Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

Tealgate Spiral's scales seem to glisten teal and blue in the bright sunlight, or really, whenever he's under any light. He's extremely proud of his scales, and even though people call him a "special snowflake", he'll still brag about his lineage of teal-scaled ancestors, and how he's so lucky to be a teal-scaled Shimmerscale.

It gets pretty annoying sometimes, to listen to him brag about how much better he is compared to everybody else who doesn't have teal scales. Admittedly, he's a wonderful contortionist, and can bend his body into as many spirals and formations as anybody could ever imagine, but that merely serves to show off his teal scales more.

Nobody really interacts with him anymore.

He's a jerk.