Black Marrows are named for their dark colored hides which are encased in a distinct exoskeleton. Their skull and the top edges of their spine push out from under the skin as they age. As such, their young need excessive amounts of calcium for this armor to develop. The older a Black Marrow dragon is, the more skeletal their appearance. They often use their skeletal looks to lure in foolish scavengers or terrify predators. These vicious dragons love nothing more than to crack open bones with their stony beaks and eat the marrow inside. Voracious scavengers, Black Marrows will swarm and devour corpses both old and fresh, sometimes even dragging larger finds to the water to allow them to “ripen.” Despite their dreadful demeanour and often horrid stench, Black Marrows are devoted mates and parents.

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.

Aliza is a particularly uncaring Black Marrow. Her life is boring, and she just doesn't care. She was raised alongside every other poignant Halloween dragon in the cave, and because she was just one of a dozen or so she didn't receive much attention. Not that it mattered, anyway.

The reason for her dullness and cynical outlook is just as stated. Or maybe it wasn't. Maybe she had a great early life but she was brain washed or something that made her forget her childhood. Whatever. Either way she still thinks her life is pretty flinty.

Her fellow Black Marrows find her especially dry to the bone and extremely hard to talk to, for her speech is littered with incursive sarcasm and is quite monotone, reflecting nothing but her bottomless, devoid of light, hole of apathy that will forever be full of nothing but general spite and contempt towards everyone and everything.