Hellfire Wyverns are so named for their foul tempers and fiery visages. Their social structure places all females above all males, due to superior physical characteristics and violent dispositions. Forced subservience of the males causes them to become vicious, petty, antisocial, and passive-aggressive compared to the aggressive and social females. However, orphaned hatchlings raised by foster parents of another species can develop surprisingly even tempers and mellow dispositions, proving that their defining unpleasant nature is, in fact, a learned behavior.

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.

The Traitor Queen Helleyes was ever a creature of tightly coiled anger. In the years, the centuries before her beloved mate, King Yule, made his grab for power over the Weyr, she snarled in her mind at the lesser beings as they scuttled about the cave. She is, and was, a determined, clever dragon, but though she could hide her boiling anger, though she could keep calm and even talk sweetly before the War, she at last could show her teeth, so to speak, when the fighting began. At last, she thought, she could release all that anger she kept within her, and maybe she'd finally be happy.

Then Flameflow and his followers turned on her and her mate. Then they were chased from their rightful place as leaders of the Weyr.

Now, her seething anger has only grown. Now, she supports her mate by snapping her teeth at those who resent him for causing their exile with his War. She remains a clever, loyal, determined dragon, guided by her love for her mate and her family.

And, of course, her anger.