Gold dragons are the ones most often killed by humans, who consider their scales to be extremely valuable. These golden scales grant them a high level of protection, similar to armor, and they use this to their advantage in battle.

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.

As cold and beautiful as the gold upon which she coils, Asis thirsts for one thing and one thing only; to add ever more treasure to her glistening hoard. Those who follow her in reverent worship of her beauty (or in abject terror of her sorcery) serve as her slaves, bringing gems and silver and precious carvings with which to decorate the castle she has stolen, located in the far northern wastes where the ice is as chill as her heart. While her size and her magic alone are enough to prove she is ancient, none can recall where or when she might have been born. It feels rather as if she has been there forever, a blight on kindness that grows greater with every year that passes. Her dark influence stretches further and further as the dead from which her treasures were taken pile up outside her glittering heap, and her brooding power continues to swell...