Gold-horned Tangars are a brightly colored tropical breed. They are primarily herbivores, and eat a wide variety of fruits and flowers in addition to the occasional bird. Tangars are well suited to life in the trees; their slender bodies make them light enough to be supported by thinner branches and agile enough to avoid obstacles while flying. Their brightly colored horns, found in both males and females, are used to attract mates.

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.

There are not many dragons in the Land of HeroHorse who are not certain why Fruit Mentos was given the job of naming various hatchlings. Of course, she was offered other lines of work when she first came to the Land of HeroHorse. Nobody can forget the time she almost burned down the library while she was working as a librarian or the moment when she ended up being chased by an angry eagle while hunting. Even the herb-gathering dragons and the unsavoury gangs of Vampire dragons did not want Fruit Mentos to work with them. It was eventually decided that the Gold-horned Tangar was least likely to harm anyone or anything by naming the hatchlings.

Fruit Mentos does her job with a bizarre amount of enthusiasm and optimism. However, the names which she makes up are rather odd. Her favourite method of naming hatchlings is by muddling up a random group of letters until it sounds nice. The need to have pronounceable names may have been what led others to 'help' Fruit Mentos name the youngsters.