Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

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.

Dragonflare is one of the oldest and wisest dragons out of his owner's group. With his age and knowledge, he stepped up to the plate and fostered many of the young ones to win the love of his master, despite his harsh personality. This had actually caused him to somewhat lose his cruel nature, and become the fatherly figure that most abandoned and stolen hatchlings needed. This also acquired him his ever-loyal mate, Shadowhide, who eventually realized that Dragonflare wasn't so much of a bad guy like the rest of his species.