Siyat Dragons are extremely smart and have an excellent memory. They are very quick and will often dive through the air making chirps and calls for attention if they feel ignored. Siyat dragons are herbivores and need to eat a lot to make up for all the energy they use with their excitable nature. Groups of Siyat Dragons have a hierarchical structure based on the color of their markings. It is thought that the social status of a dragon is determined by its incubation period—in addition to having different coloration, dragons allowed more time to develop are considered wiser and of higher status.

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.

Wesua is in charge of pears at the Nworset Clonal Gemplasm Repository. She is sick of needing to explain that the repository has nothing to do with unethical experiments with life mana, as many expect from the place's name. In reality, it is a farm meant to preserve at least one tree from as many varieties as possible and offer scion wood to local farmers for grafting new trees. She has tried fruit from every one of the over two hundred varieties of pear grown and protected in the orchards she labours to keep healthy and is happy to share her vast knowledge to help new orchardists find the tree that best suits her needs. While she has access to many obscure kinds of pear, her favourite is one of the most common ones, the fruit that inspired her to take the job at the Repository in the first place. She loves working for her Bosc.