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.

Draiocht, always the best and brightest at what he does, recently fell under the delusion that he, and he alone, deserves what amounts to veto power on others' lives. This delusion may stem partly from a human notebook he found that allows him to kill any dragon whose face and name he knows. Several dragons have already dropped dead, seemingly of health complications, and only Draiocht knows the real truth. In addition to this obsession with 'cleaning up,' as he puts it, he also goes to great lengths to hide any sort of evidence that he is, in fact, killing innocent dragons.