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.

Minik has devoted her life to her beloved mate Jutu, who was struck unconscious by a rock one fateful afternoon. Spending hours by his inanimate body, she calls his name out hopefully, hoping and praying with her heart and soul that one day, just one day he will return. For him to say her name in return. She leaves him only to eat and sleep, yet cannot bring herself to eat anything other than bitter herbs, so she can feel like she is suffering with her beloved. Minik no longer uses her name, as any time it was said her soul would fill with the hope that Jutu had awoken, only to find disappointment that it was a random hatchling. So now she just sits with him, eyes shrivelled from crying tears they no longer have, and giving a plea to anything—anyone—that can save her beloved. She'd never really got along with him before he'd entered the coma, but the image of her partner lying vulnerable on the ground drove him closer to her heart like a stake, for her love ripples with pain.