Black Marrows are named for their dark colored hides which are encased in a distinct exoskeleton. Their skull and the top edges of their spine push out from under the skin as they age. As such, their young need excessive amounts of calcium for this armor to develop. The older a Black Marrow dragon is, the more skeletal their appearance. They often use their skeletal looks to lure in foolish scavengers or terrify predators. These vicious dragons love nothing more than to crack open bones with their stony beaks and eat the marrow inside. Voracious scavengers, Black Marrows will swarm and devour corpses both old and fresh, sometimes even dragging larger finds to the water to allow them to “ripen.” Despite their dreadful demeanour and often horrid stench, Black Marrows are devoted mates and parents.

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.

Foul Nightstalker, while being nasty, stinky, and bad-tempered like the rest of her breed, is also a terrible flirt. That is the only way that she's found to attract attention, as the stench of rotting meat is a bit of a turn-off. She was once slightly better behaved, but her habits worsened considerably after being rejected by Nightstar Dorkface, her former mate, after she accidentally ate three of their four eggs. For some reason, she's always been prone to doing atrocious things of that sort. Like the time when she made a snack out of a poor little horse hatchling. And then that time when... well, we won't dwell on that. Suffice it to say that she is not the nicest dragon in the cave. In fact, she is shunned by most of the other dragons... except for some misled young males, who find her flirtatious ways appealing. But they will learn, through experience if there is no other way, as Nightstar did, that unless she changes her ways, Foul Nightstalker will never make a suitable mate.