Magi Dragons are, as their name suggests, primarily magic users. They rarely use physical forms of attack. They eat anything they can kill, which is almost everything. They won’t kill unprovoked except when hunting, although they may kill humans if in danger. Their strong magic makes them one of the most feared breeds of dragons.

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.

Rihol lives off by himself in a cave well-removed from the rest of the weyr, and all sorts of rumors have sprung up about what he does with his time—rumors that all pale in comparison to reality.  He has a knack for invention and can create wonders from a few piles of debris.  As Rihol is generally too wrapped up in his latest creation to want to spare time looking for raw material, he's recruited a flock of pygmy dragons to scrounge trash from the local human village's rubbish heap.  Some of his devices—a machine for purifying water, a clockwork mechanism that runs seemingly forever without needing to be wound, and a paste that turns straw into gold—would bring Rihol enough gold to make quite a spectacular hoard, but he has no interest in such mundane matters, instead tossing aside each finished invention to start work on something new.