Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Telkhine Jr was named after one of his owner's friend's dead waterwalker dragon, Telkhine. Junior's egg was abandoned as it was small and cold and least likely to live out of a large clutch. However, Leatherhorn, whom would become his new owner, slowly grew him out of his small, mossy egg. As a kid, she worried that Telkhine II would suffer the same fate as whom he was named after, but like a miracle, he grew healthily. Junior, unlike most flightless dragons, does not care to fly--he keeps to the ground--well, water actually, and passes his time by watching pond animals, staring at a frog's golden eyes for as long as the frog sits still, and chasing herons from the water, not wanting them to eat his fishy friends.