Magelight Pygmy Wyverns make their homes deep under the earth, and produce a flammable, oily secretion from the tips of their tails to make light. The substance is long-burning, and brooding mothers douse their eggs in the oil while they incubate. Hatchlings’ tails subsequently catch fire at birth after coming into contact with their burning shells. Magelights are useful to human miners, as they are docile and easily trained to alert to the presence of methane damps, caved sections of tunnel, and proximity of nearby dragons to ensure the safety of crews.

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.

Pygmy dragons are the smallest category of dragons, being on the same scale as domesticated animals. They are often found around concentrated populations of dragons, relying on their larger brethren to ward away potential predators and leave scraps. As such, the majority of a pygmy’s diet is scavenged. Due to their tiny size, pygmies do not breed with larger varieties of dragons.

Pumpkin is the assistant to a certain "mad alchemist" Almerald, though calling her an assistant would be stretching the truth somewhat. In reality, Pumpkin is what she has heard the humans in a nearby settlement refer to as a "Gopher", though she has no idea what humans would refer to someone who runs errands as a small rodent.

Day in, day out, all she does is collect ingredients, going into the most dangerous of places to find those rare things that her "boss" requires for his work. Pumpkin hates her work, but she knows full well that she has no real choice in the matter, not after the Almerald cast a spell on her that would let him know her every movement, and the promise of being demoted to "test subject" if she ever tried to flee.

There are times when she wonders whether he was being honest or not, but she's too scared to test his words by running away, just in case he was being truthful and came after her...