Golden Wyverns are known for their beautiful metallic scales and rumored magical abilities. Living high in the mountains, these dragons do not believe in killing for sport or pleasure. They will hunt only when hungry and defend themselves when provoked, but will avoid killing to the best of their abilities. Golden Wyverns often mingle with other dragons of similar color and take pride in their shimmering hide.

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.

Pretty much everyone understands gravitation (more commonly "gravity") as a phenomenon that gives weight to objects, but only Peeters finds it fascinating enough to treat as some sort of god. She was raised among grounded dragons: the group is mostly mints and a few magmas, with a growing population of water walkers, and they know very well what keeps them stuck to this planet. They flick their tails with indifference and perhaps annoyance whenever Peeters gets fanatic. "A force such as this," she often exclaims with wonder, "is something to thank every day! Praise mighty gravity! If there's no one to believe in it, everything might one day all float off into space! The universe would be chaos." A few of her peers think her loud praise to this god is her way of mocking them for being unable to fly. They watch Peeters flap gracefully in the sky and think she has some nerve deifying gravity.