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.

Child of the Dread Emperor, Asmodaios has been in a position of power since the moment he broke the shell. Servants and slaves alike scrambled to please the child prince, fearing his father's wrath should they disappoint his son, and as he grew into adulthood and gained his own strength they served him out of fear of his own great power as well. Yet Asmodaios is not half so fierce as his father, nor even as terrible as rumors make him out to be. Actually one of the gentlest of his father's spawn, he prefers to spend his days in the library, puzzling over the nature of morality and wondering whether his father's campaign against humanity is truly justified. This has begun to drive a rift between him and his once most beloved half-brother, Ashmedais, both parent and sibling insisting he ought to hate the race who slaughtered many of his kin, his mother among them. But as Asmodaios looks deeper and deeper into his mother's 'death,' he begins to wonder if not all is as he was told...