Fire Gem Dragons are a colorful, flamboyant breed often found in hot climates, particularly around active volcanoes. Their broad tails store the flames they breathe, which are colored by the heavy amount of minerals in the water they drink. These dragons come in a variety of colors, and will collect shiny trinkets and stones that match their own coloration. Despite their hoarding tendencies, though, Fire Gem dragons are social and will often congregate in groups and show off their collections while fawning over the stones their friends and rivals have gathered, occasionally arranging trades.

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.

Aplowite is an incessant talker and can be destructive if not given enough chores to keep him occupied. His excuse for not learning morals is that he spent egghood and childhood, the majority of his life so far, living in some weird magical humans' timeshare-thing, and those humans bickered about who did the cleaning, stabbed each other over who got what side of the parlor, and other things that had nothing to do with raising a young dragon. Aplowite likes any task that involves making fire and hurling fireballs. In the rare skirmish or argument, he's a wildcard who will obey whichever side picks him up, as long as their order involves fireballs. Luckily, his human caretakers didn't teach him magic, so he's not very powerful, and he isn't stupid enough to try to cause lasting harm to any dragon.