Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

Runner of the air wishes she could trade places any other land-dragon in her clan. This being said, because despite her breed being able to fly- she cannot. She is utterly convinced that this is because she is a dragon who has connections to the sea, and thusly, is cursed to only be able to swim. She wants desperately to fly- to see mountains and plains and just fly for days on end. The only one who truly understood her mysteriously vanished years ago, so Runner of the air is all alone with her dreams of the sky. She even makes raps about flying. "Oh, the sky, it is so fly. The breeze is swift, But so am I. I will fly till the day I die. We lift, and we treasure the gift, of these miraculous wings." It's sort of a rhyme, but she's trying.