Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

When Rocr was merely a hatchling, practising the craft of incubating when she came across a small bird's nest, with a speckled white egg inside. Eager to help the bird to hatch, she took a giant breath, blowing a plume of sparks down onto the egg, then proceeded to have a massive coughing fit as the ashy smell clouded her mouth. Upon the ceasing of this, she looked down to see a charred egg below her. Realising what she had done, she cracked open the egg with her paw, hoping, praying to see the baby bird alive inside. The blackened corpse haunts her to this day.

Even now, as she incubates dragon eggs as well as any other red, the endless fear that she will heat it too much, too strongly, and that horrible burning smell will come spiralling out trails her everywhere she goes. Simply being asked to incubate can cause a panic attack, as her guilty conscience feels that she should never be allowed to incubate again, lest she kill the hatchling inside the egg.