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.

Spessartitan DeepFire (after the gemstone: Spessartite Garnet) was the 43rd dragon to make his home in the clan cave. Although others of his species may be vicious and cruel, he is anything but. The Clan Mother fervently attributes this to his upbringing among the other clan dragons, and most of the clan elders agree with this rationale. This is not to say that he does not possess a deep fire that burns within, for he has made quite a name for himself as a ferocious defender of the clan and flies beside the strongest dragons of The Red Claw. Surprisingly, none of the Reds have challenged him to date, even Pyropeathius with all his anger and rage tends to avoid conflict with the hellish Spessartitan. There is concern, however, at what might happen if another of his species is ever introduced into the clan cave, and so, the Clan Mother seems to resist the urge to rescue any others of his kind. Spessartitan does not mind this and seems content to remain the clans only Hell Fire!