Striped Dragons come in a dazzling array of colors complemented by an intricate pattern of stripes. These bright colors and patterns help attract their favorite food, insects. Because their prey is so tiny, striped dragons must spend a large portion of their day eating. The color of the offspring is usually determined by the dragon’s mate.

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.

Stoic but quietly curious, this dragon sleeps with the sun.  Waking up at dawn as usual and wondering where Lightbell was, the young dragon decided it was time to follow her mother's tracks.  She didn't get far, Lightbell flies more than walks, but the direction of the tracks made her suspicious enough to wake early and catch her mother in the act.  Groggy with lack of sleep, she stumbled over the ground as her mother flew through the sky, until they came to a village.  There, she could walk no longer and fell asleep in the woods outside the gate.

Waking some hours later to the heat of the day and the sounds of insects, she made her way into the village, the first one she had ever seen.  Smelling her mother on the tower and comforted by that, she relaxed and began to thrum in time with the midday bell.  She returns to the village each day looking for her mother and thrumming with the bell, and so they named her Claybell, for the Bell Of The Sun That Bakes Clay.