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.

There is a place, in the great expanse of the ocean, where it is said that sailors are afraid to venture. They say a monster lives under the waves there- a great horned serpent, who picks its teeth with fishermen bones and doesn't hesitate to pull ships down to a watery grave. The place is cursed, they whisper, and warn everyone that it would be in their best interests to stay away from the area. They don't want to become the next set of bodies littering the shore, after all.

Of course, Lyecang is nothing like the monster that sailors make her out to be. She is fairly benevolent in nature, as irony would have it, and prefers to be left to her own devices in the grand scheme of things. Lye scoffs at the sailors' tales, seeing as she prefers to observe rather than act, and would never do something as drastic as dragging a boat down to the bottom of the sea just to prove a point. However, she does hold a healthy amount of disdain towards fishermen, for reasons not yet disclosed.