Arsani Dragons place a heavy emphasis on community. They are born with the innate ability to sense the emotions of others in their own species, and therefore take great care to ensure the happiness of their brethren. It’s not uncommon for them to give gifts and affection to those around them without warning. This good-natured giving extends far beyond the reaches of their own kind. Anyone who gains the friendship of a Arsani Dragon is likely to receive food, pretty rocks, and occasionally even flowers at regular intervals. The shared connection of the Arsani Dragons also allows them to draw on each other’s strength when performing feats of magic, making them some of the strongest spell casters yet discovered.

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.

There used to be many more Arsani dragons in this land. Lady Hera, along with her sister Lady Juno, has lived as a protector of their small valley of lilacs and roses for centuries. Lady Hera's daughters and nieces traveled wherever they pleased for most of their lives, but each year, as the winter began to wane, the Arsani dragons returned to the valley for their mating season, their magic filling the air with light-hearted love and song as they loved, ate, and selected mates from the dragons who came from all over the continent to join the celebration.

Lady Hera still remembers that last winter, how one of her daughters gave her a gleaming diamond, how she made a flower crown for her in return, song filling the air. The happiness of those snowy, sun-filled days and her family's magic washed the valley in empathetic joy.

When war came, Lady Hera felt her daughters' emotions when they died. Their anger, their pain, their fear.

It is only she and her sister in the valley now.