Vermeil Dragons are a breed known to most for maintaining simple but meticulously clean nests and shelters that, should one be caught out in bad weather, the dragons will share even with humans. They are patient, and make excellent listeners due to their even temperament and curiosity. Their pleasant scent, similar to strawberries but with stronger floral notes, tends to make the stay comfortable. However, these dragons are also known for dispensing extremely blunt advice, particularly on romantic matters. Plenty of humans caught out in the rain or snow have left a Vermeil’s den with unsolicited advice suggesting they admit their feelings before the opportunity is lost forever. While they’re difficult to anger, a threatened Vermeil will generally use its tail to defend itself, smacking the target upside the head.

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.

Vermale is the only "Vermale" member of the Balk Division of Victory Hills, probably in all of Victory Hills. No one seems to have heard of his breed before, although a mouthful of denizens not native to the Hills might know him by another term. His name isn't really "Vermale", but his second visit to the Balk Division's records dome made it such, officially. They put him as a "sunburned Avatar of Change" when he first applied for the Existence Badge, and he caught it after receiving his badge and paperwork and went to the records dome to have them fix their mistake. He hasn't gone to the dome after that, so that visit gave him the reputation for arguing, not valuing what he already has, and (worst of all) nagging everyone on the state of the building and all the ways it could be made tidier.