Gold dragons are the ones most often killed by humans, who consider their scales to be extremely valuable. These golden scales grant them a high level of protection, similar to armor, and they use this to their advantage in battle.

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.

Though her beauty is like that of the stars, Tmerr's demeanor is not far from them either- cold and distant, she remained completely solitary for the first centuries of her life. That is not to say she is cruel. However, she spent those first centuries pursuing only a single task: killing humans.

Tmerr was orphaned before her wings grew in a savage attack by bandits hungering for Gold Dragon hides. Both her parents were murdered before her eyes, and their scales were hacked from their bodies and hauled away before she could move from hiding to intervene. Now Tmerr remembers little of her parents but their heartbreaking remains, stripped of all their dignity, and though it was the cause for her killing she kept thoughts of them from her mind. She remained emotionless in her slaughter. She was not without reason, however, and destroyed only those humans whose actions deserved death.

Though her childhood can't be restored, Tmerr has found greater reason to live in her love for her mate.