Harvest Dragons are a large, flightless breed most often found in heavily forested mountains. Normally shy, these omnivorous dragons keep to themselves in remote regions, but in the fall they descend from their high territory to search for food—and lots of it. During the autumn months, harvest dragons will eat whatever they can find, from large and small animals to nuts and fruit. In the winter they retreat into large caves and hibernate until spring, living off the fat they have built up.

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.

Hiyana lives in a little glen that she has slowly cultivated over the few years she has lived there. She loves collecting shiny objects to decorate her little glen and impress other Harvest Dragons with, and although she refuses to go anywhere near the villages at the edge of the forest, she will, when there are no people about, pad quietly down the tracks looking any fallen buttons or brooches to take back to her home, much like the magpies that nest in the trees above her den. Hiyana has a tendency to wake at least a week early from hibernation, as this is when there is still just enough snow to make her glen into a winter wonderland where Hiyana loves to play. Also, Hiyana loves stuffing her face with anything she can get her paws on, even when she doesn't need to, but for some reason she never seems to get fat other than just before hibernation begins.