Magi Dragons are, as their name suggests, primarily magic users. They rarely use physical forms of attack. They eat anything they can kill, which is almost everything. They won’t kill unprovoked except when hunting, although they may kill humans if in danger. Their strong magic makes them one of the most feared breeds of dragons.

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.

Elminster has a very wild youth behind him. He spent decades as a hatchling sneaking in and out of other dragons' lairs stealing from their hoards. As a young adult he tried fighting against blacks and hellfire wyverns using only his body's strength, and when he started experimenting with magic he did spent a couple of months as a dragoness before he finally managed to undo the spell.

Nowadays Elminster has settled more or less down and lives with Delirium's academy studying and teaching magic. The only remnant of his wild days is his bad habit of sneaking of to meet with this or that beautiful dragoness to spent a few blissful hours together until either his work calls him back or the dragoness in question's mate ends there tete-a-tete.