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.

Captain Mizuface was born under a lucky little girl's bed—if she was his mother, the electric blanket was the daddy...don't think too hard about that—and raised in the upstairs bathtub. When he became too large to fit but too small to ride, he found a new home before he lost his limbs to adulthood. He now subsists on crocodiles, fast-food wrappers, and giving small children rides back to shore.