Among the most intelligent of dragons, Razorcrest Wyverns often opt to use their brains over their brawn, hunting prey in elaborate ways and avoiding confrontation through clever diversions. Such efforts are helped by their strong affiliation with the air element; highly magical, Razorcrests can manipulate the wind to distract, disorient, and disarm their opponents. Their wit pervades every aspect of their personalities, which are rather quirky and vary wildly between individuals. However, they are generally amicable toward those who seek knowledge, as they value that above all else.

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.

Panada lives in what he calls a cave-hall-tunnel, because he can't decide which of the three terms to use. It is magically temperature-controlled and usually smells like mushrooms and rusted iron. In it, one can find a mess of paper, clay, and writing implements, which Panada insists is all carefully arranged on purpose and he doesn't need help tidying it up because it'll ruin the precise configuration of his cave-hall-tunnel, thankyouverymuch. His taking a while to locate any one object and the way many of the older paper scraps are deteriorating have nothing to do with anything. If Panada is not outside finding food to eat and store in the clan's silo, he's in his cave-hall-tunnel scribbling and devising puzzles. A few of his puzzles have become popular among community members, who gladly do favors for him to get the latest puzzle, and some have started making up their own. Many of his puzzles are too complicated to figure out, and even more are ideas that don't go anywhere.