Coastal Waverunners spend most of their time skimming the waves along the coast, snatching up their prey from the shallow waters. They have developed markings along the leading edges of their body that help disguise them as breaking waves. When they are not hunting, they enjoy playing among sand-dunes and shallow tide-pools. These dragons live in small but noisy rookeries. Some stories say Waverunners can fly for days on end without landing.

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.

Proud and beautiful and the daughter of her clan's leaders, Neyr'iti never thought much about the dangers that lay beyond the camp. Driven by curiosity, the naive young princess slipped into the forest one day despite her parents' warnings. She'd fought her clanmates before in training, but she'd never faced the enemy she met that day. Humans. There were far too many for the inexperienced young dragoness to fight off herself and she was easily overpowered. She would have been killed but one of them, a young man named Jake, helped her to escape. From him she learned that the humans were after her clan's hoards and he gave them enough warning to prepare themselves and win. Jake rode atop Neyr'iti's back at the front lines as they drove the humans off, proving that he was loyal to his new friend and that she had finally grown up.