Named after their cloudy, ashen scales, Ash Dragons are large, gentle beasts, although their faces can give unaccustomed folk a fright. Their tough scales and sheer size make them infrequent attack targets, traits that explain why pygmy dragons and other small dragon breeds can often be seen riding on their backs, hiding amongst their large spiked scales. Though they tend to be mostly quiet, Ash dragons have a low, deep roar that is typically only used to threaten or call to others of their kind.

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.

Horble is one of four dragons in a cohort who shared a nest when growing up, and they all still share a territory and still look out for each other. Horble is the most powerful of the group, even more so than her brother. He's younger and larger than she is, with a serious disposition, penchant for defending the innocent, and no talent for telling jokes, so other people in and around that forested mountain region think of Horble as wisecracking and less responsible than the Big Man Show, if they know her at all. That's the kind of reputation she wants to cultivate, and she finds ways to behave to reinforce that her brother is the better of the two and she is no one of consequence. Aside from her dislike of too much attention, this serves a more pragmatic purpose: when the occasional Dragon Slayer comes around to slay the evil dragons, she is never the first target but is almost always able to covertly arrange the enemy's downfall before they've even set foot in the territory.