Magi Dragons are, as their name suggests, primarily magic users. They rarely use physical forms of attack. They eat anything they can kill, which is almost everything. They won’t kill unprovoked except when hunting, although they may kill humans if in danger. Their strong magic makes them one of the most feared breeds of dragons.

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.

For as long as there have been dragons, there have been dragon storytellers. Even the practice of illustrating spoken tales with carefully chosen illusions is nothing new—a time-honored tradition among young magi dragons seeking to improve their concentration. It wasn't until Pasian, though, that illustrated storytelling began to develop into an art form. He could maintain a remarkably detailed illusion through even the most complicated and demanding parts of a story, and produce as many as half a dozen such pictures throughout the course of a tale.  

Pasian has now retired from storytelling, feeling himself overshadowed by recent advances in the field of illustrated storytelling. He is disdainful of the "moving pictures" developed by subsequent generations of magi dragons, feeling them greatly inferior to his own work, and with some justification. While primitive by comparison, his illusions possess a level of detail that has never been matched.