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.

This sinuous female lives in a fire-killed forest, prowling between the charred trees and claiming the lives of any creature foolish enough to wander into her territory. But the most macabre part of her nature is what she does with the corpses after; rather than simply feeding and departing, she drags her kills back to one particular stand of dead trees, impaling her victims on the skeletal branches and storing them for later. This grisly scene serves both to lure in scavengers--which are soon killed and made to join the earlier victims on the trees--and to make potential mates aware of her presence. She can often be seen perched on these darkly decorated trees, using them as a lookout post from which to spot more prey.