Red Dragons are similar to typical story book dragons. They shoot flames, can fly, etc. However, they aren’t evil creatures as depicted in myths and won’t go around raiding castles, killing knights, or kidnapping princesses. They live in a variety of habitats, from forests to coastlines to abandoned castles, usually in warm climates, and eat whatever living creatures they can find.

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.

Cinder Science, as his name suggests, is a very scientific and methodical dragon. He specializes in figuring out new uses for fire and heat. It might not sound very important, but through Cinder Science's research he has found hundreds of ways to use charcoal and burnt plant matter medicinally. To his extreme annoyance, other dragons have taken advantage of his research and used it in ways that give him a bad name. His pride and joy, the research on the effects of smoke of the pongi plant, have shown that an overdose can cause one to black out. Youngsters throw smoldering bushels of the plant around and cause chaos. Because of the bad reputation that caused him, Cinder Science was forced to lock up his notes of a recipe that could cure a fatal disease because it could also be used as a hallucinogen.