Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

Mistmade spends most of his days drifting in and out of the plains of reality, usually in dark and shadowed but still heavily populated areas (such as the depths of a cave, but not so deep that other dragons would never visit him), or, more commonly, out in the swamp and volcanic areas where he likes to meld with the vapor of the natural steam vents. He spends time in the physical dimension being that he is an important member of a growing herd and has amounted quite a number of friends where he likes to roam in the volcanic steam vents and averagely-deep caves.