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.

Skitzie grew up in a very cold mountain range and spent all of his young life amidst high peaks and snow. He was a little too eager to fly, though, and threw caution to the wind when when his wings grew in. Not long after, he made the mistake of trying to take off in a storm—strong winds tossed and buffeted him for hours, carrying the young dragon far from his family with no way of returning. He was lucky to survive, but it took a while for him to appreciate that; he ended up near the sea, where the water was salty, the fish were strange, and the air was uncomfortably warm and wet. He's still adjusting, but meeting another of his kind there has helped him settle down—though he's still terrified of the many-legged pincered things she keeps trying to feed him.