Gilded Bloodscale Dragons often spend hours investigating every minute detail of caves, making sure their living spaces are arranged exactly how they like. They crave intellectual stimulation and get bored easily. As such, these dragons prefer to lure in their prey using their sharp minds rather than brute strength, often engaging in battles of wits between their two heads to determine how best to proceed. Seen as eccentric by other dragons, they are often shunned by all but their own kind.

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.

Two-headed dragons are unique enough to deserve a separate classification from ordinary dragons. They have two necks, two brains, two mouths, but one stomach and one main body. The two heads usually work together, but there are times when they will fight each other, snapping back and forth. Their unique anatomy prevents them from breeding with single-headed dragons.

Like others of her kind, Acumen Quilltail thirsted for knowledge from the moment she hatched. So much so that she often trailed after passing philosophers, herbalists, scribes and physicians in secret, hoping to overhear some of their secrets and increase her intellect. Late one night, while she was flying past a castle in search of her evening meal, she passed by a tower window and spotted the royal astrologer and his brother, the palace cartographer. The pair had broken their last quill and were fretting over how to make their records without it. Feeling sympathy for the two brothers, Acumen entered the room and offered to act as their scribe by using her tail for a quill. Thus, Acumen Quilltail not only received her name, she gained a permanent home in the castle. To this day, she continues to serve the astrologer and the cartographer as their personal scribe, accepting only the intellectual stimulation that came with the job as her payment. And perhaps, some meat from the kitchens.