When Water Dragons mature, they lose the ability to survive on land, entering the water permanently. They are adept swimmers and eat whatever fish are in the lake they live in. They tend to inhabit the same lake for their entire lives, although a few live in the ocean and swim all over the world.

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.

According to the small village on the shore of lrMAn's lake, she is a man. The villagers have a rule that only men have the right to vote, and the large dragon that controls the local water supply wants a vote, so they decided she must qualify as a man. Her real name is a wholly-unpronounceable telepathic concept, so the name she generally goes by comes from the phrase she shouted at the human mob in order to get her vote. She also has "angry dragon veto power" to modify any law passed by the village's government, which the people are okay with because she uses the power only occasionally. Her most recent use of this was when she decided that a woman is a type of man, and given that every man gets to vote, the type of man generally known as a woman definitely has the right to vote.