would make the place look a bit better, she figured.