Silver Dragons are arguably one of the most beautiful types of dragons. They live in high altitude habitats such as mountains. Male Silvers hunt and eat meat. While not as beautiful or radiant as females, silver males possess better physical attributes, such as strength.

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.

Ancient tombs within the woodlands are both the first place ordinary folk avoid and the first place adventurous souls explore. One such crypt in particular has lately gained special interest, whispers of mounds of silver buried within tempting the bold to try their luck. Beyond cobwebs and the skulls of forgotten men, one will indeed find silver, but it is not the sort they hope to find. Those who return adamantly refuse to speak of what they've seen, but oddly enough one and all begin to scrawl images of a silver dragon shortly after their return, and hum strains of a most haunting music...

This story, in itself, has intrigued a new subset of explorers, aficionados of arcane lore eager to discover what's at work. All save one have befallen the same fate as the greedy. But the last one tells of a great beast living deep within the catacombs, haunted by pain, singing terrible songs that lay curses upon the foolish and unwary...