Aria dragons are a brightly-colored and sprightly breed, perhaps most adored for their lyric calls. Their song-like melodies fill the areas they inhabit; their coos resemble those of birds, only more elegant and refined. They have fairly strong magical capabilities, but tend to reserve these strengths for last-minute defense, choosing to live their lives in simple peace. Arias, sticking to the tropics, typically live quite far from human settlements, giving rise to the previously held belief that they had gone extinct.

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.

The first female dragon to grace the care of her master, Bright as a Rose, or simply, Rose, has helped to care for the hatchlings that have come to become a part of the cave she lives in for a long time. Hatchlings can often be seen listening to her, as they love the sound of her cooing, and it amuses even the roughest playing hatchling. She has a great calming effect on the cave she calls home.

Mated to the seasonal dragon, Bjart, she does not see him all that often, as he tends to vanish when it is not winter, but she loves him anyway. She has had other lovers, but she is only interested in two of the others, and after tiring of Bjart's hiding, she picked a young black dragon known as Lucky Boy as her second mate.

She has many children, some gone to far off caves, but she loves them all, unconditionally even so.