Ridgewing Dragons live just below the snow level on the upper slopes of mountains. They are a friendly, playful breed and enjoy dancing in wind currents near their homes or plummeting down into valleys from great heights. Their wings, by far their most striking feature, grow in fin-like ridges along their backs. While their bodies lack markings to blend better with their surroundings, a ridgewing’s wings have bright markings in the colors of the flowers that grow in their mountain habitat. Occasionally different-colored individuals can be found, but they are rare because their striking coloring offers little protection.

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.

Bright-scaled and warm-hearted, Hevana's gentle nature and love of humans quickly put to rest any doubts the local villagers had about a dragon settling in their vicinity; it was hard to feel frightened of a dragon who was so eagerly helping to tend your gardens, after all, especially when she was sporting a daisy crown and singing while she did it! Such works, and others like them, soon earned her not only acceptance but affection, and she is now a key performer in the town's Festival of Flowers (the very same one which drew her there in the first place). Yet there is one thing which she loves more than flora and farmers alike; her dear husband, Phopher, another ridgewing of like mind and like spirits.