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.

Hastork is an extremely aggressive dragon, as is to be expected since she is a Hellfire. Found as an egg near the edge of the Mountains of Elgar by the human girl named Flight, Hastork kept to herself as a hatchling, never having anything to do with her other siblings. She regards the rest of the dragons living in the Mountains of Elgar with contempt and wishes to have nothing to do with them. Due to her dangerous attitude towards others, most living creatures stay away from Hastork. The only living creatures that Hastork has any regard for are Flight and her brother Conren, a Turpentine dragon; Flight because she raised Hastork and Conren because, as hatchlings, the two were both shunned by the other dragons. On the day of the Winter Solstice, Hastork left the Mountains of Elgar and traveled to the Sands of Melctar, a desert and the home of the Spitfire, Arvynor. She now lives in a cave, alone but happy, and spends her days exploring the desert and its inhabitants.