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.

Aphoom-Zhah is the bizarre offspring of a Hellfire Wyvern and an Ice dragon. While she herself is obviously a Hellfire, she has a fascination with ice breath. She is unable to breathe ice, of course, but can imitate it to some extent by using magic to cool her flames, something she learned from the Falconiforms scattered around the volcano. Since it is not natural to her, using these cold flames take up a lot of mana. Because of this, she only uses them rarely.