Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

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.

Brazyel has always been a troubled girl. To this day, she still cannot fathom how her parents even decided to tolerate each other in the first place. Her upbringing was essentially a tug-of-war between her perpetually angry hellfire mother and her collected, caring gold father. Mommy tried to raise her in the great hellfire tradition of being a total axe-crazy control freak, but her father was going to have none of that: their little girl was going to grow up into a LADY. As a result of this unexplainable parenthood, she now enjoys talking to jerks, throws a tantrum if she meets someone with an injury, and is fascinated with sticks. She searched far and wide for someone who could comprehend this cluster of personalities, and she found it in Alaskaveire, a mystical fellow who presided over a lava field. She settled down with him knowing that they couldn't be parents together, but that's fine: she doesn't think she could deal with children when she barely knows what to do with herself.