Gold dragons are the ones most often killed by humans, who consider their scales to be extremely valuable. These golden scales grant them a high level of protection, similar to armor, and they use this to their advantage in battle.

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.

Every now and then, summer seems reluctant to depart. Even as the trees drop their leaves in dusty swathes and the grass begins to fade, the sun burns with all its brilliance, casting down a lazy and nostalgic warmth upon the world--the last memory of a summer long since lost. It is during these peculiar autumns, and only then, that this dragon may be seen. The way she appears--a shine obscured by heat, the dead leaves swirling around her legs, the trees seeming to rustle in delight at her approach--that many have dismissed her as mere legend, a phantom of the autumn fogs, nothing more. But those who have seen her know better, and never forget the soft smile with which she regards them, a promise that summer will come again.