Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

A group of Gorons, lead by their tribe's patriarch, Darbus, ventured into their mines to investigate a recent influx of enemies. There, they came across one of the Fused Shadows, and its dark power corrupted Darbus' mind. He took on a strange new physical form and became violent, forcing the other Gorons to chain him up and lock him away deep in the mines. In this form he took the name Fyrus, the Awakening Flame Beast.