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.

Kabeka is a very vain dragon. Whenever she spies a bit of dirt marring the brilliant gold of her scales she insists on a bath. The other dragons think her to be too prissy except her mate Diabolos Delight.  Kabeka lives for her mate and their son Joreth. She prides herself on being Vampyre's first rare as if, somehow, she managed to follow Vampyre home as an egg. The other dragons laugh at this and say that Vampyre just had a bit of luck in nabbing Kabeka's egg from the abandoned cave.