Shimmer-scale Dragons are a very beautiful breed with small—but highly reflective—scales that shimmer and shine as the dragon moves through water. They don’t have fins or webbed feet, but their long, eel-like bodies allow them to swim quite fast. They were once rumored to carry large pearls in their claws—causing many to seek them out in search of this fabulous treasure. In reality, the “pearl” is of greater value to the dragon, for the fabled treasure is actually an egg carried by a migrating female.

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.

A searing light and a bellow that drowned out the howling of the wind. Those were the images that impressed themselves in his tender young mind, staring up at the storm from the safety of his parent's coils in the dryness of his den. They assured their quaking child that there was nothing to fear, but they misunderstood: he trembled in excitement.

Now a full fledged adult, proud and impartial as the storms through which he sails, this dragon appears to many as nothing more than a silhouette against the flashes of lightning scarring the sky. But those who do evil--those who hurt and manipulate and kill--will find themselves encountering him in a far more personal way than they ever would have hoped...