Shadow Walkers are a strange breed that possess the ability to slip between the planes of reality, becoming immaterial. This allows them to hide in the shadows, either hunting from the concealment of near invisibility or evading enemies. Though they become corporeal to mate or to eat, they spend most of the rest of their lives walking in the shadows. Shadow Walkers are wary creatures, though on dark autumn evenings when the leaves fall to swirl in the chill, rain damp air, they may be seen drifting out from the shadows.

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.

Because of Farrin's ability to slip between the fabric of the world, he has seen places that even Zzziyzxi has never even dreamed of. Yet no one believes him when he speaks of flying along side giant metal birds or seeing class structures that rise higher than the tallest tree. But they surround him anyways when he tells stories of his adventures, as he fills their minds with new and wonderful things that not even Celesti'iya could come up with. Farrin doesn't mind that they don't believe him; he says that's better that way. Who knows what the others would say if they knew that there were cultures that don't believe in dragons.