Gilded Bloodscale Dragons often spend hours investigating every minute detail of caves, making sure their living spaces are arranged exactly how they like. They crave intellectual stimulation and get bored easily. As such, these dragons prefer to lure in their prey using their sharp minds rather than brute strength, often engaging in battles of wits between their two heads to determine how best to proceed. Seen as eccentric by other dragons, they are often shunned by all but their own kind.

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.

Two-headed dragons are unique enough to deserve a separate classification from ordinary dragons. They have two necks, two brains, two mouths, but one stomach and one main body. The two heads usually work together, but there are times when they will fight each other, snapping back and forth. Their unique anatomy prevents them from breeding with single-headed dragons.

Like most two-headed dragons, Slink and Barker have been together since birth. Barker is the head occupying the right while Slink is the head on the left. Strangely enough, it would seem that Barker possesses twice the IQ of a regular Gilded Bloodscale. With this being the case, it would explain Slink's lack of intelligence. The pair love nothing more than stirring up trouble. They'll try anything from switching the eggs of a nest, to shaving down sleeping Pillow dragons, and even taunting Misfit Pygmies. Barker is the brains of their operations while Slink is the brute strength. Their twisted sense of amusement never seems to let down, and has gotten progressively more horrid with time. Sometimes Slink and Barker will abduct hatchlings from unguarded nests and force them to work for the two-headed beast. These hatchlings remain loyal by punishment and reward, and carry out given tasks for the pair. The other dragons grieve, for it seems nothing can stop this two-headed menace.