Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

Not the most pleasant of dragons, this male developed a taste for flesh long ago and has been a scourge of the shores ever since. Slipping along beaches and up rivers without so much as a ripple, anyone unlucky to be in or near the water when he passes is quickly pulled under and drowned. His cruelty has inspired more than one set of persons to attempt to hunt him, but tragically these efforts have so far all ended with innocent shimmerscales dead and the murderer himself still very much alive, chuckling to himself in the shadows of the water.