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.

This dark creature is a lover of war, not because he participates in it, but because of the buffet it leaves in its wake. Constantly stalking along after armies and taking his fill of the dead, his very favorite sorts of meals are the hung ones; apparently he finds ripping into the dangling cadavers more entertaining than eating corpses off of the ground. A few of the crueler soldiers in the armies he follows have caught on to this habit of his, and as such, sometimes they string their prisoners up in such a way that they'll remain alive; the relief the captives have at what they believe was a botched attempt to hang them quickly turns to truest horror as this grinning Marrow comes slinking up towards them out of the dark, not particularly caring whether his prey is dead or alive, so long as he gets an easy meal. The screams can echo quite a distance and often have crippling effects on the morale of the opposing side in the war.