Pyralspite dragons are small, swift dragons that can breathe an intensely hot flame. They get their name from their resemblance to and affinity for garnets of the pyralspite family—they hoard such gems, preferring garnets that match their variant, and can tell the type of garnet from how it tastes. The red-violet variant is referred to as Almandine. Almandine Pyralspites are more aggressive than others of the same breed, and are very witty and love to mock or insult their opponents. They inhabit mountainous areas.

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.

Margaerite lives on a precipice of dizzying height, the base of which was constantly eroded by a rushing river for centuries. It's been long gone since she made the area her home, but she occasionally makes her way to the bottom to clear out the surrounding rock, making the cliff even taller. It's too dangerous to fly, so she rappels down and climbs up the face every time. Visitors who have looked down this cliff say that it must drop straight into the underworld, and it might as well because anyone who falls will not make it alive, even someone as agile as Margaerite. Still, rather than give her home a terrible and frightening name, she calls it the Great Dubstep Cliff. The nonsensical name has people scratching their heads, but when someone asks Margaerite why it's called the Great Dubstep Cliff, she simply says, "because it has one hell of a drop".