Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

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.

Most hellfires are regarded as anything but holy; massive, vicious creatures, they are often labeled demons by humans due to their tendency to kill both people and livestock without cause, not to mention their habit of setting the landscape ablaze. But this creature is different. Preying solely on wild animals from the forests, he nonetheless returns to inhabited lands day after day, not to maim, but to attend church. The sight of his massive head poking through the cathedral door once instilled quite a panic amongst churchgoers, but now he is much adored by the people, both for the fact that he keeps the candles lit and the church warm, and because he often gives people rides around the village. The deacon, who has quite befriended the dragon, speculates that he was raised in a nest of whites...