Pink Dragons are primarily herbivores and only eat meat during the mating season, when mates will exchange kills. When it is not breeding season, pink dragons spend most of their time incubating eggs and caring for their clan’s young. Due to their feminine color, it was traditionally thought that pink dragons were a strictly female breed, but this is not true.

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.

Swoopingwind is a Warrior Dragon. In this particular cave, that does not necessarily mean fighting. Warriors hunt and protect their cave mates. Swoopingwind is an easygoing dragon. Though he takes his job seriously, Swoopingwind also enjoys having fun. For this reason he does not get along well with Oceanflash or that dragon's daughter, Pondripple, who he has publicly told he will never breed with. Despite this, Swoopingwind has many friends, including Balloonburst and Swipingtail, and gets along well with Slashpaw, who he grew up with before the young dragon was frozen.