Sunrise Dragons are closely related to sunset dragons. However, their behaviors differ greatly. Sunrise Dragons prefer to live in large groups and enjoy basking in the early morning sun. They are usually most active in the morning, and go to sleep in the early evening.

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.

They said Archasaeir, able to be larger than life at the command of his sweeping language that convinced those who listened he was capable of miracles, could see into a dragon's very being, even possess the soul. It was these rumored gifts, a great exaggeration of slight psychic abilities that gave him his name though his true gift was language. But now he is nothing, only a shell of his former self. Left in ruin by the poison that ravaged his once-extraordinary mind, left him wandering the fog of who he really is: the poison of the Vampire. He retained the magnificent colors of a sunrise, though he hangs in a strange limbo between life and death. Neither one nor the other, lost in his own mind, he now drifts aimlessly searching for something that no longer has meaning. But when the moon shows her shining face and the poison is weakest, Archasaeir enjoys a day and a night of wonderful clarity, proof that his contrition can be cured.