Stone Dragons have a tough outer covering made of a stone-like material. They eat rocks, using the minerals they contain for nourishment and to keep up their stone outer shell. They rarely move, and are the heaviest of all types of dragons. Although they have wings, indicating flight ability, no one has ever seen a stone dragon flying.

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.

Still as the stone she resembles, Qyna stands sentinal above a lush, peaceful land. Stolen as an egg by a human possessed of a love for strange rocks, she was raised clumsily but warm-heartedly once the event of her hatching revealed her true nature. She came to love her humans, and while they happily told her she was free to go and live wherever she wished, it was her choice to remain and guard their tiny village.

As the years passed, her origins became lost to legend, and then lost to time. The people residing in the Valley of the Stone Dragon have forgotten that it held any other name, and take for granted the fierce "statue" that somehow dissuades bandits and beasts from preying upon them. Though mothers still honour the strange tradition of presenting their newborn offspring to the dragon, telling her the child's name and allowing her a whiff of its scent, thereby unknowingly granting it free passage throughout the valley as it grows.