Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

Toyohime is a beautiful and elegant Shimmerscale. However, she is cold towards most others, because she believes them to be impure. She considers only those descended directly from the original Shimmerscales and Tinsels to be pure, and then only those of the Shimmerscale or Tinsel breeds. If she considers another dragon pure, though, she switches gears entirely and is friendly and playful. She loves peaches and is surprisingly chatty and silly.