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.

Most canopy dragons are playful, noisy creatures, wheeling throughout the high upper branches in elaborate dances and games. But this creature is far different. Preferring to spend much of her time on the forest floor, the crumpled appearance and faded colors of her wings provide her with wondrous camouflage, giving her the appearance of nothing more than dead foliage. More than one pup has been badly startled when what they supposed to be a pile of decaying leaves has given a heavy sigh, stood up, and treaded away.

No one is quite certain why she acts as she does, but rumor has it that she lost her mate and young due to hunters, and has since taken up a more cautious, lonely existence on the wood's bottom.