Brute Dragons are among the larger dragon breeds. They prefer to live in solitude or small groups, nesting in high, mountainous regions. The only time they openly seek the company of others is during the mating season, when males will fight for the attention of females. The thunderous crash of Brute Dragons butting horns against each other in competition for mates can be heard nearly a mile away.

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.

It seems to be one of the fundamental laws of the universe that if something exists, there will be someone who will enjoy watching them. One of the latest such crazes to hit the local human populace was 'Dragon Spotting', where people would come from miles around to gaze and gawp at dragons. While most were content to stick with the safer species, such as the peaceful Whites or the cute Pygmies, there are those that feel the need to catalogue and observe as many different kinds as possible and go in search of more dangerous specimens.

Basius, one of the more unsocial dragons, takes great offence at this lack of privacy and proceeds to chase down and charge at any human he finds inside his territory. More than once he has been up in front of the clan leader Whyte for knocking people right off the mountainside.