Avatars of Change are unpredictable, exuberant dragons whose unique connection to magic has saturated their entire bodies. It is said that possessing one of their iridescent scales can change one’s fate, and many have sought the favor of these dragons hoping to receive a scale as a gift.

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.

As an Amazing, Wonderful, Shining, and Other-nice-adjectives Avatar of Change, Tufter wants to influence other dragons and humans about what's "in". Nothing is more than important than changing his scarf or catchphrase or the like and then convincing everyone else to follow his lead. He'll tiptoe on twos singing a song about scallops and expect for his behavior to be seen as the next fashionable thing, which he'll insist is not a fad, except later he will move on, stating the thing he was doing is now "out". The influence of the Great, Illustrious, Dashing, and Other-nice-adjectives Avatar, he believes, should be enough to make others agree to do what he does. Tufter's styles change faster than most anyone can keep up even if they tried to copy him, but a few people over the millennia have managed to do so, and some trends have even remained "in" to them long after Tufter abandoned them.