Striped Dragons come in a dazzling array of colors complemented by an intricate pattern of stripes. These bright colors and patterns help attract their favorite food, insects. Because their prey is so tiny, striped dragons must spend a large portion of their day eating. The color of the offspring is usually determined by the dragon’s mate.

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.

Leaves rustled in the cool night, sending a shiver up the spines of several hatchlings who were gathered around the warm glow of a fire, listening to an elder was telling them a story in hushed tones. A Stripe slinked through the darkness, his blue scales seeming to be made of the shadows themselves. He hissed distastefully, and the elder looked up sharply. The elder led the hatchlings away from the fire as Bluett crept in, hatred boiling inside him. He remembered the torture as a hatchling that had forced him to see everything literally, to denote imagination as another word for weakness, and the reason for his uncreative name. He is as good of a warrior as any Black and had gotten there because he did not let silly things like legends weaken his sense of judgement, and was not going to let other hatchlings' heads fill with dreams the way his had once been. Bluett growled deeply and turned away, but a small part of him was longing to hear the story, to believe again.