Silver Dragons are arguably one of the most beautiful types of dragons. They live in high altitude habitats such as mountains. Male Silvers hunt and eat meat. While not as beautiful or radiant as females, silver males possess better physical attributes, such as strength.

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.

Every one of Hawktalon's dragons has a family, recorded on the piece of aged parchment that she always carries. But usually they only go one or two generations back. It has become Argentinium's obsession to find a dragon's entire history, even for those who were once wild or were abandoned and left to die as hatchlings. By visiting other caretakers he has managed to trace several dragons' lines back to their Caveborn roots. His ultimate goal is to know every dragons' lineage, though he often reaches dead ends when dragons with shady pasts have done their best to erase their names from all written documents.