Failed attempts to experiment with magic often result in transforming dragons into these hellish creatures. They are extremely dangerous, and will mindlessly kill any living creature without regard to friend or foe.

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.

Cadaveris was once a White dragon exceptionally skilled in healing magic.  So great was his ability that the ill and injured would travel many miles for him to cure them.  One night, however, a gravely-wounded dragon approached him for aide... but such was the extent of the dragon's injuries that it died before Cadaveris could save it.  Having failed for the first time, Cadaveris attempted what no White dragon could ever accomplish—resurrection.  He was so certain that his magic was strong enough that he ignored the consequences of his actions, unable to realize that his magic did nothing but drain his own life away.  The price of his foolishness was death... but Fate sought to curse him further.  After failing to raise the dead dragon, the magic turned inward and raised Cadaveris instead.  Now a pale shadow of his past glory, his once-brilliant mind is reduced to a mindless nothingness, his soul trapped within, screaming for release.  Such is the price of arrogance.