Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

Clippen hardly stays within the cave, which has slowly become filled with other dragons. While she is out, she stays  within the coast where her egg was originally laid. Skimming over calm water is her favorite activity, and it relaxes her when she's annoyed at other dragons- which is almost all the time. Rolling in warm sand is also another activity she enjoys. Then the odd time comes where she travels back to her cave, in which many more branching tunnels have been dug by the inhabiting dragons. She gets lost everywhere in there except for the entrance and the river where Waves of Death resides.