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.

Future Era Productions is known for plays that are full of action, elaborate effects, and enough explosions to give the actors hearing damage, but somewhat lacking in such details as characterization and plot. Most dragons find the plays entertaining enough in small doses, but less so when they're the only thing being offered. Still, there are always enough interested in the latest spectacle to keep attendance high.

Isba is invariably cast as Macsin's love interest, which means that she either gets killed off at some suitably dramatic moment or spends most of the play in need of rescue. She knows she's capable of more, as does the audience and even her co-star, normally unobservant of such things. The only one who can't be convinced is Mavef, who is old-fashioned enough to believe that nobody would attend a Future Era Productions play that starred a female dragon.