Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

When Flood Storm was born, it was in the heart of a storm, his real parents, abandoned him, maybe they meant to, maybe they didn't, but all the same, he ended up alone, in front of a cave, lonely, hated. But then everything changed for him. A female bright-breasted wyvern and other larger dragons approached the cave, they took him and three other eggs from outside the cave. Flood Storm had found his purpose to live. Finally, he hatched, later than the others, they had been worried about him, feared for his survival, so when he popped out of his egg, they rejoiced, the one male roaring out his happiness, especially when he discovered that all of the eggs they had adopted were boys too, he was no longer the only male! Flood Storm found his friends, and now he will never leave.