Frilled Dragons are smaller than most other breeds, but when threatened, they stretch out their wings and frills to appear larger. They generally do not like to fight and prefer hiding to confrontation. Frilled dragons live in small groups and often band together to scare off potential threats. Males also use their frills as a way to attract mates, with those displaying the “best” frills being more likely to breed.

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.

Donbek, for reasons he can no longer recall, has cursed feet. All he remembers is that the wizard was skilled in dance magic and had some reason for taking a strong dislike to him. Now, whenever he moves his feet in a certain pattern, things happen. He's made it rain everything from fish to chocolate chip cookies, turned his weyrmates into a dozen different things, and put the weather through more changes than the average northwest spring day. He sought out Prazal's Academy for Inconvenient Talents and Odd Specialties for a way to break the curse, but instead decided to learn which steps yield which results. Frilled dragons can't use magic, so the curse would make him the first frilled magic-user.