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.

Vilisci is an observer; a dragon so intensely passive that she's acknowledged as the Cave Judge without ever being (officially) selected. Dragons come to her, plead their cases, and wait. It could be minutes, it could be days before she finally gives her verdict, but it is always a fair judgement, and even the loser of the 'case' often sees that.

Vilisci believes that acting as the Judge is far more trouble than it's worth, but she has yet to find a way to escape the undesired attention without drawing more to herself.