Blue-Banded Dragons are found primarily in mountainous regions with lots of precipitation. Although terrestrial, they are most often sighted near running water and feed mostly on fish. Females are very social and form tight-knit family groups, while males are strictly solitary and will fight any other dragons that enter their territory outside of breeding season. For this reason, females tend to drive males away when they are not ready to mate, or when they are caring for hatchlings. The amount of striping varies greatly from individual to individual, with some dragons having only faint dark streaks on their sides and others appearing to be almost entirely dark blue with paler markings.

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.

Like many of the other dragons of the Weyr of Soft Flowers who were hatched in the Weyr of Flame, Puddleromp prefers not to dwell on the past. Her escape from the tyrant Flameflow's grasp wasn't dramatic; she was out hunting for the tithe, near the edge of the Weyr's territory, and she just...bolted. She still can't say what precisely inside her snapped that day, but she fled all the way to the southern coast and never looked back. Not once.

She found the small Weyr of Soft Flowers and joined in its early days, serving as a fisher to build the community's stores. She has a small cave of her own, a bit further from the rest, where she can have her privacy. Every spring, she receives a strange visitor, a dragon who calls himself Lord Dionysus with eyes like spring buds, glowing with magic. She likes him, with his serious frivolity, his preening, earnest love. She likes to tease him, see the startled look on his face, as if she were only a mortal tugging a god's whiskers. Perhaps she is.