Mimic Pygmies seem quite harmless during the day with their impish grins. However, at dusk they show their true nature, drawing on Death mana to imitate the voices of the dead, using their mimicry to lure the unsuspecting into an ambush. Once drawn into the circle of their colony, Mimic dragons will attack in a swarm, disabling their victim then settling down to lap up the welling blood from their still-living prey.

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.

Pygmy dragons are the smallest category of dragons, being on the same scale as domesticated animals. They are often found around concentrated populations of dragons, relying on their larger brethren to ward away potential predators and leave scraps. As such, the majority of a pygmy’s diet is scavenged. Due to their tiny size, pygmies do not breed with larger varieties of dragons.

Tanpaku is a terrible gossip, and she loves to hide herself in the dark rafters of various human gathering buildings to keep an ear out for particularly juicy stories. Whenever she's out hunting with her colony, she always shares the interesting snippets she's heard. She and her fellow pygmies can then lure in unsuspecting victims with taunts and namecalling rather than just curiosity and fear. Tanpaku herself takes an almost childish glee in her ability to figure out just the kind of mockery to use when getting prey angry enough to lower their guard. It's made for some rather entertaining hunts, especially the ones where she and her colony use their abilities to convince their prey that the ghost of their grandmother is vehemently insulting the color of their shoes or the smell of their breath.