Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Always on the lookout for the next big success, Apevket decided to replace some of the pre-play serials, which had gotten stale, with zany standalone sketches. The first few were duds, being mostly song parodies with little characterization, but from such inauspicious beginnings came some of Roaring Lion Productions' greatest stars.

Rigad, as befits his unusual appearance, often portrays characters that have come from a moon, a planet, a distant star, or some other unlikely place. His character's soft-spoken nature alway hides a taste for destruction that even exceeds Nukim's. Nukim's vendettas are generally personal; Rigad seeks to destroy worlds. Given that he's equally quiet and soft-spoken offstage, some cast members wonder how closely life imitates art.