Pink Dragons are primarily herbivores and only eat meat during the mating season, when mates will exchange kills. When it is not breeding season, pink dragons spend most of their time incubating eggs and caring for their clan’s young. Due to their feminine color, it was traditionally thought that pink dragons were a strictly female breed, but this is not true.

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.

Vera got her unusual surname for her habit of continually asking questions.  Olinbar had intended it for an insult, but Vera chose to wear her surname proudly.  She was always a rather awkward fit at Highrock Weyr—a weyr full of dragons who had survived for generations by obeying their leader was hardly going to take kindly to a little pink hatchling who questioned every aspect of life, from why the sky was blue to why it was forbidden to fly outside the weyr during the daytime—so she left as soon as she was old enough to survive on her own.  Now, Vera travels the world trying to satisfy her curiosity.  Most dragons will gladly humor Vera and answer her questions, since for every answer she gets she will answer a question in return, and some dragon communities have even persuaded her to stay for a time and teach their hatchlings her knowledge.