Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

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.

Athkore is a hellfire dragon, who is surprisingly calm and wise for his species. He was raised by a human and learned traits necessary for survival above ground. His kind lived in fiery caves near the center of the earth and they were rarely seen on the surface.

Athkore was an isolated dragon that preferred as little communication with humans as possible due to the fact that people were scared by him. They also blamed him for anything that went wrong. If he wanted any contact at all, it would be with other dragons.