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.

Many years ago, an egg with a deformity was laid. It had an ovular shape and was abandoned by its mother who deemed it unlikely to survive. After being collected by a local shelter keeper, it was nearly dead before a dragon owner took it in. As she grew, her owner noticed small demonstrations of uniqueness such as a flatter tail, allowing her to make sharp turns that would leave other dragons awkwardly banking. Her intelligence dwarfed many others, too, besting many other clever canopies.

As she grew, she turned out to be a resourceful dragon, and was deemed by her owner the great name previously owned by one of the most famous Canopy dragons, Rotus.