Striped Dragons come in a dazzling array of colors complemented by an intricate pattern of stripes. These bright colors and patterns help attract their favorite food, insects. Because their prey is so tiny, striped dragons must spend a large portion of their day eating. The color of the offspring is usually determined by the dragon’s mate.

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.

Fallen London is nocturnal, asleep before sunrise and awake after sunset. It's been a few decades since she's even seen the blue sky of day. She is daring and careless but has a knack for surviving injuries that should kill her. The dragon has picked a fight with a pair of hellfire wyverns, been "slain" thrice by humans, broken seven bones at once, and so on. Instead of properly dying, there was always a miraculous circumstance that aided her, from a white dragon that happened to be in the area to the sword just missing her vital organs. Dragons comment that for Fallen London, death is not permanent, merely an inconvenience.