Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

Sonja is one of the many dragons rescued and nurtured by the wide ranging clan of humans founded by AnselaJonla. Her egg was found in the desert sands and taken to a hatchery to be raised.

Once she matured, she found her lifemate, a Tsunami wyvern, among the other AnselaJonla dragons. In the tradition of the AnselaJonla flock, both dragons took the same name, Leon, to pass down to any of their offspring that remained within the flock.

It's Sonja's fault that fiery dragons are banned from Meghan's library. All she was doing was looking for one of the White dragons to heal her sickness, and she'd been told they were both in there. Unfortunately one of the symptoms of the illness was sneezing, which was accompanied by involuntary fireballs.

She sneezed. Directly onto a bookshelf. And even though they were "just stories" (in Sonja's opinion anyway), Meghan banned all fiery dragons from that cave. She says it's fairer than asking the Magi to fireproof all of the books.