Vampire Dragons are members of the undead. They sustain themselves by drinking the blood of others. It is said that they are only “alive” at night, and seem dead or asleep during the day, as they cannot endure sunlight for long periods of time. Vampire Dragons can only reproduce by changing the eggs of other dragons, puncturing the shell with their fangs and injecting venom that kills the baby inside.

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.

Caput Mortuum cannot think at all beyond a red mist of insane hunger. For her, life is measured between gluttonous meals of blood that the other dragons cannot bring themselves to watch. She eyes the hatchlings hungrily, always aware of how sweet their young flesh would be, but the two white dragons who flank her never let their guard down for an instant. In the tiny part of her mind that remains sane, she thinks of them as her parents, and loves and hates them at once.