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.

In his day, Xyrith Thuwed was a dragon of many talents, some of which he's more proud of than others. He'll bend someone's ear for hours about his time as an arbiter for feuding weyrs, but goes oddly silent when asked about his hobbies during that same time. He grew up in a time and place when there wasn't much contact with humans, but nevertheless wanted to write about these curious creatures. What he knew about humans would have fit in a pygmy dragon egg without crowding the embryo, so the end results ranged from laughably bad to mortally embarrassing to potentially offensive by modern standards. The romance novels in particular are something he'd like to wipe from existence, but unfortunately some misguided fan donated an entire set to the Stoneheart Weyr library, which has never seen a book destroyed in its many centuries of existence.