Canopy Dragons love to soar above the tropical jungles and other densely forested areas. Their billowing, layered wings create generous lift that allows them to ascend effortlessly over the warm jungle. While their unique wings do not make them the fastest flyers, they are champion gliders. To further this end, dexterity, maneuverability, and grace are all judged by the females when selecting their mates from the males that can accurately complete the exhausting and elaborate courtship dance between the close growing branches of the upper canopy.

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.

Masirei had no reason to be genuinely fearful until the slaughters. She was invested in clan history and knew of the Sonen incident, which was the near extermination of an entire dragon lineage and the end of the Sonens as a clan. But that had been mostly in open air and ground with clear motives, and it was a long time besides.

These new attacks occurring around Halloween were of an entirely different nature. She was very close to being a mutilated corpse, with several attempts made on her life by unknown assailants. For now, she continues her historian duties and gathers food as usual. But Masirei never does anything alone anymore.

And unknown to her, the strange sporadic pains in her body are NOT from stress. Magic was a key part of all the attacks, after all...