Black Marrows are named for their dark colored hides which are encased in a distinct exoskeleton. Their skull and the top edges of their spine push out from under the skin as they age. As such, their young need excessive amounts of calcium for this armor to develop. The older a Black Marrow dragon is, the more skeletal their appearance. They often use their skeletal looks to lure in foolish scavengers or terrify predators. These vicious dragons love nothing more than to crack open bones with their stony beaks and eat the marrow inside. Voracious scavengers, Black Marrows will swarm and devour corpses both old and fresh, sometimes even dragging larger finds to the water to allow them to “ripen.” Despite their dreadful demeanour and often horrid stench, Black Marrows are devoted mates and parents.

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.

No one knows how Aulkhori Vur Cayosini came to be so willful and destructive, but willful and destructive he is. His behavior is especially shocking to his parents, Vor Irsa and Fipup Ferrod Qanesc, who tried to instill in their son the difference between right and wrong. As soon as Aulkhori was old enough, he left his childhood home and moved to the plains, where he found a home not far from a human village and started causing chaos. Ranchers and farmers alike hate Aulkhori because of his habit of tearing up their fences so the livestock can run free, then chasing the poor beasts around through the crops until they collapse before eating them. So far, any attempts to deal with Aulkhori have met the same fate; the elusive dragon vanishes for weeks at a time until the search dies down, then returns and goes back to his mayhem. He is fond of lying out on the plains until the vultures start to land on him, then leaping up and devouring them in full view of the village.