Copper Dragons are masters of stealth, slipping silently and swiftly through the forests and jungles where they live. Often hunting in groups, their prey rarely know they are being stalked until the dragon’s at their throat. In the air they are agile and skilled. Copper Dragons prize family groups, spending large amounts of time teaching their young skills. So great is their love of life and family that they will sometimes adopt orphaned dragons of other breeds to raise.

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.

Chalcogen either lacks a sense of smell or just isn't sensitive to strong odors, and she frequently stays near various smells widely considered "bad" seemingly without noticing. She happily hangs out with the likes of black marrow and cheese dragons, and she sleeps with the cows and horses when on a farm (as long as she promises the humans not to eat any). Anyone who comes across a particularly noisome tree or boulder may assume that Chalcogen is somewhere nearby or used to be. Some say that her farts are lemon yellow and can catch fire on their own if in a great enough quantity, but that is slander because they're actually wheat yellow and are not THAT potent.