Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

Ashclaimer is one of the oldest dragons in the Fallen Weyr, and his years mark his body with scars and wounds that didn't heal quite right. He knew the immortal human Feathers when she was a child, before she was even immortal. Back then, she didn't yet have her plan to form the Featherwing Weyr, a collective of dragons working for common peace and stability. Back then, she was only a girl with calloused hands and a scroll on her hip, trying to learn about the dragons she'd worked to keep warm from eggs.

He loved her like a mother, in some ways. He was abandoned as a hatchling and found by Feathers in a clutter of eggs and scraps. She fed him, she gave him work to do, and she trusted him.

When the War broke out, he didn't know where she was. He tried to find her, to fight for the survival of the Weyr she had so loved. The betrayal of the traitor King Yule came violently and suddenly, a knife in the night. The inbred and messy-lined were driven into the wastes.

Ashclaimer mourns, still.