Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

Head meets Desk is a dragon plagued with frustration and ill-luck. No matter what she does, she fails. When she tries to breathe fire, only warm wind will come out. When she tries to fly, she'll fall down. When she tries to hunt she'll get distracted by bright, pretty, yellow butterflies. Naturally this constant lack of success at ANYTHING causes her a great deal of frustration, and she has developed what some might consider an 'odd' way of coping. She discovered as a young hatchling that banging her head against hard, smooth surfaces would cause her to forgot her troubles momentarily (due to losing some 10,000 braincells). So she goes about her day, bungling everything she does hopelessly and then ramming her large, horned head into whatever random, hard surface she can find.

This habit has caused her to break two cave walls, knock down over 40 large trees and anger three stone dragons, in the process of feeding it.