Pillow Dragons are covered in enormous amounts of fur affectionately referred to as fluff. Despite their deceivingly large size, they can still fly even with such tiny wings because their bodies are remarkably light. Pillow Dragons have a habit of sleeping for up to eighteen hours a day, waking only in short bursts. During their few waking hours, they take the time to hunt for prey. Once a pillow dragon becomes an adult, its fur grows very slowly. Pillow dragon fur is used to make very expensive and valuable cloth known as “dragon cashmere.”

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.

In legends of old Hawai'i, there was the moon goddess Hina, mother of the demi-god Maui who pulled the Hawaiian islands up with a fishhook. Hina had found an egg in a hole under the bark of a koa tree one day on her routine hike up the slopes of a mountain for bark for her kapa (bark cloth); where the clouds floated ever so slowly on the forest floor. This was strange to Hina, but she decided to take the velvet-soft egg home and took care of it. The velvet-fuzz on the egg reminded her of the mudhen bird known as 'alae made sacred to her. When the egg hatched, the naked creature born was one only a mother could love. Hina raised it lovingly and as it began to grow its downy white fur, she named it Ka-'Alae-Kakea; the albino mudhen. Although Ka'alaekakea was no legendary being, Hina loved him so. It is the fur of Ka'alaekakea twisted finely with which Hina's son Maui used to pull up the Hawaiian islands. Hina enjoyed taking naps with Ka'alaekakea on his back in the pleasant shade.