Water Walkers are small dragons that are frequently found around bogs and ponds. While they are flightless, they retain the flight sacs and hollow bones of their airborne cousins. These traits, coupled with their extraordinarily long, webbed toes, allow them to stand on top of calm waters, using their small sails to propel them wherever they please. They spend the majority of their lives on the water, retreating to the tops of lily pads when the waters become too rough to float atop.

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.

Orion's Waterwalker is better known as Water. She is quiet and soft-spoken, usually wandering in the middle of the ocean, separated from society. When she was a hatchling, her older comrades realized how her webbed feet were no good for land travel and placed her into a nearby pond. Surprisingly to them, she was able to walk on top, giving her the second part of her name.

The first part of Water's name came from the night a great storm blew in, toppling her off of the lily pad she slept on. As she swam to shore, she always kept her eyes on the constellation of Orion. When getting onto dry land, a young hatchling from the wilderness explained that she had been looking at that constellation the entire time, and she gave herself that first word in her name.