Seasonal Dragons take on the characteristics of the season during which they are born. Thus, eggs that are laid in spring match the pink flowers and green buds of spring, and those that are laid in the summer grow to depict the bright green of the forest trees and the yellow of the sun. Eggs laid in autumn display the bright colors of leaves falling from trees, and those that are laid during winter take on the appearance of the icy snow.

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.

Though hatched and raised in the forest of Ever-Summer, Sun'itda was conceived in the chill autumn outside and has always felt more at home there than with his mother's people.  Sensing that his father would understand and his mother would never miss him, Sunny left the forest and took up the mantel of wanderlust laid down by his grandfather many years before.  The world had changed since then, or perhaps Sunny traveled to different places than his grandfather-- though how that could be, when his grandfather had traveled southeast and so did he, perplexed the young dragon.  There were many things he was too young to understand.

As he grew older and came to understand such basic things as how traveling back to the same place meant going in the opposite direction, Sunny also came into his first mating season as a young adult, walking quietly on the ground of a forest far from home and barely still in sight of the mountains.  It was the farthest any of his family had ever traveled...