Black Capped Teimarr are a small and sociable breed of dragon with an appetite for seafood. They can commonly be seen flitting around sand dunes and tidal marshes, searching for crabs and other aquatic invertebrates, or cavorting in tidal pools in hopes of finding landlocked fish. Because of their large wing-to-body size, they are excellent long distance fliers and are known to migrate hundreds of miles along coastlines, or even across open sea to outlying islands in search of seasonal delicacies such as bird eggs, fledglings and schooling bait fish. The males are easily distinguished by their large jousting horns and their extendable neck frill, which they show off to the females through enthusiastic head bobbing.

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.

Hummeri Magneetti is Finnish for "Lobster Magnet", as every time he jumps in the water a lobster comes up with him in a painful way; clamped to his scales as hard as it can pinch. If Hummeri tries to bite the lobster and make seafood out of it, it lets go and splashes back into the water. Valk has examined this many times, but the only thing he found was that a lobster has a 1 out of 1000 chance of being blue. Lohikaarme thinks it is a gift, but Hummeri complains of it as a curse. He still dives in as much as anyone else, but often throws rocks in a random direction to scare off the lobsters so he can focus on clams. (That can be very amusing to watch).