Grave Dragons are not named for their connections to death or burial, but for the grave expression on their faces. This strange expression is used as a defense mechanism that causes fits of panic and terror in potential predators. Since they only eat ash and charcoal, they do not hunt. Grave Dragons are powerful fire-breathers and have been known to burn down forests and villages alike to make meals. It is believed that the markings on each Grave Dragon’s wings are the faces of those who have lost their lives in fires started by that dragon.

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.

Most Grave dragons hunt whenever they are hungry. They wander from place to place, village to village, setting relatively contained fires and devouring the ash they create before drifting on to the next meal.

Fenreset, however, is different.

Long ago wounded by human hunters, she no longer has the strength to drift freely with the wind, and accordingly she procures her meals in a very different manner. Waiting until the summer sun is at its hottest and the woods creak from lack of water, she sets her blazes then and only then, creating devastating wildfires that can reduce hundreds of miles of land to cinder. She then takes her fill of these ashes, while storing up the rest to keep her fed throughout the rest of the year. In this way her existence goes unnoticed and undisturbed, the locals always thinking the fires are started by natural causes such as lightning and drought.