Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

The Shadow Prince of Scandinavia once was a prince of dragons. In his youth, he was desperately in love with a beautiful princess, who also loved him despite all the other lovers she had. For a long time, they secretly met in hidden places, and they were happy. If their clans had not been rivals of each other for centuries, the two of them might have been happily together for the rest of their lives. Sadly, circumstances did not allow them to.

One Halloween, their fate struck. Their love was cursed, and both of them were doomed to fade away, wandering around the icy mountains.