Spotted Greenwings are relatively small nocturnal dragons. Easily recognizable by the fleshy appendages growing off of their head and rump, they are most commonly seen in forests at night, leaping and soaring from tree to tree. While generally social, spotted greenwings are very quiet and rarely make any sort of vocalization. Their bodies are unusually warm to the touch, though they are unable to breathe fire. Greenwings are voracious feeders and will consume nearly any living thing that they can fit in their mouths.

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.

Shashamsi has damaged her sight in an incident involving an angry Brimstone dragon while she was younger and more brazen. Her opponent's sulfurous breath hit her in the eyes, but barring that and several scars she escaped safely. She would have suffered much in normal conditions, being almost blind and having to hunt for herself and for her family, but the intervention of a human saved her. A traveling tinker took time to craft her a pair of special goggles. Shashamsi has retained her arrogance, however, and dragons and caretakers alike know that in darker nights she leaves without her lens, to prove that she can hunt just fine. In those nights, in the tall forests, one can hear erratic wing flaps and crashes into the tree branches above.