Each of the eight dragon races (Great, Mystic, Hydra, Wyvern, Basilisk, Wyrm, Feathered serpent, Bipedal) starts with a set number of creation points to spend on basic statistics, armor, weapons and other powers.
Others who work for Kien include a reptilian joker called Wyrm who can track people by their taste, the brain-eating ace Deadhead, drug designer Quinn the Eskimo, a minor ace mercenary named Christian, Tachyon's grandson Blaise Andrieux during his brief stint as leader of the Jumpers, and a small army of crooked cops and politicians who are on the take.
In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, the squirrel Ratatoskr carries messages between the unnamed eagle and Nidhöggr, the wyrm that resides below the world tree.