Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

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.

To glance into his mind would feel like glancing into a pit of horror and darkness.

His eyes are cold and his heart is frozen in a body of heat and flame.

Daring is he who ventures close to this dragon, idiotic is he who looks into his eyes.

He will murder in hot blood, strike others in warning.

Ice is a trespasser in his flaming life, he is the one that makes others tremble at night, he trembles at the thought of shards of frozen water.