Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

Deadly Silentness is supposedly an assassin in service of the Guardian of Nature's Call. As her name suggests, she is silent, but deadly—and, as is not entirely unexpected given her employer, the rumours say farts are her weapon of choice. Of course, there have been no known cases of anyone displeasing the GoNC enough that he has felt the need to have them assassinated, so Deadly Silentness spends much of her time as a proper noblelady. She is particularly frightening when she comes up out of nowhere—there is plenty of scatological evidence of the effects she has—and has been known use this skill to warn those who seek to use magic to subvert the natural processes of excreting bodily wastes at inopportune times. It is usually quite effective, so there is no need for her to go any farther than that.