Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

Because of the Shadow Walkers' ability to slip through block walls, rumors from clan members claim that they originally come from another dimension to explain their strange abilities. Deven has always been curious about where his species originated. Deven Whitwell has the ability to see and speak to the dead, and spirits. Being spiritual, empathetic, heroic, and protective, he sees it as his duty to protect his clan and give peace to the spirits that sometimes visit them. Deven can enter other dimensions and universes by means of teleporting but he must picture the place where he wants to go vividly or otherwise he can severely wound himself and the person he perhaps takes with him, because of this he doesn't do this often. With spirits, Deven can manipulate them, either by bargaining, tricking, or forcing them to abide by his will. In fact, there isn't much that Deven with patience and right contacts in the spirit world can't do, as long as he is willing to pay the price of course.