Carmine Wyverns are active predators found most commonly in tropical regions. They have a poor sense of smell and are primarily dependent on sight and sound to hunt. These dragons are lightweight and quick, and tend to flee from rivals rather than attempt to fight. When a confrontation does occur it usually involves large amounts of posturing and displaying to make the wyverns appear larger and stronger than their opponents, and one will often surrender and leave without a fight ever actually occurring. They are dedicated parents and usually mate for life, though the degree of loyalty to a partner varies between individuals and within individual pairings.

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.

Much of Fariand's hatchlinghood was spent scrounging for what little food still remained in the scorched patch of jungle his clan claimed as home. It had been nearly completely obliterated by a pack of hungry Graves a few months before his hatching, forcing them to find creative ways to fill their stomachs. Like the other hatchlings that survived, Fariand developed interesting tastes in food that remained even after the forest recovered and he wasn't constantly hungry. Not just meat with a rather strong odor (which never bothered him to begin with, due to his poor sense of smell), but bitter plants and mildly poisonous mushrooms that most dragons wouldn't even consider eating. Many find his tastes weird, though he just laughs good-naturedly and says that when the Zombie Apocalypse wipes out the good food sources, he'll be the one who survives. That tends to earn him more strange looks than his eating habits.