Deep Sea Dragons, as their name suggests, spend most of their time in the darkest depths of the sea. They have a bioluminescent dorsal spine that serves to attract prey and communicate with their own kind. As with many deep sea animals, they generally eat whatever they can manage to bait. They rarely leave the ocean floor, surfacing only during breeding season. When they do choose to travel to the shallower depths, they avoid bright lights and will only come up far away from shore.

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.

Very little is known of deep sea dragons at the present, and as such most of those who stumble across them have no clue of what they are. This particular one is more than content to spend all his time in the darkest fathoms of the ocean, and as such the only ones who have run across him are the water dragons from the upper layers of the sea. Unable to understand the luminescent communications, the other dragons, already frightened by the dark of those depths, quickly came to the conclusion that he was some type of macabre, reanimated corpse of one of their kind. They dubbed him Wyrmrot and fled upwards again, spreading rumors of a monster deep below the surface...