Pyropellis Wyverns are most commonly encountered swooping through the trenches and craters that dot their volcanic abodes, bathed in stifling heat. While their tough, mottled hides blend in seamlessly with the volcanic rock that surrounds them, Pyropellis Wyverns stand out due to the fervent flames that cloak their backs. Unable to produce a flame, these dragons secrete a highly flammable substance from their backs, which they will find some way to set alight. This fire primarily serves to intimidate and daze unfriendly strangers, keeping snapping maws away from the necks and back of the dragon. The flames also serve as a way to bond: young hatchlings are often first set aflame by their parents. Fire-breathing dragons may supply their mates with flames. It is not uncommon to find a Pyropellis sporting flames unique to other species of dragons, having made contact with those flames.

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.

Spinebuster has heard about this teenaged farmkid with a bow and stick who's on a "quest to slay the fire dragon". She hopes she's not that fire dragon and can't remember if she did anything that would anger any human enough to want to kill her. She hasn't been sleeping as well since she learned about this farmkid, but she isn't too worried, either. It seems easily distracted, and the other humans in nearby towns have all kinds of chores that it for some reason feels compelled to do. Every so often, it enters dragon territory, but it's not there to kill any dragons but to retrieve someone's lost parrot or gather 500 milkwort bunches or deliver a parcel or whatever. Spinebuster isn't really inclined to kill this innocent little human, so she's hoping that after running out of errands, it'll maybe rethink this dragon-slaying quest. For now, she continues to watch the farmkid and try to figure out what dragon it aims to slay.