Gold dragons are the ones most often killed by humans, who consider their scales to be extremely valuable. These golden scales grant them a high level of protection, similar to armor, and they use this to their advantage in battle.

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.

She rose with the sun- it's a gradual rising, a slow breaking of sunlight over the peaks of mountains, cresting all at once with morning sky. It was these mornings in which she bathed in the sunlight, dancing and twirling as the light outlined her amber wings and shone in her eyes, every scale not untouched by a bath of gold and new beginnings. Those who knew her see of her dances in the sun's risings and the sun's settings and whisper rumors of the dragon who was the sun gracing the land itself, the epitome of ascending and descending. Ah, but those who truly knew her would know that rumors remain rumors and that she merely loved the sun as much as she did her silver-scaled lover, Tsumuragi; when she rose, he arched with her, twirling about her careening body, claws interlocking as they drop down and, with a sudden jolt, jerk upwards in a twirl, a flashing of scales till they return to settle for the rest of the day.