Blue-Banded Dragons are found primarily in mountainous regions with lots of precipitation. Although terrestrial, they are most often sighted near running water and feed mostly on fish. Females are very social and form tight-knit family groups, while males are strictly solitary and will fight any other dragons that enter their territory outside of breeding season. For this reason, females tend to drive males away when they are not ready to mate, or when they are caring for hatchlings. The amount of striping varies greatly from individual to individual, with some dragons having only faint dark streaks on their sides and others appearing to be almost entirely dark blue with paler markings.

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.

Hikaeme has a fondness for eating leaves speckled with morning dew and rainwater. While the majority of her diet consists of fish, she finds that she prefers to eat pairs of fresh leaves and dried seafood. Her living area is filled with different shelves of preserved and smoked fish, which she keeps neatly arranged and orderly so she can pick each day's meals based on whatever mood she's in. The hundreds of different combinations she has come up with have resulted in her knowing where herbs and edible leaves grow, and her days are spent traversing the mountainside, checking on the patches of wild plants she harvests from.