Copper Dragons are masters of stealth, slipping silently and swiftly through the forests and jungles where they live. Often hunting in groups, their prey rarely know they are being stalked until the dragon’s at their throat. In the air they are agile and skilled. Copper Dragons prize family groups, spending large amounts of time teaching their young skills. So great is their love of life and family that they will sometimes adopt orphaned dragons of other breeds to raise.

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.

Copper Galletian is blind in one eye, has a short left leg that can't bend at the knee, and is missing part of her lower jaw—all of which happened when someone spiked the egg and somehow didn't kill her. She's less clumsy as an adult but trips and bumps into things a lot, though she's become a pretty good flier. She says she is from a green planet "a jillion thousand aerial meters" away, where crippled dragons like her are treated with the utmost respect. Copper Galletian stubbornly holds onto that fantasy and sometimes asks the resident nebula to look at the stars and tell everyone that what she's saying is true.