Holiday dragons are a very mysterious breed. They are only seen during winter, and even then it is hard to catch a glimpse of one. They are responsible for the general cheer that spreads during the holidays. In essence, they are the “Spirits of Winter.”

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.

Humans sweat, but dragons don't. 4 electrolytes lost in sweat has been aware of this since he was a hatchling. He discovered it like this: he was frolicking about dangerously close to a cliff and his human, at this time always running around caring for all sorts of hatchlings, ran up to save him from falling. She scooped him up under her armpit and he felt the sweat in her armpit besmirch his mane. At that moment he conceived an obsessive disgust at human sweat. "How can they live with that" he asks himself whenever he sees sweat on his human's brow. "It's so gross."

4 electrolytes lost in sweat has a recurring dream in which he is adrift in a vast ocean with no land in sight. He struggles to keep his head above water, but cannot; inevitably he tastes some of the water. Every night he realizes, with horror, that he is in fact adrift in an immense ocean of human sweat; he is small, inconceivably small, and the ocean is so big...

He always wakes up in a terror in this dream.