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.

Calm and quiet yet loving and gentle, Charon is one of the flock's storytellers and is possibly the most popular of all, especially with hatchlings.

Raised equally between his birth mother and the mates that were his fathers, Charon lacked nothing as he grew, surrounded with love and affection that shaped him into the dragon he is today. Nevertheless, he always felt that there was something missing, something he couldn't put his claw on.

Until one day, when he found his father Peta's vast collection of books and scrolls. Wide-eyed with wonder, he asked for the older Shadow to read the stories to him, listening with rapt attention as tales of magic and wonder were told. These same stories he then spun for the other hatchlings, engrossing them with his words as the pages had engrossed him.

Little Charon had found what he was missing, and that was a way to share his joy with others, through the tales he tells and the delighted gleam in the eyes of those who listen.