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.

Flying Shark just turned into a young adult, but that doesn't stop him from believing that he is millions of years old. Flying for a solid month with no sleep, he began to hallucinate and landed in the water. Sadly, he almost drowned, but was saved by a great white shark, who ate him and promptly spat him out on the beach. Surviving with only a little "drain blamage", as he calls it, the delusions that he is actually several millions years old started. Now he wanders about, finicky about mates because he thinks they aren't old and wise enough to breed with—and they happen to lack leprechauns that he can devour as a symbol of love.