Ridgewing Dragons live just below the snow level on the upper slopes of mountains. They are a friendly, playful breed and enjoy dancing in wind currents near their homes or plummeting down into valleys from great heights. Their wings, by far their most striking feature, grow in fin-like ridges along their backs. While their bodies lack markings to blend better with their surroundings, a ridgewing’s wings have bright markings in the colors of the flowers that grow in their mountain habitat. Occasionally different-colored individuals can be found, but they are rare because their striking coloring offers little protection.

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.

Read Flute is one of the three adopted daughters of Crown and Jewels. Her sisters include Red and White Fern and Circus Calliope.

The two Ridgewings were abandoned and helpless before Jewels found them. She took them to Crown, knowing that the dragoness had always wanted hatchlings. The two hatched within hours of each other and believed themselves siblings. One named herself Circus Calliope and the other called herself Read Flute. The only reason they did not believe that the other adopted hatchling of Crown and Jewels, Red and White Fern, was their sister was because they overheard Crown and Jewels discussing names for her. Red and White Crown expressed her wish to name her after her family, even though she wasn't, in fact, a member of it. Calliope and Flute looked at each other then and decided that they would be with Fern forever, even if they weren't really sisters. They have kept this promise to this day.

Flute may look male, but in her heart, she is a she and nothing else.