Cavern Lurker Dragons are nocturnal ambush predators. Although small, they are very aggressive and will attack anything weak enough to be overpowered. Their preferred method of hunting is to lie in wait in a cave, burrow, or other small, enclosed space; when any potential prey passes they will lunge out to grab hold of the unsuspecting victim and drag it back into the lair. Cavern Lurkers have an odd aversion to sunlight and almost never venture out during the day. More commonly sighted are the odd piles of bones they stack near the entrance to their dens. Their mating call is a low-pitched bumping noise.

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.

Spriters are artists whose pieces are created not with a brush but individual spots of color in an oversized scale and then shrunk magically to a smaller size to reveal the detailed works of art. Many of the most talented spriters make their living doing art of dragons for King Teejay IX, and are often thanked with live eggs of the dragons they paint that are altered magically to have a special variant of color.

The spriter who first chose Cavern Lurkers as his subject was given ones with vibrant red wings, which Anshiua finds quite beautiful. To her, the splash of red against the dark tones gives them a striking contrast that she loves and finds much more attractive than her own colors. She has spent most of her life trying to find a red dye that would be visible on her scales, with little success. The other dragons try to reassure her with the fact that they think she's just as lovely as the alternate of her breed but she rarely hears anything other than her own voice of judgement.