Mint colored dragons are the most peaceful of all dragons; they only eat plants unless they scavenge meat from an already dead animal. They also have no ways to attack others or defend themselves. They are much smaller than other forms of dragons since they only double in size when they mature. Mint dragons are unable to use magic and cannot fly since they lack wings. Their looks have given rise to the common insult of calling dragons “large lizards.”

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.

Padrei is a daring little dragon, but not as daring as her father, Noli. She loves the grashiglitterberries master brings home everyday from her farm, so when she is distributing them, when the basket comes to her, she takes more than she is supposed to. Her master, being muddle-heded, does not notice, and just gets more berries and comes back. There is one thing bad about grashiglitterberries, though: If you eat more then 3 a day, which is the number each dragon should get, you get a bad tummyache. Every night, Padrei has to endure her painful tummy as she drags off to bed, never daring to tell the master, risking that she might be caught.