Tercorn Dragons are typically friendly and peaceful in nature. Most individuals are eager to help, and show highly-cooperative behavior. However, they can easily feel disrespected by those unfamiliar with their customs. While the three long horns protruding from their heads may be fearsome, they serve mostly to scare off aggressors, and if an attack is deemed necessary for self-defense, it is never deadly in intention. Tercorn Dragons are quite social and active within their aquatic environment, but rarely emerge on land if not caring for unhatched offspring in hidden coastal caves.

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.

Second son of his family, Softspark is much more reflective than his elder brother, Softskies. When he was younger, he was fascinated by the past his father, Starsilver, refused to talk about. Starsilver was disfigured in some terrible injury long before Softspark's birth; though Softspark begged to hear about how through his entire hatchlinghood, his father never told him, only turned inward and quiet.

As he grew, Softspark met other dragons who came to the Weyr of Soft Flowers with histories marked by blood and violence, loss and pain. Softspark began to recognize familiar patterns in the friends he made who fled the Weyr of Flame before arriving here.

His father, too, cringes automatically back from flame; he, too, begins to tremble if he is too confined in a small space.

In his maturity, Softspark don't feel the need to ask his father about his past. Instead, he makes sure that his father's cave is always open and airy. He never raises his voice to a roar. He knows all he must.