Pyralspite dragons are small, swift dragons that can breathe an intensely hot flame. They get their name from their resemblance to and affinity for garnets of the pyralspite family—they hoard such gems, preferring garnets that match their variant, and can tell the type of garnet from how it tastes. The red-violet variant is referred to as Almandine. Almandine Pyralspites are more aggressive than others of the same breed, and are very witty and love to mock or insult their opponents. They inhabit mountainous areas.

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.

If any dragon had to choose one word to describe the Pyralspite, it would be flamboyant. Hestuor spends many hours preening his scales until they shine like the garnets he desires. Any scales that had been plucked are gathered up to be shined further, before he heads down from his mountain cave towards a nearby human village. He passes out the scales to all of the tiny children, promising them that it would bring them only the best of luck. Once he's done with that, Hestuor heads back into his territory with his head held high. Many others would like nothing else but to beat the Almandine back into submission, but it's a well known fact that the dragon's mother is a legendary Guardian of Nature that nobody would like to oppose. When he isn't busy toting himself as a demigod, he retreats back to his cave to obsessively polish his gathering of garnets mounted in human's rings and necklaces that no longer belonged to them, as some villagers gifted them to him in hopes of a good harvest.