Canopy Dragons love to soar above the tropical jungles and other densely forested areas. Their billowing, layered wings create generous lift that allows them to ascend effortlessly over the warm jungle. While their unique wings do not make them the fastest flyers, they are champion gliders. To further this end, dexterity, maneuverability, and grace are all judged by the females when selecting their mates from the males that can accurately complete the exhausting and elaborate courtship dance between the close growing branches of the upper canopy.

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.

Algebraic is the smallest of the Math Magi's canopy dragons, thanks to a rough start in life. A sickly hatchling, he had little else to do while growing up but sit around and ponder mathematics, moving from topic to topic as one or another of the Math Magi caught his attention. He spent most of his time with Xoryth, in part because she always had some small treat for him, and in time her specialty came to influence his own. While Xoryth prefers problems with applications to real life, what Algebraic works on tends be less concrete in nature, at least at first. Some particularly baffled dragons, after sitting through one of his lectures, call his work downright abstract in nature.