Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence 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. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.

Dragons don't communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.

Gold dragons are the ones most often killed by humans, who consider their scales to be extremely valuable. These golden scales grant them a high level of protection, similar to armor, and they use this to their advantage in battle.

Restless, Felicis is always searching for that which lingers on the edge of his memory, a few broken words of song, spoken in a voice that is as soft as it is filled with sorrow. Those are the only clues he has as to why his egg was left abandoned in the midst of a storm, as to who his parents were, and why he was left to die, and the meanings of the draconic screams that cut off the melody his mother once sang him. He was told by others that a massacre had taken place near where he was found, but little was known of who had attacked, or why, and it was his luck in surviving that earned him his name. He travels as a mercenary, serving those who fight for a righteous cause, not caring that he is a gold dragon, royalty, for he only wants to help others, and by doing so, perhaps come closer to the truth of his past. Even though he is reckless, forsaking his own safety time and time again to save another, his luck has seen him through the dark, as if a guardian angel watches over him...