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.

Hatching in Serpen Sortia's pebble nest, Johanna von Orlean firmly believes her to be her mother. Ever since those days she follows Sortia around and does as she says. If she isn't with Sortia, Johanna likes watching the two-legs with the shiny, metal skin from atop her favourite lily pad on the lake close to the village. She has taken a special liking to one of those so-called knights named Jean. Alas, he isn't a dragon, thus he can't become her mate.

One day while watching the two-legs, she met a frilled dragon called Nevlil, with whom she mated a few times. They had some hatchlings together and watched them grow up, however, her heart still belongs to her knight, something Nevlil can't simply understand. It is hard for Johanna to decide on one of them, even though she knows she'll never be happy with a two-legged, her heart still longs for him.