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.

Masarfa was raised in the normal Hellfire wyvern way, with her parents in a community of her own kind. Everyone was nasty, mean, distrusting and overall, not nice. But she was different. She was an outcast, who had an interest in human's 'Ahrt-werk.' Being away from the influence of her kind, she got another influence. Beauty became her guide. The subject of many human paintings in a small village in northern Europe, and the artiest of countless more, Masarfa came to hate being around her own kind, for no other reason then that they acted like such immature idiots in reaction to the gender of their species. When they one day came to the small village to be their social selves, they laughed at her for being so different. Then the true Hellfire in her revealed itself. After the first cackles left their mouths, she went into a rage that resulted in a very messy village. After that, she wanted to leave Europe. So she spread her wings and flew away.