Undine Dragons are named for the water spirits with which they share territory. They have close relationships with these spirits, and are able to communicate with them. In exchange for protection and respect of their mutual freshwater homes, laid eggs are often protected by a blessing. This blessing stays with the dragon into adulthood, and with it they gain potent magical abilities. Sometimes when an Undine Dragon becomes very upset, the ground at their feet may frost over or begin to steam. They have also been observed to manipulate water directly, rerouting raindrops or creating puddles from groundwater. Undine Dragons always live near forest pools, streams, or waterfalls. Both genders take equal part in the raising of young and are very good parents—though they may not remain mated after the offspring are grown.

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.

WordwordS has travelled a bit and learned many writing sytstems, most of which she has found cumbersome—phonetic writing takes up too much space, symbolic writing has too many characters. Her favourite is hexplyph. She went to Nworset to try and convince the government there to shift their official alphabet, putting together a presentation to show off how a single tile of writing, comprised of up to six syllabic symbols, could convey words. For her examples she picked "awesome", "efficient", and "creative"—all words she felt described hexglyph. Unfortunately for her, many of the dragons she presented to struggled to pick out the individual characters from the compound symbol and asked her to separate them out. WordwordS obliged the audience and unpacked her adjectives.