Ridgewing Dragons live just below the snow level on the upper slopes of mountains. They are a friendly, playful breed and enjoy dancing in wind currents near their homes or plummeting down into valleys from great heights. Their wings, by far their most striking feature, grow in fin-like ridges along their backs. While their bodies lack markings to blend better with their surroundings, a ridgewing’s wings have bright markings in the colors of the flowers that grow in their mountain habitat. Occasionally different-colored individuals can be found, but they are rare because their striking coloring offers little protection.

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.

Ridge is known in his mixed-breed group as the hummingbird watcher guy. He's no expert and probably has nothing to contribute to the body of knowledge, so he says this is just a hobby. He never confidently says that, for sure, this is a fact about so-and-so hummingbird because he doesn't want to be a source of misidentification or other misinformation. How ashamed he would be if someone wrote it down and it turned out to be wrong. There's one type of hummingbird that Ridge is pretty sure isn't found anywhere outside his group's borders. It's green, purple, magenta, and brown with white wings and a short beak, and it seems less territorial than other hummingbirds, but that could just be bias. He hesitates to give it a name because surely, someone else has already done so. But, for fun, he likes to call it Geoff because nobody around this mountain is called Geoff, so there'd be no confusion. How mortified he would be if he accidentally slandered someone when he was referring to animals.