Ridgewing Dragons live just below the snow level on the upper slopes of mountains. They are a friendly, playful breed and enjoy dancing in wind currents near their homes or plummeting down into valleys from great heights. Their wings, by far their most striking feature, grow in fin-like ridges along their backs. While their bodies lack markings to blend better with their surroundings, a ridgewing’s wings have bright markings in the colors of the flowers that grow in their mountain habitat. Occasionally different-colored individuals can be found, but they are rare because their striking coloring offers little protection.

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.

He remembered the tapping in the damp, dark cave with his mother, if only for a short while. He was stolen from his mother, so shortly after hatching, he wondered if she was his mother after all. Humans, he thought, were wretched creatures without morality. They thought that the true monsters were worth being imprisoned, they thought the true monsters were like his mother. He figured, on the contrary, it was really humans who were the more gruesome, terrible monsters.

Nevertheless, he stayed far from humans, who would normally try and capture him at first sight. It was tiring, after all, to need to evade them all the time.